The Crash

We set off into Turkey the snow was much thicker after the border and many roads had been closed…. So we where detoured off into snowy fields and around a closed road until we reconnected with the motorway. Here we where cruising along at about 50km/hr and then it happened….
Right at the moment I looked up from my book as Michelle said LOOK AT THAT! in the background we had the track Riders from the Storm by the Doors as I watched a yellow truck jack knifing across the motorway, bouncing off both unforgiving concrete barrier’s and sliding to a halt right across both lanes and a bit in the hard shoulder just to complete the bad picture of it all. I then saw Sparkie and Jonny veer into the same concrete barrier and in an unstoppable ice slide, we slid toward our fellow discovery. I told Michelle to get ready as we slammed to the spare wheel a crack exploded up our windscreen then we turned to see another red truck sliding in towards us….
Boom it was a big hit we were tossed around the first car and I looked up to see a ruined bonnet and an apologetic driver sitting in the red truck… I looked down checked Michelle was ok Jonny came running over to see if we where alright and we climbed over the barrier to a space we though would be safe…. More trucks came sliding in I ran up the wall to try and slow them only to see another truck loose control and start to slide in fast it looked awful so I turned and shouted to the others to Run!!! After the last truck settled I grabbed my trusty head torch set it to the Unusable flash mode which I never though I would need and ran up the motorway slowing traffic cause all I could see was going to be a huge pile up unless someone warned the oncoming traffic what was waiting around the bend…
My next hour was spent raising my arm up and down, dealing with cars that stopped to offer me help, explaining what was around the corner and slowing the odd lunatic that was determined to go fast no matter what until the de-icer turned up and shortly after four of the most incompetent police followed… to save the day?
We then got back in to our car which was the most wiped out and amazingly it started and even moved at quite a reasonable rate however both front wheel arches where ripped to shreds. We followed the motorway police to their office by the highway and filled in all the appropriate documents and recovering from a mild level of shock also throwing ideas around as what to do next….
We drove to a near by village Edinea and where led by convoy with a small truck from the police motorway office to our next hotel small cheap clean…. We seemed to be the talk of the town the next afternoon as we where loaded on to a pickup for Istanbul about 200kms away and where loosely strapped in wrapped in sleeping bags and towed to the Istanbul Land rover centre at 100kms along a icy cold stretch of motorway and backwards.
Love it!!!