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Bambam, you won’t believe this!…I was in the very van!…It was one of those thin VW (I think) vans!…Light blue if I remember right!…it had sliding doors on driver and passenger side!…We was coming home from work, from Romix on three sisters at around 5pm. Tony drove that van far too fast!…I was sat in the back which was a big space. About half way up Low Bank Road I climbed over into the front seat and sat in the passenger seat. And because of Tony’s fast driving I slid the passenger door shut as both sliding doors were open being summertime. Seat belts weren’t compulsory then. As Tony took the bend where Dag lives at a too fast speed, a wagon was coming the opposite way. Tony swerved to the left, as he said after the wagon was over the white middle line. The van went over onto my side of the van and Tony fell on top of me and squashed me against the door as the van slid along the road. God only knows what would have happened had I not shut that door. We had to climb up and lift ourselves up through the drivers door. Tony’s dad arrived not long after and Tony said it was Chris Boland speeding partly on his side of the road and had to swerve. But believe me it was Tony’s fault, he was mad in that van!…I sometimes think how lucky I was that day!