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To get up before 7 is very early for a holiday, in our opinion. But we have a long trip planned and it is holiday, so we are ready for it.
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Elisabeth & Teije2004-03-06 15:59:39
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Wednesday, June 18 Groningen - Wroclaw (930 km)
To get up before 7 is very early for a holiday, in our opinion. But we have a long trip planned and it is holiday, so we are ready for it. The hours and kilometres are flying by and sometimes we see the sun peek through the cloudy sky. Everything is going very well, so we think...
We have been surprised sometimes that, with all the kilometres we make in holidays, we have seen relatively few accidents. Well, probably it was all saved for today. It starts with a totally distorted car being dragged away from the Autobahn. Next a car lying upside down in a ditch. Some cars have stopped but there is still no police or ambulance.
Before Potsdam (near Berlin) we enter a traffic jam and a whole piece of the highway has been closed because of an accident. Then we suddenly see ambulances, fire squads, police cars and helicopters coming through the traffic jam. They come from all directions and they are going everywhere, a real chaos. Then we see why: on the other side of the road a truck has driven into a bus. It is awful and we can only think of the passengers of that bus. We try, but cannot, imagine how terrible this accident must have been. We read about accidents like this in the paper but it is a shock to see such an image just after it happened. For more than an hour we hear sirenes from all directions. This looks bad.
On the radio we hear that a truck driver has driven into the traffic jam, hit the bus which then hit another truck. The truck driver is dead, 35 are injured, of whom 10 very seriously. We realise again how relative life is.
This image of the truck drilled into the bus will remain with us for some time, but it also makes us realise that we don't always control our own lives, however carefully one can be, and that it is important to treasure every minute of it.
Because of all the accidents and closed roads we have
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