My life and my families was nearly cut short last summer due to a very disturbing freak occurrence, As it was a nice summer night I decided to take a scenic route home after being out for a meal. Well every road is a scenic one around here, but this one was still a detour, but being in a particularly good mood I relished it.
As I drove over a series of undulating small hills something came over the brow of one of them. It was a tractor on its way to a show that was taking place the next day. Nothing unusual about that, but it did give a slight wobble as it came over the brow of the hill. I quickly noticed that this wobble was getting larger, and within a few seconds the tractor was weaving from one side of the road to another. It didnt slow down at all either.
It was all going to be a matter of timing. I managed to swerve on to the grass verge as the tractor came right at me on my side of the road. It came to a stop way down the road so it really was out of control. For the next few days I was not myself.
A few weeks later someone was killed by a wagon that swerved randomly onto the wrong side of the road near here. The driver was foreign and on his phone apparently. Lifes a joke...
Its all " chance " you see. Life that is, but thats a post for my other blog.
They shouldn't be driving tractors if they can't handle them. That truly is horrible and frightening.
ReplyDeleteIt was like seeing death coming in slow motion !
DeleteI expect some kind of mechanical failure. The man drove tractors for a living. This makes it all the more worrying.
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