Seconds away from misery

[firebobby]

Went to Oxford earlier and on our way home up the M40, we were coming off at a junction. I was in lane one and we were following a caravan at about 55-60, a few hundred yards form the junction, a car over taking us in lane 3 just veered from lane 3 straight up the rear end of the caravan.
The car must have been doing 80 and the impact smashed the caravan into the rear of the tow car, the caravan went across the hard shoulder and into the verge, it then over turned in front of us and ended on it's side across lane 1.
I quickly pulled in front of the mayhem (never sit behind an accident as you can be there a very long time if they shut the road) and got out to check the occupants of the car that had hit the van as there was a lot of smoke inside it, the driver got out and said he had 2 kids in the back, I quickly got them out and found the smoke was from the airbags, they were all OK. The people from the tow car came back up the motorway a bit shook up, the force of the impact had severed the tow hitch from his LR freelander and pushed the LR into the nearside barrier. Waited for the cavalry to turn up and left.
A few seconds earlier and he could have taken us out instead of the caravan unit