Darrell Cooper
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- Joined
- Nov 18, 2010
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- Location
- North Hertfordshire
- Your Mercedes
- E300 1998 3ltr turbo diesel
Hi to all, sorry if this is in the wrong area.
I have a story to tell.
The wife and I were travelling home on christmas day along the A11 near Red Lodge. It is a quiet dual carrigeway but all of a sudden we came up on a car, red puma as it happens, rather quickly. We had been following along in a small group of cars doing around 70 ish. I swereved, to avoid said Puma, into the outside lane where I lost control for a second. While fighting to regain control the woman in the puma undertook us and as a result I hit her in the rear quarter and spun both of us out. We spun 180 degrees and flew off the road into the tress, which brought us to a very sudden stop. You can see the result in the photo below.
It took the fire brigade two and a half hours to cut me out of the car. The wife thankfully walked away with a few cuts and bruises. There were engines from 3 brigades several police cars, ambulances and the air ambulance. I can't say thank you enough to those guys, they were great.
My injuries were exstensive, I had broken my left ankle, my right leg in 2 places below the knee, dislocated my left shoulder, broken my nose and 3 ribs and broken and dislocated my right hip.
I spent 8 weeks in Addenbrokes hospital whee I was looked after really well. I certainly can't complain about my treatment, at one stage it was taking 5 nurses to turn me to change the sheets etc.
I am now back at work and on the way to recovery however, mainly i have to say to the great work of the people who desighned my Mercedes. The pictures are not the best of the car as they were taken on my sons phone but I think they show the damage and how lucky we were that we were in a large german car.
Darrell
I have a story to tell.
The wife and I were travelling home on christmas day along the A11 near Red Lodge. It is a quiet dual carrigeway but all of a sudden we came up on a car, red puma as it happens, rather quickly. We had been following along in a small group of cars doing around 70 ish. I swereved, to avoid said Puma, into the outside lane where I lost control for a second. While fighting to regain control the woman in the puma undertook us and as a result I hit her in the rear quarter and spun both of us out. We spun 180 degrees and flew off the road into the tress, which brought us to a very sudden stop. You can see the result in the photo below.
It took the fire brigade two and a half hours to cut me out of the car. The wife thankfully walked away with a few cuts and bruises. There were engines from 3 brigades several police cars, ambulances and the air ambulance. I can't say thank you enough to those guys, they were great.
My injuries were exstensive, I had broken my left ankle, my right leg in 2 places below the knee, dislocated my left shoulder, broken my nose and 3 ribs and broken and dislocated my right hip.
I spent 8 weeks in Addenbrokes hospital whee I was looked after really well. I certainly can't complain about my treatment, at one stage it was taking 5 nurses to turn me to change the sheets etc.
I am now back at work and on the way to recovery however, mainly i have to say to the great work of the people who desighned my Mercedes. The pictures are not the best of the car as they were taken on my sons phone but I think they show the damage and how lucky we were that we were in a large german car.
Darrell
