I’m seriously wondering if I should move. In the last 48 hours there have been two dangerous accidents within half a mile of where I live just off the King’s Road, Chelsea.
The second was just at the bottom of our street this morning. Two cars and a motor bike were involved and one of cars caught fire – I don’t know if anyone was hurt.
The first was when I was walking down the road to meet friends. An old green Porsche hit a group of pedestrians. A poor 33-year-old woman has since died from serious head injuries, after being taken to hospital in the air ambulance. Three other people were hurt.
You can see some (very bad) pictures of the scene taken on my mobile, but you can’t see that the car managed to demolish a 250 year old wall and knock down some very solid iron railings, too. The driver is in his sixties, apparently, and there’s some speculation that he passed out before the accident.
What is almost incredible is that people manage to drive fast enough to cause accidents in an area which is always congested on Saturday afternoon and Monday morning.
Drayton – that is terrible. You wouldn’t expect Kings Road to have so many fatalities.
After all, it’s not the type of road where you would expect a lot of speeding traffic is it?
I hope the idiot in the green porsche gets locked up for dangerous driving.
I was nearly run over in the King’s Road recently. I knocked on the dark window of the 4×4 to tell the driver that we had a law in this country about letting pedestrians cross the road and received a reply that sounded like a string of Russian obscenities. I made my excuses and left meekly before they pulled a gun!
Wasn’t it the King’s Road where a guy going way too fast on a motorbike hit Sir Bob Geldof’s car recently while Sir Bob was trying to do a u-turn?
There’s a lot to be said for just setting off 5 minutes earlier and not risking your life and those of other people isn’t there?
About 5 years ago. I had to swiftly pull my foot back onto the curb when a blur in a convertible shot past me. I told my sister, whom I was visiting and lives off the King’s Road, that the driver had Prince Harry’s build and hair. She said it was probably him as he spent a lot of time in Chelsea. Oddly I feel a better about my near miss with fatality as it was the closest brush I’d ever had with (suspected) royalty.
Bloody hell, Chrissie, that’s carrying patriotism a bit far!