Mood:
accident pronenot once, but TWICE.. I am still reeling.
took Homer n Dallas to dog class tonight, Kayleigh came with us too. We set off, been driving on the motorway for about five minutes when torrential rain smothered us like a blanket, it was that bad we had to slow right down to 45 mph, couldnt see a damn thing in front of us nor behind. the road surface, if you could call it that, was totally obscured by the water on top of it. Just got used to that, we were in the first lane coz I'd slowed right down, then up at the side of me was a big truck, the driver was obviously unaware of us in our 'lab cab' and started to move over into our lane OMG.. I couldnt do anything, had to swerve onto the hard shoulder, cant help wondering what would have happened if there were no hard shoulder aloing that strtetch. ok so there I am struggling to drive on the hard shoulder in the rain, desperately trying to get infront of the truck that could very well have been our downfall. finally managed that and at least the truck driver did actually aknowledge then that he had almost killed us.
peedled along to class then when every bone in my body wanted me to turn the car round and come home.
Homer n Dallas did well and enjoyed the class. home time came and I never gave the near mniss any thought. set off for home, ok to get home we have to drive along three motorways, the weather was still quite nasty, but thankfully not as much traffic to cope with. We'd got onto the last motorway, about ten mins away from home now. Got speed up and into the outside lane, then OMG.. SMASSHHHH saw this HOUSEBRICK hit my bonnet, half an inch away from the windscreen. All I can think is.. either someone was stood on the footbridge we had just driven under, or part of sed bridge had fallen off, right on top of us! In shock I pulled over onbto the hard shoulder that had saved us once tonite and called the police
the very nice police lady calmed me down and sent a car out to check the area. meanwhile I was asked if the car was driveable, well I had been out of the car once to try and asses the damage, but the traffic was tooo close for comfort and a lot of trucks were about, so they told me to drive home if I was ok to drive, then asses the damage and they would send someone out to see me.
Posted by mica_holcroft
at 12:12 AM BST
