Day 1.300: Accidental tourists

Yes, once again we witnessed the shock-and-awe tactics of the local emergency services today. At one point there were five police cars (including one unmarked one), a fire truck and an ambulance completely blocking more than a lane of this road. The serious incident they were attending? A one-vehicle, no-injury, no-obstruction (until the police arrived anyway) accident.

The only explanation we could think of was that the first policeman who arrived radioed everyone and said, "You'll never believe what this guy managed to do..." Somehow he left the road on the inside of a bend at right-angles and hit a tree. Amazing effort to leave the road like that, unlucky to make contact with anything, lucky that it was a tree and not the telegraph pole - he'd probably have got a ticket for damaging state property.

All this when all he really needed was a tow truck.

And sure enough, in the end one of those came to take his rather bent truck away.