Talking of near misses

as Molly was... or should that be "near Mrs" ;-)

I was happily driving down the new section of the A130 (for any that knows
it) anyway it's a long wide dual carriageway, I'm in my Renault Scenic, fast
approaching a truck full of crushed cars.. you know one of those rough
looking high open top ones containing probably ten or so flattened motors.

So, I look in my mirror see a bike in the outside lane, but loads of room
for me to get out and back in again before the bike arrives, as I pull out a
bonnet off one of the cars flies off and is standing upright in front of the
passenger side of my car, I brake quite hard bearing in mind the bike behind
me an I hit it dead flat at about 70mph with a thud, I look in the mirror no
sign of it and I am carrying in by wind force on the front of my car.

I slide over to the hard shoulder and said bonnet falls on the floor, now I
reason it was that bikers lucky day, and mine because after I cleaned loads
of paint (from bonnet) of the front of my car and including the light lenses
with some autosol there was no damage apart from a minor scratch from where
the bonnet catch hit.

So alls well that ends well ))

D

 

What about the truck with an unstable load - isn't there a law against it? I
would have wanted a little 'discussion' with the driver.

Rick

 

True but I had to ditch the bonnet then when I did catch up and overtake the
truck I tried to remember his reg number as he took a slip road,
unfortunatly he had different plates on the front and back and I couldn't
get a clear view at either.

D

 

Hmm, and where are the precious so-called "safety cameras" to catch this
sort of operator?

Rick