Feeling very lucky to be alive

pollypenny

Thank god you were all on the beach.

We can all empathise with your feelings of 'what if', marisco.

Hope you don't have a tussle with your insurance company and can enjoy finding a new car.

SailorSam

A Newie bumping a thread that's a year old ?
I think we've got ourselves a spammer.

pink_princess

Yep, the saddo has bumped at least three of Marisco's threads, and that is just the one's I have in my subscriptions!

jackieb

marisco wrote: »

A trip to the beach with my sons came very close to ending in disaster yesterday. We had parked up along the seafront at the end of a long row of cars. According to witnesses who saw us head off, the accident happened less than 10 minutes later. A pick up lorry with a hiab crane was speeding along the road. As it came near to my car the hiab, which had not been properly secured by the driver, swung out and smashed through it pushing it along the road into 2 parked cars and up onto a grass verge. The damage done was horrendous, the rear and side windows had been blown out, the front and back were completely crushed, the sunroof had caved in. We arrived back an hour later to see police, ambulance and blood emergency services all around. Whilst they were treating me for shock it was made clear that all I had lost was a metal box. Had we been in the car at the time of impact we would have been lucky to have survived. Sorry to bore you all with all this, I just needed to let it all out somewhere.

I'm glad you're all okay.

I remember a fatal accident where several people died, some decapitated, when a crane that was on the back of the lorry, swung out while it was being driven along a road. I think it was 1995.

My husband witnessed a fatal accident a couple of weeks ago. He was feet from where a woman went under the wheels of a lorry. He's still not sleeping and he's not driven since.

jackieb

Sorry, never noticed it was an old thread.

itsanne

pink_princess wrote: »

Yep, the saddo has bumped at least three of Marisco's threads, and that is just the one's I have in my subscriptions!

That's more sinister than the usual troll.

notanewuser

itsanne wrote: »

That's more sinister than the usual troll.

He's now back as someone else quoting verses from the bible.

Lunatic on the loose, it seems.

jackieb

They've been PPR'd.

PasturesNew

jackieb wrote: »

... several people died, some decapitated....

I had a shock when I was working for a local photographer some 10 years or so after that .... in charge of the image library and stumbled across full res colour photos of the aftermath of those deaths: the entire vehicle and images of all the interior (and the blood etc), all close ups .... you can't unsee things.

jackieb

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had a shock when I was working for a local photographer some 10 years or so after that .... in charge of the image library and stumbled across full res colour photos of the aftermath of those deaths: the entire vehicle and images of all the interior (and the blood etc), all close ups .... you can't unsee things.

Must've been awful. I was in hospital after having my daughter and I just remember the story being in the paper that Sunday.

My husband got out of his car to look under the lorry to see where the woman had went and I know the state he's still in.