Glad you're still with us !!
Awareness is the key to LBC survival on roads packed with nincompoops !
Dave (trust no other drivers) Fox
At 03:01 PM 8/4/98 -0400, GuyWeller@aol.com wrote:
>I was out in the Midget thisafternoon when I caught up with a stationery
queue
>of traffis on a narrow (2 lane) and twisty bit of road. Being at the back of
>the queue and just round a blind corner I held back a couple of car lengths
>from the car in front.
>As I glanced in the mirror I saw a big artic truck come round the bend behind
>me in a hell of a hurry ! He hit the brakes and I hit the throttle at about
>the same moment ! I shot forward and swerved onto the verge and he slid past
>just inches from me and ploughed into the back of the car in front of me. He
>was so close I couln't open the door to get out!
>Fortunately no one was hurt, although the car he smashed was shortened by a
>foot or so. I was so close to being the filling in a non vegetarian sandwich
>!!!
>Guy
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