Bad Accident On A1 Today

[Mike 700]

Originally Posted by Palmer

I had to go collect the safe key from someone's house cos they had gone home with it by accident. They lived on the edge of dogsthorpe so rather than go all the way back through town i thought id go through what little of dogsthorpe is left and join the parkways home.

Came past peterborough tip and turned on the little bit of bypass before the main parkway. Glanced over to the other side of the road and i saw bits of car / bike everywhere... then a man in full leathers sprawled out across the carriageway...... not moving.

I thought of turning around at the next roundabout and helping but that little stretchyof oad is just before the thorney bypass so very heavy traffic. It must of just happened because there was virtually no traffic behind.

Makes u think man.

A couple of years ago, over the Christmas period, I was working for a Building Society and I had been asked by the Branch Manager if I would take the safe keys home with me as he was not in the next day, and he knew that I was always in early enough to be there before the crowds came in.

What he'd forgotten was that as a Regional Manager, I wasn't used to having safe keys with me, so after about 7 miles into my journey I remembered that I had left the keys on the bed, so I pulled in and turned the car round to head home, when a white Volvo estate car with a blue light on top came chasing after me and pulled in front of me nearly causing an accident.

He thought I'd been drinking and had spotted him lurking , and turned around to avoid him - I was teetotal anyway.

After I'd explained the situation we both laughed and he escorted me home to get the keys, blue light flashing all the way.

[gjd]

Hello

A lot of the time when you're sitting in a jam on the Motorway, there's some poor sod sat in the remains of his car. The slow procession past the carnage is always a sobering experience.

Once, coming back from Canterbury, we sat on the M2 for 5 hours. Lots of motorists were complaining and muttering (usual Daily Mail type stuff - "something should be done"). Then it turned out that a biker had gone under a truck. They closed the motorway so that the rescue workers could do their jobs without the risk of being hit by a passing car, and the opposite carriageway also was closed to allow the air ambulance to land.

It was a quiet, reflective and careful drive back up to London after that.