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<font color='#000080'>Ok, you know sometimes you do something silly, or something is pushed upon you and your life flashes before your eyes? Well it just happened to me.
Coming back from Deep Blue in Tynemouth (bottles filled and ready to go for Mull), we were pootling along at somwhere around 50, coming up to a 30mph and roundabout being the fourth car in a line (red thing, possibly a megane, a corsa, an old volvo and then us).
Suddenly all i see is brakelights and clouds of grey smoke as the volvo infront of us goes across the road. We go from 50 to zero in what seems to be bloody miles, missing the back of the volvo and the stone wall of the farm house garden. We actually ended up past the volvo, on the grass verge. Scary huh?
Now consider i have two full 10 l cylinders in the boot. If we had gone into the back of the volvo i dont think i would have felt a thing. I know that something weighing 10kg in the boot can come forwards with a hell of a force in an accident, you just assume it is never gonna happen to you.
From now on, they go on the floor behing the driver/passenger seats.
When i opened the boot and showed the copper what was in there he said we were very very lucky.
And you know why we stopped? Cos the woman in the first car wanted eggs from the farm house and had driven past. She did an emergency stop for frigging eggs!
<font color='#000080'>Ok, you know sometimes you do something silly, or something is pushed upon you and your life flashes before your eyes? Well it just happened to me.
Coming back from Deep Blue in Tynemouth (bottles filled and ready to go for Mull), we were pootling along at somwhere around 50, coming up to a 30mph and roundabout being the fourth car in a line (red thing, possibly a megane, a corsa, an old volvo and then us).
Suddenly all i see is brakelights and clouds of grey smoke as the volvo infront of us goes across the road. We go from 50 to zero in what seems to be bloody miles, missing the back of the volvo and the stone wall of the farm house garden. We actually ended up past the volvo, on the grass verge. Scary huh?
Now consider i have two full 10 l cylinders in the boot. If we had gone into the back of the volvo i dont think i would have felt a thing. I know that something weighing 10kg in the boot can come forwards with a hell of a force in an accident, you just assume it is never gonna happen to you.
From now on, they go on the floor behing the driver/passenger seats.
When i opened the boot and showed the copper what was in there he said we were very very lucky.
And you know why we stopped? Cos the woman in the first car wanted eggs from the farm house and had driven past. She did an emergency stop for frigging eggs!