Losing your child on the Motorway.
I wasn’t born yet when this happened to my brother but have heard the family tell this story on many an occasion.

Mum, dad, and brothers were traveling on the motorway going on holiday. It was quite a long trip and being bored of fighting, the boys were all sleeping in the back.
The eldest who was about 6 at the time was sat curled up with a pillow having a doze. He was leaning against the door of the car all sleepy and comfy.
This is back in the olden days of not having by law to wear a seat belt, and there were no child locks fitted on the doors.

Guess what happened next?

Yep. The door flew open and my brother went flying out of the car, 70 miles per hour, ON THE MOTORWAY!
Parents screamed, brothers screamed, and they swerved over and screeched to a halt.
Luckily for him he was little and floppy, and somehow kept hold of his pillow. Also luckily they were traveling in the slow lane so he went skidding off onto the hard shoulder.

He was retrieved, shocked and stunned but perfectly Ok.
It makes me feel sick thinking of what could have happened that day.
I still gladly have 3 older brothers.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 22 Apr 2010, 22:42, 2 replies)

Yikes!!
Glad he's ok
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 9:51, closed)

My God!
That must have been horrific for all concerned. The chances of living through that are surely tiny.

I'm off to weld the car door shut!
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:40, closed)