Yeah
- years ago, driving my trusty
(cough) company Metro
(with it's lovely 1.4 non-turbo oil burner engine) out from Pocklington to Whitby.
.
Going over the same bit of road I had done umpteen times before, I found myself driving down the left hand grass verge on a left hand bend
(which is a tad odd).
.
Being inexperienced at the time, I jumped on the brakes
- which resulted in the car catapulting across the road to the other grass verge
(because the wheels on the road gripped, and the ones on the grass didn't.
.
).
Hit the opposite verge almost head on, bounced up in the air, span around about 225degrees and landed with the front wheels parked up against the grass verge and in the road, and the back wheels in a ditch
- would have been a great bit of parking had it been planned
Turned the engine off, got out.
.
looked down the road and there was a Luton van about 600yds away.
.
had he been a bit closer, he'd have hit me either smack on the passenger side, or smack on the drivers side.
.
Oh and, FWIW, when the garage did the damage assessment
- they found that the front subframe was split and in two halves.
.
but had been like that for
'some time' since the break was well rusted.
.
I have a feeling it had finally parted company that morning, which explains why the car felt so
'vague' and wanted to wander off the road in random directions.
'course, having only been driving for 6 months, guess who got the blame on that one?
