I've just got home from our local IAM Group meeting. Whilst driving home passed the Hull Royal Infirmary a Calibra travelling in the opposite direction suddenly swerved across the road mounted a Pelican crossing refuge in the middle of the road and took out the railings and traffic lights which came crashing down onto the road. All of this plus the car came to rest about six feet away from me.
Once I'd collected my thoughts I put my hazards on and walked over to the car to see if anyone was injured (the front of the car was practically non existent) but amazingly 5 youths climbed out with no apparent injuries. All five of them were of (how can I put it diplomatically) Eastern Euoropean descent. I walked back to my car got my mobile out and rang 999 then they started threatening me not to ring the police as they had no insurance (and probably no license or tax either).
Thankfully the police were on the scene in minutes and rounded up four of them.
Whilst telling the officer about what had happend and how they had threatend me not to ring the police he had a big grin on his face as they apparently could'nt understand english.
Why the car swerved I don't know. Perhaps drink or drugs were involved. No other vehicles were involved.
The uncanny thing was the guest speaker at the meeting was from a insurance broker and one of the topics was uninsured drivers
Mike
