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Location: Lincolnshire
Joined: Oct 2004
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We were driving along the A46 yesterday when an ambulance came screaming up on the other side of the road. Naturally, our long line of traffic slowed right down, failry quickly I might say, in order to move over and let it go past.
Stephen applied his brakes like the car in front of us and then, to his horror, realised that the car behind us had obviously spotted our brakes go on, swerved onto the side of the road, hit a rut, gone over onto its roof and then slid across the road
We waited for the Police to arrive before we left ...and also 3 fire engines, 2 ambulances and the ambicopter
The chap wasn't wearing a seat belt but he was awake ....still don't know how badly he was hurt.
Stephen said that the chap had been coming up right behind us all the way from Newark ..a pointless excercise as we were in a long queue of traffic ...and we had JUST gone through a village with a speed restriction. We suppose that he was speeding up coming out of the village and got distracted and looked at the ambulance, when he looked back he realised he couldn't brake in time
Mind you, thank goodness he didn't ram straight into the back of us I suppose