i've been lucky so far in that i've never seen many accidents - not even in my wake. my own scrapes are usually the worst. til today it literally came down to seeing some poor chav sitting on the edge of a ditch on a country road, staring forlornly at his upside-down saxo, also in the ditch. (stopped and checked things out with him, rescue truck was enroute)
today though, a good one, and one that has me baffled. didnt get to stop and stare, but from the amount of police and ambulance presence and the look of the scene, there was possible severe nastiness both inside and outside the car. sort of thing that makes me think i should start carrying the digicam in the car to illustrate better than words can.
this map should do for now. it's only a tiddler, dont worry
a jet black audi TT. resting neatly on it's right hand side A-pillar. all busted up quite badly, nearly in the middle of the carriageway, close to a smashed and almost horizontal light-up advertising hoarding (still lit!) that wasn't so much on the pavement as behind it, at the threshold of a branch of maplins.
upside down, smashed TT, not so unusual you might think, as its usually rich playboys and other dislikable fools with more money than skills that buy and abuse them (the only other TT story i know involves a drunken rich guy driving one home from the ex-work nightclub and being found in a ditch by colleagues living in the same direction as him when they left 90 minutes later, at the end of some v-e-r-y long alcohol induced skidmarks suggesting he was three figures up when he stacked it. on a near-straight road).
the unusual and notable thing was more the sheer amount of emergency services presence. many police cars, more than i know the immediately local force to have, lots of officers wandering about, and at least one ambulance in attendance. it was visible aways back, from a crossing i had to stop at, and produced visions of grandeur - i was expecting that someone had travelled up from lozells, started some sh*t and got a blood bath as reward. a little too much reaction for a single crashed car.
and then there was the position of it. as noted on the map, this area is a bit of a bottleneck, with the A5127 (towards city centre, M6, A38(M)) and A4040 (outer ring road) plus a busy local B-road all coming together. it's not so bad heading home (as i was) compared to the insane mornings, but you still wouldn't count on reliably peaking at more than 25mph (indicated) through this section and the immediate surrounds. that you could tip a reliant robin at that speed, let enough get together enough force to turn a TT, is something else - they must have been doing a fair whack ....... somehow. there's not exactly a great deal of acceleration room even if the road was clear, and there's an obvious choice between the side road which carries straight on, and the main one which curves round sharply (25 is ample, 30 or 35 for thrills) to follow the roundabout - sharper and far more evil than the map suggests). guess numpty tried to go the hard way, strong off the line, and failed.
I just hope no-one was standing in front of that advert board when he smacked into it, as the remaining traces might not bear looking at. with the timing of it, and all the bus stops (and many people waiting at them), the consequences of losing it a few yards to the right, or a few to left would have been far worse
! I would have s**t myself if I had seen that. I guess its too late now to go have a look now 
. But you make a good point. Why go soo fast in the rain. 
