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@SwissChap
Saw a Micra lose control this morning. Road is a bit narrow, with the edge not really visible beneath mud and a bit of standing water. The driver probably felt the car slip off the edge on the left side, accelerated and turned right a bit, the car regained traction a bit too suddenly and just shot forward and turned sharp right, coming to a stand-still perpendicularly across the other lane, with the nose in the embankment.
That was an oncoming car too, so if I'd been about 50m further on, I'd have been well and truly fucked. But hey, nothing you can really do anything about... as it was at least, no one was hurt apart from the car's front bumper getting a pretty big dent from a wooden post demarcating the side of the road.