BigSilverEstate
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- Joined
- Apr 24, 2012
- Messages
- 474
- Location
- London
- Car
- 2011 E350cdi Sport Estate, and the wife's car: 2008 Audi A4 Avant 2.0tdi
As a quick bit of background, I live on a side street just off a fairly major thoroughfare in South East London. Directly across the main road is another street which has bollards at the end so only the emergency services can get onto it.
So this afternoon I was getting my older daughter (not quite 3) strapped into her seat about to run an errand with her in my wife's golf. Her seat was on the drivers side so I was in the middle of the road.
I looked to my right and see a tatty Polo steaming down the side street on the other side of the main road, pursued by a patrol car and showing no sign of slowing down for the bollards. I judged that I did not have time to get my daughter out of her seat and to safety so she would be safest where she was in the car. I closed the door and got onto the pavement.
Sure enough the idiots blasted through the bollards, hit side on an unsuspecting Beetle driving along the main road and somehow managed to get across to our street before losing control (blown tyre) and slamming into a bollard at the side of the road and a parked car. The miscreants tore off in different directions on foot with police in pursuit. One of them headed straight for our local park which we had left half an hour earlier and where there were lots of small children attending a birthday party.
All in all a scary experience as I was very worried in case either the car could have lost control further up our street and hit the car my daughter was in, or that things could have become desperate once they were in pursuit on foot and guns become involved. As a postscript, the owners of the Beetle (i believe) came back to pick up their car this evening, one of them a heavily pregnant woman.
So many vulnerable people put at risk by some cowardly idiots protecting their own skins - made my blood boil.
So this afternoon I was getting my older daughter (not quite 3) strapped into her seat about to run an errand with her in my wife's golf. Her seat was on the drivers side so I was in the middle of the road.
I looked to my right and see a tatty Polo steaming down the side street on the other side of the main road, pursued by a patrol car and showing no sign of slowing down for the bollards. I judged that I did not have time to get my daughter out of her seat and to safety so she would be safest where she was in the car. I closed the door and got onto the pavement.
Sure enough the idiots blasted through the bollards, hit side on an unsuspecting Beetle driving along the main road and somehow managed to get across to our street before losing control (blown tyre) and slamming into a bollard at the side of the road and a parked car. The miscreants tore off in different directions on foot with police in pursuit. One of them headed straight for our local park which we had left half an hour earlier and where there were lots of small children attending a birthday party.
All in all a scary experience as I was very worried in case either the car could have lost control further up our street and hit the car my daughter was in, or that things could have become desperate once they were in pursuit on foot and guns become involved. As a postscript, the owners of the Beetle (i believe) came back to pick up their car this evening, one of them a heavily pregnant woman.
So many vulnerable people put at risk by some cowardly idiots protecting their own skins - made my blood boil.