Dave was thinking very hard :
Driving very carefully and quite slowly with a few sheets of polystyrene on the roof rack along a back road (quite busy with other vehicles), a sudden gust of wind caught and ripped off a corner of the polystyrene - this is the white very soft light stuff commonly used for packing and insulation.
It flew, hit a car coming the opposite way, obviously it couldn't possibly do any damage. I stopped all the drivers around me saw my predicament also stopped. The female driver of the car which had been struck now a 100 ads further on panicked, perhaps thinking her car had suffered damage and attempted to do a three point turn in the road. She hit one car in front of her, then another behind as she carried out her maneuver. Eventually she pulled up behind me, followed by the irate drivers of the cars she had damaged.
Her expressed reason for panicking was that she '...thought I was uninsured and about to drive straight off'. There I was a mature, respectably dressed individually calmly trying to reinforce the ties on the remaining polystyrene on the roof rack of a rather tasty Celica - how did she arrive at the 'uninsured and about to drive off' conclusion?
Blind, stupid or both 489Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message It quite clearly wasn't secured properly for the conditions you encountered during the journey. Earlier this year I had something similar happen to me. A sheet of something...
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Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L)
