Good to hear that you are OK.
I had to make quite a swerve the other day. I was in the right hand lane of a two lane dual carriageway (albeit with a 40 mph limit). A transit van had pulled into a turning point in a gap between the barriers, so that it could u-turn onto the other carriageway, as indicating right to do so.
For whatever reason, it suddenly decided to instead turn left back onto the original carriageway, when I was only a few metres away. Luckily I had been slowing down, in anticipation of some lights further on being red (which they always are at that point in my journey).
I managed to swerve around the front of the van, which had almost totally blocked my lane, and luckily the car on my left was also slowing and was just far back enough that I could get in front of it and past the van.
Looking back in my rear view mirror the van had moved back into the turning area, and seemed to be proceeding off that way. I've no idea why they pulled out in front of me. Perhaps they were trying to get a better angle to turn, and forgot to check the lane was clear.
No injuries, but the missus went quiet for a couple of minutes...so not a couple disaster :)
Last edited by: SteelSpark on Wed 5 Jun 13 at 18:40
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