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I was thinking tonight about an incident that my mate and I shared around the mid 1970's, on a trip from Sydney to Jenolan Caves.
In those days, petrol was VERY cheap (about 14 cents per litre) and we all had V8's, except for Peter. Pete drove a Mini van. He was definitely a bit different to the rest of us.
Pete left by himself about two hours ahead of the rest of us to drive to Jenolan. We figured we would all arrive within a half hour or so.
The road into Jenolan from Sydney is very windy and on the day we travelled, it had been raining and the road was very slippery. As we headed slowly and carefully down the road, we found Pete standing by the roadside, with his Mini in the scrub with minor front end damage. However, being a Mini, it couldn't be driven. Fortunately, Pete was OK. He had been forced off the road by a car travelling in the opposite direction taking a corner too fast and swinging out into Peter's path. He took evasive action, but struck a roadside post and ended up off the road.
One mate and I stayed with Peter's car while the other guys drove down to Jenolan to arrange a tow. My car, an HG Monaro, was parked around the corner down a small side track where I figured it was safe.
After about ten minutes, Captain Goombah in an old Mark One Cortina comes double shuffling down the road too fast. He makes it around the right hander where we were, but lost it on the left hander near my parked car. Crunch, another dead car, into a post. We quickly moved my car into a much safer location and pushed the Cortina into the track where I had been parked. Goombah waits for the cops and a towie......
Cops arrive to investigate Peter's prang. While they are there, Goombah Mark 2 in an old Beetle comes down the road, loses it on the right hander and slots the embankment. He then selects reverse and goes to drive back up where he had just come from - PC Plod pulls him over to give him something to read......
Another five minutes, tow truck turns up and stops alongside Pete's car. The car following, a Mazda 929 driven by Goombah 3, slides down the slippery road right in front of us and slots the tow truck dead center. Tow Truck 1, Mazda 0. Goombah 3 then comes up to the cop and says "Umm, I'd like to report an accident...."
Goombah 4 drives down, gets distracted all the action, and suddenly realises he is running out of road. He hits the pick and skids towards the road side, where it drops away suddenly and he will be relying on a big tree to stop.
Cops are by now getting very exasperated. My mate and I have had the best hour of free entertainment we have ever had. None of the drivers could understand why we were laughing so much. Three prangs and one near miss in less than 60 minutes, all within a distance of about 50 metres. My other mates were really pissed off that they had missed all the fun.
Some people just don't have any sense of humour.......
Anybody else witnessed really crazy behaviour leading to prangs? (Not involving yourself)
In those days, petrol was VERY cheap (about 14 cents per litre) and we all had V8's, except for Peter. Pete drove a Mini van. He was definitely a bit different to the rest of us.
Pete left by himself about two hours ahead of the rest of us to drive to Jenolan. We figured we would all arrive within a half hour or so.
The road into Jenolan from Sydney is very windy and on the day we travelled, it had been raining and the road was very slippery. As we headed slowly and carefully down the road, we found Pete standing by the roadside, with his Mini in the scrub with minor front end damage. However, being a Mini, it couldn't be driven. Fortunately, Pete was OK. He had been forced off the road by a car travelling in the opposite direction taking a corner too fast and swinging out into Peter's path. He took evasive action, but struck a roadside post and ended up off the road.
One mate and I stayed with Peter's car while the other guys drove down to Jenolan to arrange a tow. My car, an HG Monaro, was parked around the corner down a small side track where I figured it was safe.
After about ten minutes, Captain Goombah in an old Mark One Cortina comes double shuffling down the road too fast. He makes it around the right hander where we were, but lost it on the left hander near my parked car. Crunch, another dead car, into a post. We quickly moved my car into a much safer location and pushed the Cortina into the track where I had been parked. Goombah waits for the cops and a towie......
Cops arrive to investigate Peter's prang. While they are there, Goombah Mark 2 in an old Beetle comes down the road, loses it on the right hander and slots the embankment. He then selects reverse and goes to drive back up where he had just come from - PC Plod pulls him over to give him something to read......
Another five minutes, tow truck turns up and stops alongside Pete's car. The car following, a Mazda 929 driven by Goombah 3, slides down the slippery road right in front of us and slots the tow truck dead center. Tow Truck 1, Mazda 0. Goombah 3 then comes up to the cop and says "Umm, I'd like to report an accident...."
Goombah 4 drives down, gets distracted all the action, and suddenly realises he is running out of road. He hits the pick and skids towards the road side, where it drops away suddenly and he will be relying on a big tree to stop.
Cops are by now getting very exasperated. My mate and I have had the best hour of free entertainment we have ever had. None of the drivers could understand why we were laughing so much. Three prangs and one near miss in less than 60 minutes, all within a distance of about 50 metres. My other mates were really pissed off that they had missed all the fun.
Some people just don't have any sense of humour.......
Anybody else witnessed really crazy behaviour leading to prangs? (Not involving yourself)