Manky Monkey Motors

Well, we have a tail to tell and no mistake. We have been on holiday in Turkey for a week. Last day was a 2 houir transfer back to the airport and we pushed the boat out a little and booked a private ar rather than go by the coach.

Pick up at 11.00pm, meant to be at Dalaman airport by 1.00 am today. So we are all in the car asleep (Me, Cath and Will). Unfortunately, so was the driver :(

Bl**dy big bang and jolt wakes me up to find windscreen glass cascading down on me, and the car completely out of control somewhere it should not be on the multilane motoray going into dalaman.

To cut a longer story short the driver went to sleep, drifted onto the central resevation, hit the kerb mounted the centre, then hit a road sign before continuing on the wrong carriageway against traffic - all at about 50mph we think.

My arms are cut with the glass, Cath has strained her neck (previous spine fusion up there already), and Will has pulled his middle back. Thank God for seatbelts, at least the worst is the seatbelt burns Cath has on her chest, and I have offered to rub em better  :P !

very lucky, glad your all alright

Do you know, Turkey seems to becoming notorious for that type of accident, happened to one of my family whilst on holiday there a few years ago, but glad you survived reasonably intact!they should stick to what#s familiar to them , erm....donkeys maybe!!!! :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(Morrag

Sheesh! You never know when something like that could happen do you. Your life can change in an instant.
Thank God you won't be our next big hope in the Paralympics.  :)
Be careful out there people.

Cheers guys.  Yes, it makes you think. Mostly reflect on how bad it could have been :(

Lucky escape there Andy

Buy a Euromillions immediately  ;D
Glad it was not worse .
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Thanks again :)

Ye gods!

Bad luck to get a sleepy driver but fantastic luck to come out of it with nothing worse!

good to see your ok though andy, my daughters freinds parents was over in portugal in july fetching back affects, they moved there for 5 years and then came home again ???  any way they took the p38 rangy over to recover a trailer which housed an bmw e34 estate, allong with a boot laced with wine. half way through portugal a drunken spaniard hit them on a bend ,they rolled the range rover trailer with e34 on top totaly writ the lot off the rangy they were traveling in,roof was completly crushed to the bottom of the windows the pictures are devestating, they must have been good in the past as god was defenatly sitting on there shoulders,, more ashtonising he said that not a single bottel of wine in either boot smashed?? and so damn lucky the kids wernt with them.

Well that was a shock, i saw the header on the discussion general section..  Nearly minus 1.5 MO..  Methinks. Here we go winter here freezing Monday. ;D ;D ;D
 Then it all became obvious i was well awry with my assumption. :o
 Well my daftness may raise a giggle right enough and thank god  you are here to read this, sounds an horrendous experience all round. Glad you are ok ish .
  Me winter what am i like.  ;D
 
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Bloody hell Andy,glad youre safe! You going to claim on Holiday insurance (or his,if he has any?)

Andy, I can`t really add anymore to what has already been said, but i too am glad that you and your family are ok.

Good god its looks like a plain tried to land on top of the car  ???

Glad you and yours are OK

glad you are all ok andy.

Thanks again to everyone for the kind comments. Yes, we are returning to what passes for normal in the rennie household now, but an experience we wont forget in a hurry. As for insurance, well, we will see. We havent suffered any tangible loss, so i think there will be nothing to come from there. Just glad to all be ok, thats enough for me.

One thing I would say is that without seatbelts the outcome would have been very different. I know they are not always required in some foreign countries, but this proves the point, its worth wearing them :)

Yeah!  As far as I can make out we hit a road sign (the front bumper was stoved in on the passenger side) - I think it either pivoted or bent and came down on the roof. That gives you an indication of the speed we must have been doing. I was waking ang going back to sleep, and the speedo was usually showing about 120Kmph - but I can't think we were going that fast when we hit the central kerb or we would have taken off into the air or flipped.

You were very lucky then