A really close call.

[geckoGT]

On wednesday night we were traveling down the road, on our way to refuel the ambulance. We were traveling down a major road, 2 lanes each way and there was a nice wide service lane on the left of us (we were in the left lane). It had been raining heavily so the roads were very wet and it was approximately 9 pm.

Out of the corner of my eye my attention was drawn to a flash of light, I turned just in time to see a large australian sedan (no going to say which make) bounce over the median strip at high speed and heading towards our vehicle, at least 4 feet in the air. Fortunately I was able to both accelerate and swerve left which kept out vehicle out of the way and the car went skidding past, narrowly missing the back of our vehicle. Taking into account where this happened, the closest intersection in his direction of travel was 100-200m behind him, the only reason I can see for his slide was hooning, he had to be doing 100 km/h+ to get airborne the way he did, it was a 70 zone.

Unfortunately the car following behind us was not so lucky and they clipped the sliding car. They were able to swerve right and only had the front left corner of their car clip the back of the sliding car.

The sliding car then hit the curb very hard and came to a stop on our side of the road behind the motorist that was following us. I immediately switched on our emergency lights (for safety) and turned around to go back to the crashed vehicles. As we did this, the car that had caused the whole mess reversed back onto the road and attempted to leave. Although I turned across the road to try and prevent him from doing a runner he managed to pass behind our vehicle and drove off.

Luckily our vehicle was not hit, but that was purely because of my evasive actions, had I not seen him the car would have hit us, probably on my drivers side door. The couple in the other car were unharmed but their car was seriously damaged with the front left suspension broken off from the impact. Not that the idiot in the car that had slid across a number of lanes, bounced over a median strip, nearly killed an ambulance crew and an innocent couple would know any of that, he was too gutless to stay around and do the right thing.

The bad news for him is in the process of all this his front bumper came off, so not only do we have the license number, we have the whole damn plate. Needless to say the police have those details. The other couple and all three officers on our vehicle are more than happy to make a statement to police and we are all pushing for maximum effort tracking this fool down.

If anyone here know who this person may be, tell him to man up and take responsibility for his stupidity. Causing an accident through stupidity is bad enough, but running from it without offering any assistance to the victims is appalling.

I am just glad that none of my crew were injured and we all managed to go home to our families at the end of the shift.