| Comment | I nearly got into a bad accident one night about two years ago on the motorway between Cranhill and Easterhouse when a deer bounced out from nowhere to dart across the motorway. Anybody thats done advanced driving courses will probably know that they tell you when a large animal jumps out like that your supposed to accelerate and power through the animal. Apparently, it's safer to wreck the front of the car and kill the deer than it is to swerve. But, when it happened instinct and split second reaction... I swerved. Missed the deer but went into a 70mph spin. Car span 360 twice before I regained control and brought it to a dead stop inches from the central reservation. Maybe they were right about it being safer to put the foot down and belt the thing.
Thankfully, nobody else was on the road at that exact time. Would've been about half 4 ish in the morning, so the whole thing finished with no injuries, no deaths, no damages.
I brought it up once with my dad, also a taxi driver. His reply was "Happens aw the time. Why do you think most taxis stay in the middle lane? Rather risk getting a fine for being in the wrong lane than have an animal jump out the bushes on ye". |
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