Friday night around midnight, on the autopista from Barcelona heading over to France.
Policeman stands in the middle of the 3 lane motorway waving a red lit baton - so I come to a stop.
Cars in all directions, around 10 involved. Life changing injuries but no deaths. A few ambulances and fire trucks arrive quickly, and all casualties are moved over the ambulaces in the hard shoulder. Within half an hour, the autopista is ready for re-opening. Scary they sort it so quick, they must be very used to major accidents.
Plod cones off lane 1 after the crashed cars are pushed out of the way by the firemen. so the road was open again.
Wrong. I was driving off slowly - plod comes running over the tarmac screaming at me. He told me to wait for the 'bouy'. I now know that to re-open a motorway I need to wait for plod to wave a white lit baton. I honestly thought I was going to get locked up.
Policeman stands in the middle of the 3 lane motorway waving a red lit baton - so I come to a stop.
Cars in all directions, around 10 involved. Life changing injuries but no deaths. A few ambulances and fire trucks arrive quickly, and all casualties are moved over the ambulaces in the hard shoulder. Within half an hour, the autopista is ready for re-opening. Scary they sort it so quick, they must be very used to major accidents.
Plod cones off lane 1 after the crashed cars are pushed out of the way by the firemen. so the road was open again.
Wrong. I was driving off slowly - plod comes running over the tarmac screaming at me. He told me to wait for the 'bouy'. I now know that to re-open a motorway I need to wait for plod to wave a white lit baton. I honestly thought I was going to get locked up.
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