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North Essex: Strood driver saved

6:17am Monday 30th June 2008

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By Chris Wilkin »

A DRIVER was pulled free by firefighters after her car smashed through barriers on a causeway, landing in the water.

Emergency services faced a race against time to save the woman, whose car veered off The Strood, the road from Peldon to Mersea Island, with the tide rising.

The woman, believed to be in her 30s, was pulled to safety just after the water reached the car's windows.

She taken by helicopter to Colchester General Hospital.

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Mohammed, Riyadh says...
12:02pm Mon 30 Jun 08

And this is why Saudi Arabia is right to ban women from driving. I expect she was applying make-up and talking on the phone at the time.

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Ali, Essex says...
12:29pm Mon 30 Jun 08

Thank goodness you weren't there Mohammed! I'm sure you would be most useful if a crisis. Next time why not leave a positive comment, such as I'm glad she was ok (I was there). I'm so glad you're in Riyadh and not here.

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richard Miller, London says...
12:53pm Mon 30 Jun 08

Mohammed wrote:
And this is why Saudi Arabia is right to ban women from driving. I expect she was applying make-up and talking on the phone at the time.

Mohammed,the lady in question was not applying her make up or on the phone. How do i know? because i know her. Keep your stupid and unhelpful comments to your self you brainless idiot.by the way i bet your single.

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richard Miller, London says...
12:59pm Mon 30 Jun 08

actually mohammed the accident was caused by a piece of timber falling of a van. and smashing through her windscreen. ps i bet your single with a attitude like that.

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Mohammed, Riyadh says...
1:09pm Mon 30 Jun 08

I am not single. I have seven wives and two hundred camels.

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richard Miller, London says...
1:31pm Mon 30 Jun 08

well if you have 7 wives, you should know better than to make sexist and stupid remarks shouldn't you.

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Groundown George, Doghouse says...
1:41pm Mon 30 Jun 08

Mohammed wrote:
I am not single. I have seven wives and two hundred camels.

Probably driven ga-ga by all those wives.

One done it for me

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Norm, Colchester says...
1:43pm Mon 30 Jun 08

Did the bit of wood hit the car? If so, you'd think that the reporter would include an important detail like that in the story rather than just writing that she veered off the road.

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Mohammed, Riyadh says...
1:47pm Mon 30 Jun 08

Richard, I apologies profoundly for upsetting. Please accept 50 camels as compensation for the injustice I have bestowed upon you. Just let me know where to post them to. My seven wives agree that they don't like my sexist and stupid remarks, but they appreciate the fact that I can satisfy all of them in the bedroom department. It also means there are more of them to make my meals, prepare my clothes and tend to my every need, which shares the workload considerably.

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Nigel Barton, Harlow says...
3:09pm Mon 30 Jun 08

I think Mohammed needs to think before he makes comments like that. The person involved in this accident is a very good friend of mine.

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Nigel Barton, says...
3:11pm Mon 30 Jun 08

I am just thankful that she was not seriously hurt!!

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Nic, Essex says...
3:25pm Mon 30 Jun 08

I completly agree with Richard the lady in question is my best friend and would never put herself or other road users in danger by doing any of the things Mohammed has said. The problem as Richard has quite rightly put is the car that was coming towards her with a plank of wood on its roof and had not tied it down correctly which came flying towards hitting her car her making her car veer off the road. the other driver then proceded to drive off without a care for the lady in question this maybe why this was not mentioned in the report!
If you dont have anything nice to say why bother saying anything.

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Norm, Colchester says...
3:52pm Mon 30 Jun 08

If this car that the plank of wood fell off then drove off, wouldn't that be the very essence of the story. An appeal for witnesses, a description of the car etc...? I don't understand why the wouldn't mention it unless they've already arrested someone for it. Answers on a postcard please.

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Paul, Colchester says...
4:25pm Mon 30 Jun 08

And i bet there was no sign of the offending timber after the accident, the things people will come up with to try and cover their own backsides instead of taking responsibility for their own actions!

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eye witness, says...
4:44pm Mon 30 Jun 08

The report in the paper is mostly nonsense (as usual). As a member of the emergency services at the scene, I can confirm that the lady was not "pulled free by firefighters" neither was she "trapped in the vehicle" and the water level was nowhere near the car's windows or the car itself come to that! Where do they get their information? Certainly not from people who were there at the time. They just make it up for dramatic effect to sell newspapers.

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Bob, Harwich says...
5:09pm Mon 30 Jun 08

The Gazette getting its facts all wrong. Imagine that. Its unheard of....NOT!

Its about time that the editors and the reporters were brought to task over all the rubbish that they write.

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Norm, Colchester says...
5:15pm Mon 30 Jun 08

Eye Witness, what was the story about the plank of wood that had smashed through her windscreen? Is any of that true?

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eye witness, says...
5:43pm Mon 30 Jun 08

I can confirm that the windscreen was smashed but not having seen the incident happen, I can't comment on the truth of the plank of wood!

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jinx, colchester says...
6:26pm Mon 30 Jun 08

i think"mohammed" is a wind up merchant and all the women once again took the bait!!!

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Country Lass, Tendring says...
11:42pm Mon 30 Jun 08

When my sister was involved in a car accident a few years ago, a newspaper reported that she had been transfered to an intensive care unit for specialist treatment.
Thank goodness this was not true, but the report caused brief ditress to my family until we were able to speak to hospital staff. Embellishing facts to create a more newsworthy story can have consequences!

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Trunkymunghound, Essex says...
7:30am Tue 1 Jul 08

jinx wrote:
i think"mohammed" is a wind up merchant and all the women once again took the bait!!!
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Really?

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Mohammed, Riyadh says...
11:01am Tue 1 Jul 08

Thank you Jinx for your kind words my friend. I do not think that Dicky Miller is a woman but I could be wrong. Here in Saudi Arabia, we just look for the people dressed in black burkhas to identify woman. Maybe it is not as easy in UK.

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Debby, Mersea says...
3:22pm Tue 1 Jul 08

Paul wrote:
And i bet there was no sign of the offending timber after the accident, the things people will come up with to try and cover their own backsides instead of taking responsibility for their own actions!

The piece of wood was recovered by the police (I saw them moving it while I was waiting for my sister to be brought up to the ambulance!) and pieces of it were embedded in the windscreen of the car. Isn't it amazing how someone can judge a person they don't know so quickly and make assumptions??!! I'd just like to say a huge thanks to the emergency services who helped my sister and who were so kind. You were all brilliant! And thank you to the passers by who stopped and went down to the car. I just hope the van driver comes forward or is caught.

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van man, colchester says...
3:42pm Tue 1 Jul 08

Just admit it, only an idiot would drive into the water. Personally i would stamp on the brake pedal, but hey, i am not a dozy woman!
At least own up to your mistakes.

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nic, essex says...
4:59pm Tue 1 Jul 08

van man wrote:
Just admit it, only an idiot would drive into the water. Personally i would stamp on the brake pedal, but hey, i am not a dozy woman! At least own up to your mistakes.

Why dont you keep your nasty coments to yourself, When you have a massive piece of wood coming towards you that has smashed your windscreen i dont think you really have time to think about where you are going. Has no one got any respect for other people and their feelings she could have been seriously hurt or even worse !
Doesnt bear thinking about really i would hate to be someone you know if thats your feelings !!

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Mohammed, Riyadh says...
5:08pm Tue 1 Jul 08

And how big is 'massive' piece of wood in the UK? I am from Saudi Arabia and we have big wood here too - just ask anyone of my seven wives.

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sunny, essex says...
8:58am Wed 2 Jul 08

thick as 2 planks wooden head

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Debby, Mersea says...
1:38pm Wed 2 Jul 08

van man wrote:
Just admit it, only an idiot would drive into the water. Personally i would stamp on the brake pedal, but hey, i am not a dozy woman! At least own up to your mistakes.

Only an idiot would write that comment and would drive a van with a piece of wood the size of a door unsecured on the roof. I honestly cannot believe the heartless comments that very sad, nasty people have gone out of their way to post on here. It's no surprise 'van man' didn't give their name...maybe they are the person who should be coming forward.

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Nigel, Harlow says...
2:41pm Wed 2 Jul 08

I agree with both Nic and Debbie. Some of these comments are heartless. If this had been some one you care about would you have have been so quick to make these comments? I doubt it!!!

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Norm, Colchester says...
10:02am Thu 3 Jul 08

Shut it Nigel, you muppet.

Free speech. That's what made this country great.

This board has a healthy degree of scepticism because we know how often the Gazette inaccurately reports events.

Over and out numpty Nigel.

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richard Miller, london says...
10:58am Thu 3 Jul 08

Norm,

Nigel is not talking about the gazette being inaccurate, he is talking about if someone you knew had the accident, would you want idiots saying stupid comments?

Try reading his post again, if you cant read it get a grown up to read it for you.

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Norm, Colchester says...
12:06pm Thu 3 Jul 08

Richard,

I do apologise for misinterpreting your boyfriend's comment in any way, shape or form - NOT.

The Gazette has a tendency to exaggerate stories as demonstrated by the comments from one of the rescuers detailed above.

So take your schoolboy insults somewhere else knobjockey.

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Debby, Mersea says...
1:59pm Thu 3 Jul 08

I think you'll find that Richard, Nigel, Nic and myself are simply hurt by the comments that have been posted on here. It's difficult not to take it personally when we know the driver of the car. I know that some of the reporting by the gazette was inaccurate, but as I said in a previous comment, the wood was recovered by the police and pieces of it were embedded in the windscreen of the car.
The trouble is that people make comments without knowing any of the facts.
Norm, your insults sound more schoolboy to me than any others I've read!

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richard Miller, London says...
2:34pm Thu 3 Jul 08

Norm,

your a prat, you keep proving it with each pointless comment you feel you need to make. but what do you expect coming from essex, you seem to have problems. i would suggest a trip to the doctor.

take someone who knows where there going, so you dont get lost.

you make me very glad, not to have the problems you have if you cant find sympathy for someone in car crash i suggest you crawl back under the stone from where you came from.

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Brian, Maldon says...
2:35pm Thu 3 Jul 08

Hmmm...tricky. Dicky's insult: "if you cant read it get a grown up to read it for you..." Norm's insult: "So take your schoolboy insults somewhere else knobjockey." Sorry Debby, but I think Dicky's got the prize for the schoolboy insult in the bag. Norm's was more of a dismissive insult IMHO.

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Norm, Colchester says...
2:41pm Thu 3 Jul 08

Awwww, poor little Dicky Miller - did I touch a nerve with the knobjockey comment?

'your a prat' - hmmm, I think you will find that you meant to write 'you're' or 'you are' not 'your'.

'where there going' - 'they're' or 'they are' perhaps?

What happened, did you forget to go to school as a child?

How are the anger management classes going anyway you retarded numpty?

Good to see you slagging off every single person from Essex in your last post above as well.

By the way, do people tease you and call you Windy at work?

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Louise Wyles, BRENTWOOD says...
3:32pm Sat 5 Jul 08

I am SO RELIEVED that my neice wasnt seriously hurt in the accident - Due to the thoughtlessness and stupidity of another road user this incident could of had a much more of a disasterous or fatel ending.

I guess most of you readers are too young to remember that this is a very simular accident to what happened to the ALLO ALLO actor GORDON KAYE in 1990....He had a piece of wood come through his window screen & received brain injuries as a result!!!!! "Kaye suffered serious head injuries in a car accident during the Burns' Day storm on 25 January 1990. Although he cannot remember any details of the incident, he still has a scar on his forehead from a piece of wooden advertising boarding that smashed through the car windscreen".

Why are people so quick to judge the victim of the incident as the the cause????

I accept that the Gazette really didnt help by reporting barely half the story correctly. But why is it that if it had been a man who had ended up in this accident people try to say there would of been nothing that he could of done to avoid it,Yet if its a women involved some people feel compelled to attack her and attempt to lay blame wrongly at her door ????? LEAVE MY NEICE ALONE!!! - SHE DID THE VERY BEST SHE COULD IN A NIGHTMARE SITUATION......
I would like to thank all the emergency services that attended and also everyone who came to help and all those of you who havent jumped to conclusions upon how the accident occured without being in FULL receipt of ALL the facts....

Hope you have a speedy recovery honey love and hugs Auntie Lou & Crew ****

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Emma Smith, South Woodham Ferrers says...
10:59am Mon 7 Jul 08

I think its incredibly sad that so much information is missing from this article and that people are so quick to fill in the gaps themselves.
Surely The Gazette should be working with the local police to help trace the dangerous driver of the oncoming vehicle that failed to stop at the scene.
Thankfully the driver of the car is relatively ok but this could have had a much worse outcome, hopefully the other driver will come forward and accept responsibiliity for nearly killing this young mum of 2.

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