My Brush with DEATH......

[thearrow]

Its 1:30 am on Saturday night and I am driving along Stoney Creek Rd. at Bexley (a dual carriage way in both directions) minding my own business, feeling a bit tired & thinking about what I have to do on Sunday, mow the grass, take the kids somewhere you know the normal stuff . The traffic is very light, a car passes me in the opposite direction every couple of minutes and I am doing about 80 clicks, as you do at that time of night.

I am stone cold sober & have not had a drink all night.

I see another car coming toward me about 100 metres away, as we get to about 50-60 metres he starts to drift across the road at first I wasn't concerned I just thought that's a bit strange and he will straighten up but he doesn't he keeps coming I flash my lights, he keeps coming, by now he is in my lane on the wrong side of the road.

WTF !!!!!!!! :

I swerve into lane 1 and sense his lights going past me inches away but now I am heading straight for the gutter and the brick fence just beyond that and the brick house just beyond that. I wrench the wheel back the other way and the car swerves back into lane 2, I straighten it up and get things tidied up as I stuff my heart back into my chest. I check my rear view mirror and he is still on my side of the road for about another 50 meters and finally wakes up and gets back on his side of the road.

I can honestly say the Cougar saved my life it performed the manoeuvre flawlessly under an emergency situation and I am convinced that driving a lesser vehicle would have invloved me in a serious accident.

I have been driving for 35 years and had my share of accidents but this is the closest I have ever come to being killed outright as there is no way anybody is going to survive a head on at 80KMH and live to talk about it.



Everytime I get in my Cougar now I give thanks and praise to the FORD engineers who designed my car & to brand new BFG tyres.

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