Wednesday, 13 March 2002

That was close

I just almost had a car crash.

Michi and I were on our way home from work. The weather is pretty nasty currently. It’s raining quite a bit. At one point we had to pass a tow-car which was blocking most of our side of the street. The woman who was driving in front of me passed the tow-car and then stayed on the lane she had used to pass the car. The lane was a left-turn only lane but she slowed down so I thought she wanted to take a left there. So I accelerated again to normal cruising speed and just as I was about to pass her on her right she suddenly swerved right, back onto the lane I was driving in. I barely managed to dodge her car by hitting the brakes hard and swerving to the right myself. Even the tires squealed. The road was very slippery from the rain which made it even harder to avoid hitting her.

Well I managed. I’m very glad there was nobody to my right cause there was no way I could’ve dodged both cars. Unfortunately I don’t have lightning reflexes when it comes to hitting the button for the horn. Otherwise I would’ve honked her off badly, ‘cause I’m not sure she even realized what she did. I’m so mad at that woman. She almost ruined my evening. And that would’ve been even worse than the damage she would have done to Foo (that’s our car). My evening is sacred.

  Posted by Edda at 19:29 CET