Car crash
We've just witnessed a car crash. In fact, you might say, we were the very near neighbours of this car crash as it happened right next to us in the opposite lane on the A59.
Doug reported it to the police, as they were pretty much blocking the road to traffic and given our names as witnesses, but I'm not sure whether they'll need to talk to us.
I don't know how these things work, whether it depends on whether the two car drivers agree that it was a no-fault RTA - if that was the case, I'd imagine the police would be happy to let it go and not get involved.
I'm just grateful we didn't get involved in the crash - if Doug had decided not to wait and drive round the mini-roundabout as was his right to, we'd have been the ones crashed into and probably me and Jacob in hospital having been blindsided at about 35 miles an hour by a v powerful car. If the car it had collided with instead had been going faster and been more powerful, it might well have pushed the other car right into us, this time with Doug and Sam in the firing line.
All in all, a salutory lesson about how NOT to drive round mini-roundabouts.
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Yikes, trust you are all OK. Was it at the junction near the sugar beet factory? Can be slippery at this time of year - wet root vegetables: a major contributory factor in the Yorkshire road traffic accident. Take care.
it was the junction of the A59 and Beckfield Lane - a car turning left out of the Lane didn't give priority to a car coming from the right. That said, the car from the right should have stopped as we actually had the priority, but it was going far too fast and didn't even slow down at the junction, let alone stop for us. As I said, good job Doug hesitated, or it'd been us that would have been crashed into.
As it was, the car coming out of Beckfield Lane was totalled - its very lucky no-one was hurt, but they were all a bit shocked. Doug was having to ring the police and call recovery vehicles for them, none of them could remember if they had a mobile phone with them.
Doug was rather shocked when we got home - it was rather nasty incident to be so close to. Luckily, we just got a bit of stray car pinging off our windscreen and no damage done.
We haven't heard owt from the police, so I'll take it that they're putting it down as a no-fault RTA. Which is a shame - the woman in the big car who caused the accident needs her arse kicking for taking that junction like that. And she had kids in the back of her car, she's got no bloody excuse for such crass driving.
Crikey, I'm glad it wasn't you.
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