lolingram wrote:Xac
...which unfortunately span out on a bend and was written off.
All on it's own?
Unfortunately not, I was in the driver's seat at the time, doing 40mph in a 60mph zone coming from London Colney to Hatfield after leaving the M25 early because of the number of idiots that were there. The road slightly curves to the left (barely a bend really).
The back suddenly gave way, it was like I was driving on ice, I saw a fence in the headlights and thought "Fence, I'm going to hit that" and I did.
Slid along it with my side of the car, heading backwards.
That was the worst bit, not knowing what was going to happen.
Then the car hit a sign post, just behind my door which pushed the frame of the seat into my ribs, breaking two of them but also doing me a favour.
The car went up the sign until it was uprooted and gave way.
Rolling was actually quite fun, but I'd not like to do it again. I remember thinking "Weeee! This is fun. I could die now" before coming to a stop.
The top of the A post had taken the weight of the car as it fell from the sign post, and had I not been pushed over by the seat breaking my ribs, my head would be a lot flatter right now!
So a week in the dirtiest hospital I've been in (QE2 at WGC) where they were going to let me lie in a bed covered in blood, twigs and broken glass if my mum hadn't kicked up a fuss, and 36 stitches to my right ear (not from the accident, but from a thorn tree on the way up out of the ditch!) and I was sent home with pneumonia which they refered to as "a chest infection" which took about a month to kick.
Both times I've had an accident where I've gone off the road I was driving sensibly and well under the speed limit (the other time was in my first Xantia doing 30mph round a bend where the limit was 60).
If I'd been driving like a loon I'd expect it, but not when you're driving sensibly!
