Tearing down the M6 yesterday in the howling winds. A truck blew onto it`s side about 100 yards ahead.
I slipped into movie mode and just like James Bond I dropped a gear, swerved to the right and avoided it. My manouvre would have been extremely successful but for the fact that just as i passed the truck cab, the driver decided to raise open his door like a submarine hatch and then launch himself from the cab to the safety of the floor. He never found the floor.
Instead he found the bonnet of my car and as he found himself splayed across my bonnet he looked straight at me with a quizical expression.
Given I was in movie mode, I had him down as the arch villain who was desparately seeking to cause me to lose control of the car. I swerved from lane to lane, drawing grim satisfaction from the shape of his nose pressed against my windscreen and the fact that his quizical expression had now become one of utter terror.
As with all baddies, he was difficult to shake loose. Suddenly I braked, confident that this would shake free his hold of my wing mirrors.
I was half right. He flew forwards from my bonnet but took the wing mirrors with him. The volicity carried him through the air, across the central reservation and smack onto the front of an articulated truck. His body hit it just below the windscreen and his hands, still gripping the wing mirrors hit the windscreen. The mirrors acted as suckers, enabling him to hang on.
The driver now found himself staring at two oblique reflections of himself which caused him to believe that he was hallucinating. He braked hard and the man flew forward from the windscreen, mirrors still in hand.
He held his hands to his head in a futile attempt at self protection as he flew, once again, across the central reservation.
Unbelievably, he landed through the open door of the cab which he had jumped from a few minutes ago.
Moments later the Police arrived and appealed for witnesses. They could not work out how the driver appeared to have been stuck in his cab yet had grown two BMW wing mirors from the side of his head.
Now they know.