Lesson 30. Section 1. An Alarming experience on the road.
Now look, er, what's all this about this? That story about you and this car I have been hearing so much about. Everybody else has been hearing it, but you haven't told me.

Well, I was driving to Norwich with a friend, erm, we teach there and, erm, I was driving behind a Lotus Elan sports car on dual carriageway and erm, after about 3 or 4 miles behind this car, er, we left dual carriageway and erm, entered a two-way road.

And, er, this Lotus suddenly slowed down for no reason whatsoever. Not a side road or anything? No, no, no turning off, no lay-bys, they just slowed down, and er, I thought, that's, that's odd,

And I overtook the Loutus slowly and erm, looked over at the driver, and as I did, I saw him slump over the wheel. Oh, how awful. Yes, so what did you do next?

So, erm, I pulled into the kerb about 30 yards or so, er, in front of the Lotus (Yes), and erm, my passenger and myself got out and we, we walked back towards his car.

My friend was on the grass verge and er, I was in the middle of the road. We never even reached the car. I was about 5 yards from the car when suddenly, erm, there was a noise of full acceleration and the car just shot forward, nearly ran me down.

So I had to leap for my life. I was absolutely shaken because the car must have missed me by about half an inch or so, I mean, how dread, it just shot past me and I saw my car smashed in front of my eyes.

How dreadful. Yes, just smashed to smithereens, pieces of car flying all over the road, and both cars locked together went down the road and there was a bend at the bottom of the road and I thought well, the next thing is going to be a head-on collision. (Yes, of course)

Erm, but fortunately nothing came in the opposite direction and erm, then both cars went across the road and erm, up a grass bank which it was quite a tall bank and erm, and at the top of the bank there was a large hedge.

Well, my car left the Lotus, and literally took off and shot through the hedge (Oh, goodness) and landed in a ploughed field. (Yes) But the Lotus veered to the left and got stuck in the hedge, in the thick part of the hedge.

And erm, the acceleration was still on full and the back wheels were tearing up the grass verge, throwing mud and soil, earth, and grass all over the road, er, it was just you know, absolutely terrify, (How terrify).

Because the Lotus, radiator burst and there was steam everywhere, it was like a, like a cloud of steam and smoke, and er, the first thing, erm, of course, we thought of doing was to get the driver out. (Well, of course) Yes, (Quite)