I was on a motorway round-about, turning right to get on the motorway (M65) heading West. On the sliproad coming off the m-way (coming from the East) was a woman in her MPV. There were two car lengths between me and the car in front. She thought she could take that spot and so she set off (without even indicating). By the time she got across, I had mostly overtaken her, but she clipped my rear-left quarter (found a big dent on my rear left wheel arch) and I fishtailed.
What followed was sheer terror, which has shaken me to the core.
My car went up the embankment of the sliproad I was going to go up. I missed 4 trees, 2 lamp posts and skidded 3/4s of the way up the sliproad embankment, before a m-way sign post slowed me down, by stripping off the entire right side of the car (Vectra). At which point I stopped. I got out of the car with nothing but a single scratch on my thumb and looked at where I came from. My car had zig zagged through the trees and lamp posts and missed every one of them as I travelled 400 yards up the road, on thick dewey grass.
The dizzy cow eventually came over and tried to blame me, saying I was "indicating right"... Not only was I indicating right because I was fucking going right, but even if I wasn't indicating at all, I was on the round-about and she bloody well should have waited. I was so angry at this woman for almost killing me, the slap in the face was her trying to put the blame on me.
The car is totalled, although luckily it was a company car and not my own. And I'm still alive.
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