Unit 8 An Alarming Experience on the Road.
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1. Alice: So, I look, what's all this about this story about you and this car I've been hearing so much about. Everybody else has been hearing it but you haven't told me.
John: Well, I was driving to Norwich with a friend. We teach there. And I was driving behind a Lotus Elan sports car on a dual carriageway. And, er, after about, er, three or four miles, er,
behind this car we left the dual carriageway and, er, entered a two-way road. And, er, this Lotus suddenly slowed down for no reason whatsoever.]]>2. Alice: Not a side road or anything?
John: No, no. No turning off, no lay-byes. It just slowed down and, er, I thought, "That's odd". And I overtook the Lotus slowly and looked over the driver. And as I did, I saw him slumped over the wheel.
Alice: Oh, how awful!
John: Yes.
Alice: So, what did you do next?
John: So, erm, I pulled into the curb back thirty yards or so in front to the Lotus. (Yes.) And, er, my passenger and myself got out and we walked back towards his car.
My friend was on the grass verge and, er, I was on the middle of the road. We never even, erm, reached the car.]]>3. I was about five yards from the car when suddenly, erm, there was a noise of full acceleration and the car had shot forward, nearly ran me down so I leaped for my life.
I was absolutely shaken, because the car must have missed me well about half an inch or so, I mean, it just shot passed me and I saw my car smashed in front of my eyes.
Alice: Ah, how dreadful!
John: Yeah, just smashed into smithereens, pieces of car flying all over the road and, er, both cars, locked together, went down the road and there was a bend at the bottom on the road, and I thought,
"Well, the next thing is gonna be is a head-on collision."
Alice: Yes, of course.]]>4. Erm, but fortunately nothing came in the opposite direction. And, er, then the both cars went across the road and up a grass bank, which was quite a tall bank,
and, er, on the top of the bank there was a large hedge. Well, my car left the Lotus and literally took off and shot through the hedge, (Oh, Goodness!) and landed in a ploughed field. (Yeah) But the Lotus veered to
the left and got stuck in the hedge, in the thick part of the hedge. And, er, acceleration was still on full and the back wheels were tearing up the grass verge, throwing mud, and soil, earth, and grass all over the road.]]>5. Er, it was just, you know, absolutely terrifying.
Alice: Terrifying, yes. John: Yes, because the Lotus' radiator burst and there was steam everywhere, attack of black cloud of steam and smoke. And the first thing, erm, of course, we thought of doing was to get the driver out.
Alice: Well, of course, (Yes.) yes, quite.
John: So, erm, ... we tried to get the passenger door open. (Yes.) But it was locked. So, we had to climb through the hedge and, er, get round to the driving door.
But by that time there was so much steam we couldn't see. So, it was a matter of fumbling in the steam and smoke and thinking any moment the car was going to explode.
Alice: Yes. It wasn't on fire in fact at that point, was it?
John: No, no. It wasn't on fire.]]>6. But, erm, with the noise of the engine and all the steam were just, you know, very frightening.
Alice: How dreadful!
John: Well, we managed to get the driver out and turned the ignition off, we laid him in the mud, actually, because it was a ploughed field. (Yes.) And, er, I ran out in the road, shouted for help, and, er, a car driver told me that help was already on its way, and, er, I managed to get blankets from the people who stopped and we tried to make the man comfortable. And, er, a man appeared shortly afterwards and he was from a nearby American air base and, er, he was a medical man. So, he was able to
(Examine him.) examine him and, er, I helped him try to, you know, erm, make the man, well, you know, do all we could for the man.]]>7. Alice: He was unconscious, was he?
John: Yes, yes. And then the police arrived and a fire brigade. (Yes.) And, er, we were told to leave the scene by the police and go to the police station. And, er, there we had to make a statement.
Alice: Yes, of course.
John: And, er, I had to go breathalyzer test
Alice: Ah! But they thought you'd been in the car.
John: Because they thought, I'd been.
Alice: Of course, yes!
John: They automatically thought I'd been driving the car.
Alice: Yes, yes!
John: And, er, when I told them the story, they had to apologize for giving me a breathalyzer and then they said, "Gosh!", you know, (Yes.) "How incredible!"]]>8. Alice: So what happened to the man?
John: And, er, we were in the middle of making the statements and, er, the telephone rang, and the policeman, erm, was told that the man was dead. (Oh.)
And, er, and then two days later we had to attend the coroner's inquest, where we were told that the man had died of a heart attack and in fact he was dead, erm, before he crashed into my car, (Ah!) you know.
Alice: What an alarming story! How dreadful!
John: Yes.]]>