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M1 heading into Leeds keeping up with the 50mph rush-hour traffic in a battered hand-painted Citroen Ami 8, the 3 lanes are packed and I'm foolishly in lane 3 with a Mercedes hounding me. I smell burning and 2 cars ahead of me in lane 2 a Mark 3 Cortina loses its offside half-shaft, brake drum and wheel. The assembly punches out of the side of the car in a shower of rust and I get a good look at this missile heading axle-first for the Citroen's flimsy bonnet. Fortunately it digs in in front of my car and vaults past the A-pillar onto the central reserve. It happened so quickly I'd only just begun to brake. Brings me out in a sweat even though it was 30 years ago.
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Lucky Escapes new
Lucky Escapes new
