I suppose I should have stopped.
Post A levels went with 2 friends youth hostelling from our homes in Somerset to Aviemore, Scotland. They met 2 German girls on holiday with their parents and our holiday plans changed to match theirs.
On the last night before we return home the Germans are in a holiday cottage in Oban and the nearest hostel we could find was Crianlarich. After an evening watching tv in Oban(me)and my friends doing things in the bedrooms we had to dash back before the hostel door was locked at 11pm. I had cut it a bit fine and it being June it was dusk. My car at the time was the original Fiat Panda and one of that car's shortfalls was an ability to corner at speed.
Belting along as fast as I could I see some red lights in the distance. They seem to be stationary but about 4' apart vertically. Odd methinks and slows down. When we reach the lights we discover a Land Rover on it's side in a ditch where it had gone straight on while the road turned to the right at a degree that the Panda would not have made at the speed I had been doing.
My friends had a narrow escape too. The girl's father was very traditional and when their parents came home from their night out their mother made such a noise coming up the path they had plenty of time to make themselves decent if needs be.
(jvz, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 9:07, Reply)