andy_k
MB Enthusiast
Ho hum, we got up reasonably early this morning to head off to meet up with Matt and a few others at the Top Gear studios. Annie had decided that if we headed off early we could get a bit of shopping done before the filming - she keeps mentioning this "Christmas" thing and using words like "getting" and "organised".
So with patchy thick fog to contend with we were driving over the south downs in reasonable traffic on a single carriageway road doing about 50 mph.
In a particularly foggy section I just happened to notice in my door mirror some moron in a BMW overtaking everything in his path. No sooner had I said to Annie look at that silly c**t as he roared past us and the two cars in front that we heard the loud bang and saw bits of BMW flying everywhere - yep, he'd met a likeminded idiot in a Mondeo doing just the same thing but coming from the opposite direction.
The guy he was in the middle of overtaking (2 cars in front of us) took a fairly hefty sideswipe from the BMW and the remains of the Mondeo which left a fairly messy heap of metal in the middle of the road. The guy in front of us did his best to stop but managed to add to the pile.
Us being that extra 50 yards back provided the luxury of a little "thinking time" I could have stopped but doubted that the guy behind would have made it (good judgement call as he hit the guy who was in front of us up the rear) so I headed for the "soft option" a nice grass verge and a hedge - note to all drivers ABS is less than effective on wet grass
We missed the pile of mangled metal and escaped without injury (slightly shaken) or any apparent damage to the car - it's being checked over tonight but we drove home just fine.
The emergency services did a grand job picking up bits of idiot and their selected modes of transport. In all 12 cars managed to run into each other through either slow reaction times, crap brakes or just sheer stupidity.
we lost the day hanging around getting cold, waiting to give witness statements. We didn't get to Top Gear and we didn't get any shopping done.
Andy
So with patchy thick fog to contend with we were driving over the south downs in reasonable traffic on a single carriageway road doing about 50 mph.
In a particularly foggy section I just happened to notice in my door mirror some moron in a BMW overtaking everything in his path. No sooner had I said to Annie look at that silly c**t as he roared past us and the two cars in front that we heard the loud bang and saw bits of BMW flying everywhere - yep, he'd met a likeminded idiot in a Mondeo doing just the same thing but coming from the opposite direction.
The guy he was in the middle of overtaking (2 cars in front of us) took a fairly hefty sideswipe from the BMW and the remains of the Mondeo which left a fairly messy heap of metal in the middle of the road. The guy in front of us did his best to stop but managed to add to the pile.
Us being that extra 50 yards back provided the luxury of a little "thinking time" I could have stopped but doubted that the guy behind would have made it (good judgement call as he hit the guy who was in front of us up the rear) so I headed for the "soft option" a nice grass verge and a hedge - note to all drivers ABS is less than effective on wet grass
We missed the pile of mangled metal and escaped without injury (slightly shaken) or any apparent damage to the car - it's being checked over tonight but we drove home just fine.
The emergency services did a grand job picking up bits of idiot and their selected modes of transport. In all 12 cars managed to run into each other through either slow reaction times, crap brakes or just sheer stupidity.
we lost the day hanging around getting cold, waiting to give witness statements. We didn't get to Top Gear and we didn't get any shopping done.
Andy
