Don't say sorry and other key things I learnt from my terrifying car accident

 

As a former police detective for 14 years with Surrey Police, I regularly provide advice on criminal matters for BBC's Morning Live. I have also attended many car accidents in a professional capacity, but this summer, for the first time, I was in a head-on collision with another car myself.

 

Being directly involved in one of the more than 900 car accidents that happen in the UK every day gave me a different perspective.

 

The woman in the other car, in her early seventies, had a medical episode while driving and swerved straight into my lane and hit me.

At the time, I didn't know any of that - I just remember a huge bang and then everything felt like a blur.

 

Read more:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypypy2jk2o

 

Serves as a salutary reminder, I think, that road accidents don't just happen in Thailand, contrary to what the Thai-bashing brigade on here would like us to believe.

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