07-04-2020, 10:33 AM
(07-04-2020, 08:41 AM)Dave Wortley Wrote: Sorry to disappoint everyone but I didn't hit a police car. It was a Zephyr with the enormous aircraft runway type bonnet as in Z Cars. It was driven by a poor bloke who had finished his night shift and was on his way to hospital to visit his ill wife so he was a little distracted and tired when he attempted to drive into a side road right across the front of my chummy. Chummy damage was one kingpin fractured in 2 places, bent front mudguard, bent wheel, elongated axle eye and dented headlight. Damage to Zephyr was front bumper and number plate. The chummy kingpin was one of those dangerous incorrectly overhardened type ones.Decades ago, driving up the M1 in very windy conditions, I was met by the sight of a man standing between the central Armco barriers while wrestling the with the aircraft-carrier-sized bonnet that had somehow been ripped off his Zepher. Whether this amusing sight caused a 'distraction accident' I can't say, but it certainly caused me to laugh out loud.