Deano's luck strikes again

[Dean Lofthouse]

Day went ok until I went to put the MEWP away and got it stuck, managed to get it out and order 10 tonne of hardcore for tomorrow so wasn't in the best of moods.

 

Travelling home then (infact 200 yards from home at the bottom of the hill) I came round a corner at 30 mph to see a car setting off to pull out of a drive on my left, the car stopped so I kept going.

 

Next second I was almost ontop of the carwhen it lurch forward directly into my path and I was heading full tilt straght towards the drivers door.

 

I knew if I hit the door the driver would be seriously injured, so I yanked my steering to to right as hard as I could nearly putting the landy on two wheels, didn't have time to brake. I then closed my eyes expecting a huge bang and yanked the steering back left again to avoid a tree as I was now over the other side of the road off road.

 

I ended up squeezing between two trees and in a car park after going over a grassed island

 

I stayed calm, got out to see if the driver of the car was ok, it turned out it was an old woman who couldn't apologise enough and had stamped on the throttle rather than the brake.

 

I just said that I'm ok if she is ok. I didn't feel an impact but my tyres had gone down her bumper and just left very bad rubber marks.

 

I just told her to reverse up, go back inside and have a nice cup of tea and try to forget about it.

 

She thanked me for the evasive action I took and said she watched the landrover "dancing"

 

She was very lucky she didn't say hello to husky

 

She asked if I was ok and I just smiled and said, worse things happen to me every day love I am immune from shock

[slack ma girdle]

I see that the trouble magnet is in good working order.

[Lloyd Jerrey]

Good on ya mate, top bloke!

[ecolojim]

jeez! glad you're ok and nobody was injured!

[tommer9]

I see that the trouble magnet is in good working order.

 

[Stevie Mac]

Should have given her your business card!

[SJH]

Sounds like she was lucky mate, theres nowt worse when they stop and then pull out at the last minute, I remember being in my mates car when a woman did just that, she just sat there looking straight at us as we hit her car full impact, she was that big and her door was that dented she couldn't get out, she was fine just really shook up.

Glad she was ok mate.

[bob]

Are you off back with a bottle of t cut tomorrow

go on you know you should:thumbup:

[Dean Lofthouse]

She can buy her own t cut Bob, she knocked a 1000 miles of rubber off my sidewalls

[Lorry thompson]

you dont have much luck with the oldies do you mate