With a heavy frost and glistening roads, it was almost inevitable that we would get an RTC this morning.
Before the first spoonful of Cornflakes had made it out of the dish, my alerter springs into life. Shouts are rare at this time of day (07:43 to be precise) and the thought was that we must be off to an RTC.
I slipped and slid my way over to the station just as the PRT with Red Watch onboard edged gingerly out on to the road.
Considering how icy it was we got a crew of five pretty sharpish and headed off for Victoria Terrace, on the sea front in the south of Lowestoft.
As we pulled up it was difficult to see the vehicle involved. Then, as we pulled past the PRT, we could see a car on its passenger side, positioned perfectly between a lampost and a small tree. A stunt driver would never have been able to get the car into that space, especially considering the nearness of a 3 foot high wall!
It's difficult to understand exactly what happened or indeed follow the course the car and driver took to end in such a spot.
Take a look at the pics and see for yourself.
The driver was more shaken than injured and was fairly easily extricated through his sunroof. And good old Stab-Fast had an outing too - again you can see this in the pics.
And that was that. Back to Normanshurst through Lowestoft's rush hour and the chance to eat my thoroughly soggy Cornflakes.
Take a look at how the Alerter website is taking shape. You can now see brief reports of shouts that we attend - updated as soon as possible after our return and even install the Normanshurst Desktop Alerter.
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