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Especially when you only have a little car and are surrounded by big lorries
awww.. I know the big lorries are scary.. but a big lorry possibly saved my life on monday!
Long story (well not that long... the whole thing was over in 5 -10 seconds... but in my head it feels like 10 mins)... but, for the first time in my life, I experience "aquaplaning" on Monday afternoon as I went round a bend on he A12 to collect my son from school.
I still do not quite know how I managed to not have a really horrible accident... but basically I steered into my skid... which meant I was hurtling towards the barrier... I turned hard right to avoid that... meaning I careered over the other side of the road.
All the time I had been aware there was an HGV on the inside lane.. and when I was trying to stop aquaplaning I was expecting the HGV to plough into me... as I turned to avoid the barrier I was expecting the traffic that had been behind me on the outside lane to ram me...
when I looked in my rear view mirror the lorry driver had straddled both lanes... holding back all the other traffic.
I am filled with gratitude & love for him & his big lorry!