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Old 23-Apr-2004, 14:38
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Car Crash....legal & driving tution questions please

Thank goodness the DSC is the font of all knowledge and don't mind any manner of questions......right???

Details:
Wednesday of this week my wife managed to roll the car that we have only had six months, down a 20ft grass embankment.

Apparently, she was avoiding an animal that had ran out from the side of the dual carriage and at the same time a gust of wind made her over-steering. She was trying to avoid going into the central reserve barrier and over-corrected, then thinking she was safe going towards a grass verge relised too late there was a BIG drop-off on the other side.

Thankfully she is OK with only cuts and brusies but, she is not yet fully recovered from the last write-off (that was not her fault).

There is onr question that does not sit too well with me but it has been suggested. It is a quite windy stretch of road (so much so that windmills have been errected not too long ago). Almost all the other incline/embankment stretches of road have had barriers installed on the nearside - EXCEPT - yep you guess the few hundred feet of road where my wife went off.....so the question was asked "can the council be held negligent in any way ????" Dunno !

Two - extra driver training....who?

My wife is now going to be VERY nervous about getting behind the wheel of ANY car again. So are there any good defensive / accident avoidence courses or schools that anyone knows of. I dont think an advanced driving course is what required, and my wife wouldn't like that type of course anyway, I feel.

What she does need to know is how to avoid accident and steer and brake correctly in emergency circumstances.

Thanks in advance for any replies.
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