Just wasted a good deal of the morning watching the unfolding drama of a Road Traffic Incident on our doorstep (almost literally) …
Sitting in the front room reading the paper and finishing my breakfast cup of coffee, when I heard the approaching sound of an emergency vehicle siren. This is not an unusual thing for us, so I wasn’t really paying much notice — until the siren stopped rather abruptly, followed by a loud bang.
Hurried outside (naturally!) to find a police car and another car looking a bit too closely arranged at the top of Roy’s drive, next door.
Fortunately, it was soon apparent nobody was badly hurt, but someone was clearly stuck in the civilian vehicle: the police driver involved, a passing motorist and two cyclists leaning into the car and talking to someone.
In due course, more police and an ambulance arrived. After a considerable time an old lady managed to struggle out of the car and was pushed in a wheelchair to the ambulance (probably badly shaken, but not much harmed).
Eventually, a couple of Egerton recovery trucks appeared and removed the two cars (click to see a few snaps)
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Apr 30, 2011 – Police Car Prang |
My guess would be that the plod was proceeding fairly rapidly eastward and the old dear turned west out of Princess Drive. Probably she looked right, saw empty road, looked left and decided she could go, but failed to look right again before doing so.