Thank you Mr Airbag inventor - Dateline 06 July 2009

As promised, here are the pictures of the car as they were about to tow it away, 06 July.

If you look carefully you can see on the passenger side (left side as you're looking at the pictures) where the main impact was, that being the Skoda that pulled out in front of me.

The dent more towards the drivers side was when the concrete pole got in the way, mind you I'd have gone through more than one garden had it not been there. :-)

Irrespective of anything else the main thing is that nobody was seriously injured and cars can be repaired, people are less fortunate.

And finally, as they say. Apart from the Skoda being there, the most scary thing is the actual airbags. Due to the gas they use it looks as though the car is on fire - it took a few mins for me to remember the difference, hey I had an excuse. Also can we have double air bags please, ones that go off twice. The second impact, which was probably only 25kph, hurt the most as the airbags blew when the Skoda came across the front of the car. So at that point it was seat belts only. I prefer airbags.

BIG THANKS to the rescue services in Slovakia who were really helpful and the nice people at A&E in Levoca, especially Dr Holly and his team.