Driving into work this morning I had a “near miss” – almost but not quite an accident but makes you draw in breath and you feel as if you heart has skipped a beat for a moment.
At one of the many roundabouts in MK, I was positioned alongside a long lorry laden with drainage pipes (who was turning right) and also sandwiched in between another two lorry’s (in front and behind)
I had one of those feelings that the long lorry turning right was going to want a wide berth so I held back a little, but the cars at the next junction onto the roundabout had, rather brilliantly, begun to creep forward expecting a gap in traffic after the lorry in front of me. Swerving slightly to avoid the on coming cars the large yellow cab of the lorry loomed ominously in my drivers side window! (Here’s when I did take a sharp breath) Thankfully I managed to nip through the gap but I expect that most of the other motorists in my vicinity were non the wiser about my little panic. Hmm maybe it wasn’t such a close call, but still, my heart still raced!
Marys musings 