If you have a good guardian angel...

[timachone]

Hey guys,

last wednesday it was one of those evenings you finished working and the plan to go for 2 or 3 hours to your Mustang for going on.

But sometimes things never turn out the way you expect... On the highway suddenly a car drops in from the service lane. With an estimated speed of 1 mph! I was on perhaps 70 mph and had hard to brake. But I cleared the situation with a hefty heartbeat, watched back through the mirror, saw some lights coming and... BOOOM! In the next moment I was tossed in right circle into the sidebarriers of the highway. Another car tossed in, too. Next was to leave fast enough before any other car could drive with 70 mph in front of me. And then I was brought to a hospital...

Fortunately I only have some muscular injuries from the toss, no future injuries - from now. My car has totally gone but it rescued me - thank goodness!

You could get through the articles pictures to get an idea of the situation. The pewter Opel station wagon is mine...

http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.b27-bei-filderstadt-schwerer-unfall-fordert-drei-verletzte.5bf0ffaf-6a1b-49eb-8e2f-5923f553f8f3.html

http://www.esslinger-zeitung.de/region/polizei_artikel,-drei%C2%A0verletzte-bei-unfall-auf-der-b-27-_arid,2032088.html

This shows you once more that you could be innocently involved in a disaster anytime.

From now on I have a new slogan:

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly!

Take care, guys!

 

[Austin Vert]

Hey Tim,

You are a very fortunate man. I am very pleased to hear that you are OK.

You are surely destined to do great things on this Earth in your lifetime.

God bless,

Greg.

 

[timachone]

Greg,

thank you for your warm and hearty words!

Take care, buddy!

 

[Don C]

Glad you're all right and glad your guardian angel was on the job. Sounds like one of the farmers forgot he was driving a car and not his tractor when he drove onto the highway.

Could've been worse, you could've been driving your Mustang.

 

[luxstang]

Holy crap, Tim, you were lucky.

Glad you're ok my friend!

 

[timachone]

Glad you're all right and glad your guardian angel was on the job. Sounds like one of the farmers forgot he was driving a car and not his tractor when he drove onto the highway.

Could've been worse, you could've been driving your Mustang.

Thank you for your words, Don! You almost nailed it - it was a young guy who never heard before that you have to accelerate to a proper speed BEFORE you leave the service lane... :-/

You second thought was also mine after a few hours - hope that never will occur. Otherwise I have to go in jail afterwards, I think...

Holy crap, Tim, you were lucky.

Glad you're ok my friend!

Mike, thank you my friend - yes, every now and then a bit of luck is not that bad...

 

[Jeff73Mach1]

Glad you are not badly hurt! Hope everything goes smnoothly in getting the insurance to take care of repolacing your wagon-looks like it did a good job of protecting you

 

[Mister 4x4]

Wow. Glad to hear you're OK. ::thumb::

We have that happen a LOT here in West Texas. People with Farm Truck license plates pulling onto 75mph roads at 20mph or so from the dirt road leading to their property out in the middle of nowhere. It's even more aggravating when you see a cell phone stuck to the side of their head as you pass by and they're just be-bopping along without a care in the world.

 

[timachone]

Glad you are not badly hurt! Hope everything goes smnoothly in getting the insurance to take care of repolacing your wagon-looks like it did a good job of protecting you

Thanks, Jeff! Yes, it did a good job on protecting - so I will buy another one like that. By such accidents you know that it is important to have a safe car... Hope I could buy another one soon and the insurance will take no extra fuss...

Wow. Glad to hear you're OK. ::thumb::

We have that happen a LOT here in West Texas. People with Farm Truck license plates pulling onto 75mph roads at 20mph or so from the dirt road leading to their property out in the middle of nowhere. It's even more aggravating when you see a cell phone stuck to the side of their head as you pass by and they're just be-bopping along without a care in the world.

Thanks, Eric!

Oh yeah, I know that! And when I see them driving like a drunken bee and having a cell phone on the ear I sometimes wish to have a big slap-hand to slap them on their back of their head so they perhaps willl awake...