No I don't mean road rage, I mean actually lose control of his vehicle and leave the road. It was on the A281 coming downhill towards Broadbridge Heath. There were two cars a little way ahead of me which I didn't take too much notice of initially, but then I noticed something odd about the rear lights of the front car. It was then I saw the car leaving the road and heading off into the undergrowth before coming to a halt. After I passed I took advantage of a gap in the traffic following me to turn around and walk back up the hill to check the driver was ok. By sheer luck he had come off the road in one of the few places where there is a gap in the trees and he had come to rest on a flat patch of muddy ground. He was ok, a bit shaken up, he said he had no idea what happened, his car was still driveable and he managed to get back on to the road; luckily we have had little rain for nearly a fortnight otherwise he would have been bogged down in the mud.
I'm puzzled as to how it happened as the road doesn't bend very sharply there, it was a mild evening so no ice, the driver must have overtaken me previously and I didn't notice anyone going past at excessive speed. The only thing I can think of is that the rain today after the dry spell has resulted in a thin layer of slippery gunge on the road surface and perhaps the driver hit an unusually slippery patch, although that wouldn't explain why everyone else including myself managed to navigate the road without issue.
I'm puzzled as to how it happened as the road doesn't bend very sharply there, it was a mild evening so no ice, the driver must have overtaken me previously and I didn't notice anyone going past at excessive speed. The only thing I can think of is that the rain today after the dry spell has resulted in a thin layer of slippery gunge on the road surface and perhaps the driver hit an unusually slippery patch, although that wouldn't explain why everyone else including myself managed to navigate the road without issue.
