Blimey that was close.

This little tale demonstrates how thing beyond your control can be rather alarming.Along with friends we,ve had a great weekend up at the CC site at Coniston and now were heading back down the M6 in convoy on our way home.My mate is in front and i,ve got the cruise control on doing a steady 60mph.Its sunday so not too busy and its a fine day.Anyway as we roll along i have noticed there is a steady stream of cars passing me that are towing jet ski.s on small trailers.I remark too the missus that there must have been a competition on somewhere up the lakes.

As we role along i hear what sounds like a faint rumbleing noise from somewhere and as i look in my mirror a small 4x4 icomeing up on my right towing one of these small trailers.As it gets level with me i notice that the jockey wheel has come loose on the trailer and has dropped down and is bouncing on the road.I look up at the driver who is a young girl with her boyfriend asleep in the front passenger seat.Now i can hear the noise from the j/wheel but the driver seems completely oblivious (maybe they had music on).The 4x4 is doing around 65mph so you can imagine what revs the 6inch jockey wheel is doing.I tell my missus too warn my mate in front then just as the 4x4 gets past me the jockey wheel sheared off.It came bouncing out from under the trailer between both the vans and then bounced over my bonnet onto the hard shoulder and up the banking.My god i thought if that had hit my windscreen or one of the vans the damage would have been conciderable.The 4x4 carried on as if nothing had happened and disappeared up the moddle lane.

An example of how helpless you can be in certan circumtances.

peter.