Twisty B-roads, on the way home on a rainy Saturday morning from dropping the missus off at work. Sharp left hand bend, and hidden on the other side was not one but two large floods. Hit the first one, lost complete control of the car. I mean, you might as well have severed all the cables, the brakes, the handbrake, steering into the skid, nothing worked. The wheels had no grip hence I had no control.
So the car slid from the first flood straight into the second, which pulled it sharply to the left. The front passenger side wing smacked a dry stone wall, slewing the car around where it slid sideways taking out a telegraph pole and sending a herd of cows running, mooing, for their lives as glass and plastic flew from the front of the car.
The entire front end was mashed, there was no left front wheel left, but i walked away with no injuries, whiplash, anything. It was a 1997 VW Polo. Man, are they well built.
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