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@cee-dee wrote:

 

 

I didn't say it but............ you don't "skid" and hit a wall and you don't get killed along with your friend if you're driving at a normal, sensible speed?

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You can only remark with that kind of specific comment if you actually know the circumstance of the accident in question.

When I was 20 and my very dear friend was 19, we should both have been travelling in the car that she was driving and got killed in. I had to work that day instead of attending college with my friend.  She had not long past her driving test and owned her own new mini, she went to pull out of a side road onto a main road, slowly turning right and she was hit by a bus and killed, she was DOA. She was a good sensible driver and did not speed. This particular time she couldn't have been going more than walking speed she was pulling out of a juction.

The bus oncoming on her right was signalling as though turning left, she pulled out thinking it was turning left, it wasn't it was sloing right down to pass the road she was coming out of to stop at the bus stop ammediately after the junction, It was just inexperience that did it, she should have waited just a few seconds more to be sure of where that bus was going.

I had a lucky escape that day.