Well Thursday 12th July 2007 was a pretty interesting day, as I was driving to work and had just gotten off the M6 @ Junction 4 on the A466 towards Coventry when the car in front slowed down I checked my mirrors and indicated to overtake.  I had started to pull out when another car came screaming down the outside I had to break and pull back to avoid him.  I obviously breaked and pulled to hard in doing so hitting the bollard which sent my car into a spin and ended up facing the other way pointing towards the central reservation.

After having checked that I was ok I and luckily hadn’t hitting anything I swung the car round and into a lay-by 10ft down the round.  After doing this the traffic that stopped then carried on like nothing had happened.  Nobody at all checked to see if I was ok. This was about 8:30am.

I then called the police and was told that someone was coming to check, I also called my dad and Katie to let them know I was ok.  There was a lot of phone calls back and forth after the initial call as I had no idea what the hell to do in this situation.  At 9:45 the police hadn’t arrived so I called them again, then then wanted to know what County I was in!?!?!? They then promised someone would call (they didn’t).  At 10:15am I called the Honda Jazz recovery which was AA I was giving them my details (I wasn’t sure of the road name at the time but I gave them my location in respect to the M6 and the A45 junction), while doing this my phone died.  I then had to run up the road across the dual carriage way to some lorries in the lay-by to get someone’s phone to finish the call.  I was told someone would be there between 11am and 1pm.

I made it back to the car and some Highway Agency people were the first to stop at 11:15am where they took my details and let me use their phone to call mum and for her to tell Katie and I was ok just waiting for pickup by the AA.  I waited for the AA and waited and then waited some more at 1:30pm and still no sign of the AA, I made my way back across the A446 and up to the lay-by to borrow a phone to call the AA back.  Turned they thought I was on the A441 (how this happened I have no idea), they apologised and said someone would be with me in the hour.  At 2:00pm the low loader turned up.

As they guy started to load the car on to the back of the truck a lorry who for some reason couldn’t see the massive blinking lights of the recovery vehicle or my hazards took the wing mirror of the low loader.  So after finally get on the back of the lorry we went round the round about and the AA guy had to spend 15mins  while he called up control and explained the situation. So by 2:30pm we set off and he asked where I wanted to go and I just said take it to a Honda garage I just want to get home.  The Sat Nav directed to us to Castle Bromwich (I’m sure I was closer to Coventry than heading back towards Brum) when we arrived at the destination no Honda garage it was a residential street.  So the AA guy then spent another 10 mins on finding where the nearest garage which was in Erdington which was another 20 mins away.

We finally got to the garage dropped the car, I then got a train home.  Came out of the station tried to use three payphones all not working (incidentally it now costs 40p to make a  phone call) so I just jumped on the first bus and finally walked through my door at 4:30pm.  I then phone my worried parents and fiancée to let them know I was ok and apologised for not phoning earlier.

As you can see not a good at all.  I then went out later that evening to watch the new Harry Potter film which did cheer up.

Funnily enough all this trouble could have been avoided if I had just called the insurance people straight away.  There’s a lesson there people learn from it!