Sorry for the confusion
We are happily sitting in a deserted cove 100metres down from the road eating our picnic dinner ( 2 boys/wife) Le trayas area which is the corniche road between Cannes and St. Raphael
A car comes off the road and over the cliff !!!!!! Like a movie and all you can do hits rocks and into the sea
Emergency services there within minutes, explaining to the boys that there was nothing we could do, they keep asking if they died, you'd have to be luckiest person if you did survive that - told them I don't know but they probably did.
Moved boys off the beach cove - typical that we were the only ones on beach.
We are all shocked home now sitting by the pool with a stiff cup of tea and talking with the boys - they think it's like James Bond - in a way I love their innocence wife and I are crying.
Funny old game this
😯
Any chance there was no one in the car, faulty handbrake situation, or did it actually leave the road?
Hope you still get to enjoy your holiday.
Pictures?
On a fast bend, middle of nowhere
Kids are resilient. Hugs to you and mrs_unfitgeezer 😐
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Got my skills of a flic on and found this
Which translates poorly to this which suggests serious injury to a 40 year old lass.
Hope this puts some positivity to what you can tell the family. Hope you enjoy the rest of your holiday and no watching Dukes du Hazzard
How old are they?
It was being filmed for a movie.
Tough times OP, at some point it would be good to discuss the accident with the kids, life isn't like the movies as we know and people die in accidents like this
scuttler
Good work !!!
I guess this sort of thing is fairly common out here
Klunk - Member
following a car to this junction when went straight through the junction and into the river It didn't even slow down. We managed to get them out safely though !
I used to live in Ely, you knew whether the roads were icy by the newspaper headlines 🙁
I used to live in Ely, you knew whether the roads were icy by the newspaper headlines
I live in Ely and during the winter or when it's wet and the roads are muddy cars end up in rivers and dykes every day almost!
Much harder to control a car in the Fens with webbed feet though.
*High sixes the fellow Fen dwellers*
Huh, wondering where Klunk lives as a I know that particular junction.
*High sixes the fellow Fen dwellers*
High sixes back
I used to live in Ely, you knew whether the roads were icy by the newspaper headlines
In Luxembourg the local papers are full on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings of mysterious crashes that involve only one car usually driving off the road late night or early morning. The corn fields are full of sets of tyre tracks that start at one corner and end at the next one. It's almost like there's loads of people who drive after one too many drinks...
piemonster - Member
Huh, wondering where Klunk lives as a I know that particular junction.
Me too. Cut my driving teeth on those roads (grew up in Mereside).
Not wishing to make light of the situation, but this bit in translation made me smile, hopefully the OP may see it as amusing too.
In addition, a team specialized in aquatic rescue [b]and the Grimp [/b]were hired to allow the most appropriate care to save the victim, who would be seriously injured.
WTF is "The Grimp"? Is it green and hates christmas?
Huh, wondering where Klunk lives as a I know that particular junction.
we had friends who lived in Benwick back in the last century.
As a further aside I wondered why they used the subjunctive in "would be seriously injured." I'm fluent in French but have never quite understood this linguistic habit.
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WTF is "The Grimp"? Is it green and hates christmas?
Grimpeur = climber. Sounds like specialist aquatics / access at height team
but that accident in the newspaper link was about 10pm so maybe not the one in the OP
Haha klunk i know that one too.
Something about fen roads. About 3 miles of dead straight followed by a 90 degree corner. Wonderful and if you are lucky no water the other side
Something about fen roads. About 3 miles of dead straight followed by a 90 degree corner. Wonderful and if you are lucky no water the other side
Undulating odd camber straight roads if you don't mind.
MoreCashThanDash - Member*High sixes the fellow Fen dwellers*
Despite being quite genetically diverse (Grandparents from four different countries), I do live at the edge of the Fen, and do have webbed feet. 😳
grahamt1980 - MemberSomething about fen roads. About 3 miles of dead straight followed by a 90 degree corner.
Going on a late night "fen rally" (in reality quite a sedate drive) in my mate's Maestro one night, all the electrics cut out.
50-60mph next to the forty foot ditch in pitch black.
Two new pairs of pants were required that evening.
Ah the Fens. Seriously, why don't more of the roads have barriers. The lack of hedges/walls/hills make some people incredibly confident in their driving until a drain appears in the way...
we had friends who lived in Benwick back in the last century.
Benwick near March? One of my best friends lives there! Hi, Kim, (waves).
And yes, I can see exactly how dangerous those roads can be, I drove up there to stay with Kim and Mark, her husband, and the road surfaces are so uneven because of the peat subsiding my little Puma was bouncing all over the road, I found it easier to straddle the white line when there was no other traffic about, because it was the flattest bit!
Undulating odd camber straight roads if you don't mind.
Understate me another one! 😆
nbt - Member
but that accident in the newspaper link was about 10pm so maybe not the one in the OP
Same one,
Chat this morning with the boys mc Donald's luncheon and all is back to normal ( we hope) snorkelling later !
I've been told to drive slower as well !Good that it wasn't a fatality
When I was young we were at Beachy Head when we came across tyre tracks leading straight to the cliff edge. It turned out a woman had driven herself and her two children over the edge the day before. I'm not sure it really had any effect on me but just keep an eye on the kids and see how it goes.
'Grimpeur" is literally climbing.
It's the name they use for specialty access teams such as HaRC/UKSART/USAR we have here.
On holiday this year in Durness and a car ended up on the beach from the Tourist Info Car park - missed a guy sitting on the beach by a couple of meters. No one in the car at the time.
We were in that area on Monday last week, some lovely coves along there and a great drivers road. Hope it doesn't spoil your holidays and that anyone involved is ok
I'm just back from holiday in France having driven down to the Dordogne.
I just cannot get over how utterly shite French drivers are; arrogant, dismissive and plain stupid (it was the same the last few years in similar trips).
Their party piece is driving sub one metre from your rear bumper at 130kph while you're overtaking a line of slower traffic. That and trying to barge their way through on a B-Road because you're only doing 70kph.
As a further aside I wondered why they used the subjunctive in "would be seriously injured." I'm fluent in French but have never quite understood this linguistic habit.
conditional rather than subjunctive surely? I understood 'would be..' to be used here more like 'would later turn out to be..', future in the past kind of thing. I can only read French by translating it first into Spanish though!
As a further, further aside, I didn't know Chattaris is a real place. Are there really prick barriers at both ends?
Chatteris is quite an unreal place...