Another frightening tale from the real world in the Daily Mail.
The report is a little flaky – the car is described variously as “this little car” (cutesy), a “Vauxhall Astro (sic)”, and a “Vauxhall Corsa” (got there eventually).
Let me paraphrase in plain English: an idiot driver came up an EXIT slip road to drive the wrong way up a dual carriageway, hit a lorry – causing it to jack knife across the road and turn over- and destroyed her own car.
If you look at the pictures, the damage is unbelievable. Of course, you won’t be able to see the chaos it caused on the roads while they cleared the wreckage – police had to close the road for 6 hours. Nor will the fact that the jack-knifed lorry (or the idiot in the Corsa) fortunately didn’t kill anyone.
The imbecile driving the Corsa has been charged with dangerous driving. According to the Mail, the Crown Office has said:
The Procurator Fiscal at Aberdeen has received a report concerning a 20-year-old woman in relation to an incident on the A90 on 22 March 2011.
The matter remains under consideration.
I can’t wait to see how this one pans out. I can almost hear the mitigating circumstances now.
As an aside, about 6 years ago I was driving along the A50 (a dual carriageway which is 4 lanes wide in places) from Derby to Nottingham. I was doing 70 mph when around a bend came another car driving in the outside lane the wrong way. I did things in the proper order:
- Shit myself
- Moved to the inside lane to slow down and make an emergency 999 call to the police to let them know
The phone rang. And rang. And rang. And rang. Then rang some more. No one answered the 999/emergency call!
I just hung up and thought “sod it”.
As of 2015, I have been unable to find any reference to this accident other than the original report. All the indications are that the stupid bitch who caused this got off lightly.