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Reply to "Not So Awesome Fall Run - Part 2"

Second, here's the story: Picture yourself on an autumn postcard road with a nice straight line going down a valley, your looking ahead, sighing from the oranges, yellows and greens with the bleu cloudless sky, you see a yellow color caused by the color changing leaves not the normal 11 am color.
There is a long distance in front of me, before the next Pantera. Next, we are driving in the bottom of the valley, so I don't see the cars further then Carmen's rear witch is getting closer, who, by now is locking the brakes, you can see the smoke coming up, so I rammed my brake pedal, the car pulled immediately to the right and was already on the side road gravel, at that point the rear caught up to the front (180°) I was not going fast, so I was not scared for my life. But I was pissed, ever so pissed at my lack of control. Then MY Pantera slides sideways into the ditch and slowly toppled over.

Looking ahead of me I saw straw and water, and throw my mirror, oil dripping down from the rear hood, I unhooked my seat belt; man! the Pantera is spacious, upside down you can lie flat on the padded roof! Still pissed, I tried to open the door, my left hand slipped, I smelled the air (because we had just fueled our cars), no gas fumes, ‘good’, tried the door a second time, it open with ease, I came out of my upside down Pantera, just like that, upside down, climbed up the ditch, looked to my right and saw Gilles, Gaetan's friend running towards me. I turned left, threw my sun glassed in the gravel, witch had stayed in place on my face, sat down on the rocks, stood back right up and walked toward Gilles. By then, the rest of the team, caught up a few seconds later, 911 was already called. A few minutes later a fire rescue van was passing by and stopped to help, asking me the first consciousness questions...and then, while I was checked by the medics, David, Carmen, Gaetano, Gilles and Gaetan where making sure the towing driver was doing exactly what they asked.
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