Yesterday, driving on the way to Kvadrat shopping centre we had a close encounter of the almost crashing kind (including the Heavenly Hosts kind). At first we thought it was just some guy reversing CRAZY FAST from his driveway across both lanes of traffic on a main road. We (Kim, Sam & I) braked just in time, including the car in the oncoming lane. Either the driver was really really small, invisible or not present (turned out to be the latter).
The car rolled down out of a slanted driveway, across the road, up onto the footpath on the other side, hit the wood fence that then bent and almost allowed the car to continue down into someone's backyard/house. However, the fence acted like a slingshot and sent the car flying back across the road for the second time!
I put my HANDBRAKE on as you do, and flicked on my emergency lights jumped out of the car & then proceeded to try and open the driverless car's driver door (in hopes to turn on the HANDBRAKE). The door was locked. So i resorted to pushing on the side of the car to stop it from rolling backwards once again - while thinking, that fence doesn't look like it will stand another blow.
Then I noticed that someone had just opened the door at the culprits house and was poking his head out. I started waving frantically for him to come and help (not sure if any word successfully escaped my mouth, but i thought the situation was extremely obvious) - apparently not so. Culprit did some strange ("get away from my car") gesture, closed the door & went back inside. Did that just happen? What did he think i was doing with his car - stealing it?
The guy in the other car that also almost go hit {let's call him Hero#2 to make it easy} ;-) said, "Hadde han ikke håndbrekket på?" (Did he not have the hand brake on?). Answer - NO. Hero#2 jumped out of his car and helped to push the car further off the road. He grabbed a rock and stuck it under the wheel and then jumped back in his car. Being older & wiser than I, he realized that one rock was enough to stop a car moving. Thanks Hero#2!
I then considered going up to Culprit's house, to have a friendly chat, when i noticed that the traffic had actually started to pile up. So aborting that plan & before jumping back in our car I decided to chuck a couple of extra rocks under the wheels, just to be sure - which apparently put a smile on Hero#2 face :D
Thank you God (JEHOVAH-SABAOTH) for looking after us & for perfect timing. You & your angels rock!
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The near miss & JEHOVAH-SABAOTH on Postveien
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Samantha Kate Beckingham
We were blessed with a beautiful little baby girl on the 16th of August 2009. She was born at 20:55, weighed 3070 grams and was 46 cm long.
1 month on... she is healthy, hungry, growing, cute & loves her mummy & daddy :-)
Love from Shane & Kim
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