Creative "Accidents"

While out driving yesterday I came across a very peculiar scene of a car that was lying at rest on the top of the guard railing, upright, facing frontwards with its hind quarters resting against the embankment behind . There was virtually no damage to the railing, and the bend was so slight that Lewis Hamilton could have taken it at 300 kph.

How on earth was that possible? There were two middle age women sitting beside the road waiting for assistance, but I'm sure if I asked them how they were able to do that they wouldn't have a clue.

That's the third car I have come across sitting on the rails, and for only one was it evident how it got there. That one simply drove itself up the rail as the driver must have been distracted. The car had gone off the tarmac, and just before reaching a ravine it caught the rail with the left-side front and back wheels. Somehow, these became wedged leaving the right side of the car suspended out over the ravine.

I think the occupants of that car have spoken of this incident every day, even if only to themselves as that  would definitely have got their attention.

The other car I saw sitting on the railings was a station wagon. The railings were dividing the centre of opposing lanes of traffic, with oleander trees planted in between. Somehow this car had got itself up and across the railings where it sat snugly. The railing on my side was undamaged but I couldn't see the other side. Fortunately the car sat so that it didn't impede traffic on either side. A family sat huddled and terrified in among the oleanders awaiting assistance.

How did the do it? I feel sure that if I Google "strange accidents" there would turn up lots of other examples. I must do that one day.

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Eugene Carmichael