mortiz
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No one was injured fortunately but my mates car has been totaled. We'd just been on holiday in Newquay for the past week and we were going home on the M1. We were just outside Nottingham in the fast lane and it'd been raining so there was quite a lot of water on the road.
Well anyway, I was sat in the front but I didn't really see much of what happened because I was reading something, but an old bint in front of us slams on her breaks and my mate had to break hard. Unfortunately it wasn't enough and it took us careening into the back of her car. The thing was there was another van behind us that wasn't keeping minimum distance so my friend didn't break has hard as he could to prevent the guy behind us from running into us which could have made things a lot worse. My mate managed to gain control of the car and get it on the central reservation but since the car wouldn't start after that the police had to stop all traffic on the North-Bound M1 so they could push the car over to the hard shoulder.
Eventually a pick-up truck came to get us and we had to endure the long journey from Nottingham to where we live and my mate had to endure £120 just to get it off the Motorway and another £300 for the tow home. They gave my friend a caution for "Driving without due care and attention" and put him on a driver-improvement scheme as well. Of course the old woman in front of us reckoned we weren't keeping minimum distance, just before she started her car and drove off with a few scratches on her bumper. I suppose the main thing was that nobody was hurt though.
Well anyway, I was sat in the front but I didn't really see much of what happened because I was reading something, but an old bint in front of us slams on her breaks and my mate had to break hard. Unfortunately it wasn't enough and it took us careening into the back of her car. The thing was there was another van behind us that wasn't keeping minimum distance so my friend didn't break has hard as he could to prevent the guy behind us from running into us which could have made things a lot worse. My mate managed to gain control of the car and get it on the central reservation but since the car wouldn't start after that the police had to stop all traffic on the North-Bound M1 so they could push the car over to the hard shoulder.
Eventually a pick-up truck came to get us and we had to endure the long journey from Nottingham to where we live and my mate had to endure £120 just to get it off the Motorway and another £300 for the tow home. They gave my friend a caution for "Driving without due care and attention" and put him on a driver-improvement scheme as well. Of course the old woman in front of us reckoned we weren't keeping minimum distance, just before she started her car and drove off with a few scratches on her bumper. I suppose the main thing was that nobody was hurt though.