Rubbish Day

[nailit]

Ever had a rubbish day?
My sisters chap was told today at the hospital that he has prostate cancer. An hour later someone slams into his car as he was reversing it out of the drive, looks like a write off. To top it off the police turned up and threatened to arrest him as he was mouthing off a bit at the other driver. Sheesh...

[DTCwordfan]

Darwin awards and probably apocryphal, however it's a good yarn

In France, Jacques Lefevrier left nothing to chance when he decided to commit suicide.

He stood atop a sheer Etretat cliff and tied a noose around his neck. He tied the other end of the rope to a large rock. He drank some poison and set fire to his clothes. He even tried to shoot himself at the last moment. He jumped and fired the pistol.

The bullet missed him completely and cut through the rope above him. Now freed from the threat of hanging, he plunged into the sea, a large wave coming in.

The dunking immediately extinguished the flames and made him vomit the poison. He was dragged out of the water by a kind fisherman and was taken to a hospital, where he died of hypothermia.

[Cloverjo]

Sorry, nailit. That's a terrible thing to hear about the cancer. However, he'll probably come out of the other end of it ok. Horrible to have all the other stuff happen on the same day. Sometimes life just happens like that, unfortunately.

[Elina]

What a cruel combination of events to happen to one person in a day. We're the police sympathetic?

[Elina]

'were'

[Mamyalynne]

Sadness for someone every day as we've seen here today.


Sorry to hear this Nailit, hope help is available for this gentleman.

[Psybbo]

Oh that is so tough, Nailit, I hope he gets through this x

[tonyav]

Bad day indeed, nailit. Hope your sisters chap gets through this.

[nailit]

////The car bit sounds a bit vague as well. Reversing on to a public road and hit by another vehicle travelling at speed. On the face of it, only one person to blame for that.

Sorry to sound unsympathetic.///


The drive is on a bend. The onus of the driver is to go slow around the bend,

[SirOracle]

I agree with dive buddy that the onus is on the person who is reversing out of his drive onto the road.

The only possible exception would be to prove that the driver on the road was exceeding the speed limit,which would be difficult.

Your brother should have reversed into his drive and had someone to make sure the road was clear,before waving the car out. The bend unfortunately acts against your brother.

[nailit]

//I think you'll find that reversing onto a public road is going against Highway Code advice//
Cant think of any other way of reversing your car on to a road except...putting it in to reverse?

[EcclesCake]

Reverse into the drive so that you can drive out?

[Buenchico]

The point that others are making, Nailit, is that you should always reverse INTO a driveway from a main road, so that you then don't have to reverse out of it.

[Psybbo]

Oddly, usually the person who hits a car from behind is the one at fault?

[nailit]

For Gods sakes, I was merely pointing out that my sisters bloke was today diagnosed with cancer and had his car writen off, and been abused by the local police into the bargain. wished Id never mentioned it...