Volvo powered by Ford!

So last Thursday I come around the corner after picking Kyle up from tennis, and I am confronted by a road that is filled with people and cars. I look a little closer and notice that the majority of the cars are stsanding right in front of my driveway. Furthermore, some of the cars are ambulances and tow trucks. Panic starts to set in a little and I park the car and stsart heading on foot to my house. As I weave throught he cars and passers by, I notice my wife's car is parked in the oncoming traffic with hazard lights on and nobody is is the car. Lying on my pavement is a body that the paramedics are working on. My heart starts to race, my legs start to move faster, and I realise that I am now running. It is an aweful feeling that starts to fill up my body and my mind...

On further investigation I discover that the body on the pavement is okay, and best of all, not that of my wife.

There had been an accident right outside our house. A Ford Territory had collided with a Volvo head on, 70m away from our house at the robots. The Volvo was at a stand still at the robots waiting to turn when this Ford came across the intersection and collected the Volvo. The driver of the Volvo says he remembers not seeing anyone in the Ford behind the wheel or in the passenger seat. He car was powered by the Ford and forced back for 70m until it mounted the pavement and hit a tree. The wheels of the Ford continued spinning causing a whole lot of smoke. My wife had come home and sort of witnessed the event. She had to drive through this thick smoke and stopped her car in oncoming traffic to avoid further trouble.

The driver of the ford must of had a fit and fallen unconcious and steered his car unknowingly into the Volvo. I am happy to report that both drivers were uninjured with not even a scratch on the bodies. The driver of the Ford regain consciousness before being taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.

I'm just relieved that everyone was okay at the end of the day, most especially my wife...

a FREEZING weekend...

This weekend was probably the coldest weekend I've had in a long time. I don't think I can remember it being that cold anytime before. Perhaps it's the age thing. You feel the cold more as you age. That can't be it though as I would then have to admit that I am ageing. Whatever it was, it was freezing. The highest I saw my cars temperature gauge go was 8 degrees, and that was at about half past two.....what it didn't show was the wind chill factor. I think it wiped out the eight degrees and some....

It was so cold and to top it off the rain came down on and off the whole day. Nothing like wet cold weather. It was so cold that the rain that had fallen on the trampoline froze. The pic was taken at about 2 in the afternoon....