I don't think it reads especially heavily - it has heavy bits, but then it is about car crashes, kinda goes with the territory. I've had a couple of very minor shunts, and one proper car crash - in bad light one morning, on a rat-run, failed to spot a Give Way sign and went straight into the side of a van. Split second earlier, it would have T-boned us instead. Spun my little Metro right round, windscreen popped out, never did find my glasses. Thanks to the wonder of seatbelts, nothing worse than a few bruises. And a few months of waking up with the sound of the impact in my dreaming ears. Thanks to the wonder of the AA's legal assistance, just 3 points and about 120 quid fine.
I used to have a motorbike... Dropped it a few times, to no great ill effect. Once I entered a roundabout too fast and when it was heeled over enough to cope with the centrifugal force (which does not exist) the footpegs touched down and off we went into a slide - that's the one with the best slow-mo effect, I was watching all the sparks off the bike's exhaust pipes as I slid along the tarmac behind it. Then there was the time I turned into the country lane down to my friend's place, to find half the carriageway dug up and the rest full of car. Managed to go between the 6 foot deep pit and the car, but his trailer was just sligtly wider... And the only one that ever put me in hospital, and then only long enough to get a tetanus shot etc, was when a panda car did a u-turn without looking from a concealed position - behind a van - and whacked me. The van driver enjoyed testifying against the coppers. So did the local coppers, coz the panda car was a Bristol one, a mile outside the city limits.
Bikes are a lot of fun, if you're an immortal. For anybody else, they're just a quick way to die or, worse, get yourself crippled. I'd get one again. I won't stop Jack if he wants one, when he's old enough, but I'll try to make sure he gets proper training and _really_ understands how fugging dangerous it all is.
I've had a couple of very minor shunts, and one proper car crash - in bad light one morning, on a rat-run, failed to spot a Give Way sign and went straight into the side of a van. Split second earlier, it would have T-boned us instead.
Spun my little Metro right round, windscreen popped out, never did find my glasses. Thanks to the wonder of seatbelts, nothing worse than a few bruises. And a few months of waking up with the sound of the impact in my dreaming ears.
Thanks to the wonder of the AA's legal assistance, just 3 points and about 120 quid fine.
I used to have a motorbike...
Dropped it a few times, to no great ill effect.
Once I entered a roundabout too fast and when it was heeled over enough to cope with the centrifugal force (which does not exist) the footpegs touched down and off we went into a slide - that's the one with the best slow-mo effect, I was watching all the sparks off the bike's exhaust pipes as I slid along the tarmac behind it.
Then there was the time I turned into the country lane down to my friend's place, to find half the carriageway dug up and the rest full of car. Managed to go between the 6 foot deep pit and the car, but his trailer was just sligtly wider...
And the only one that ever put me in hospital, and then only long enough to get a tetanus shot etc, was when a panda car did a u-turn without looking from a concealed position - behind a van - and whacked me. The van driver enjoyed testifying against the coppers. So did the local coppers, coz the panda car was a Bristol one, a mile outside the city limits.
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hoiho told me that he once did a 360 spin on the M6.
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