Ted_D
New Member
Hi,
I've never posted on a forum before, let alone a forum of this subject. However I had quite an unfortunate experience on Saturday night. My brother and myself drove from Leeds to wales for a weekend seeing mutual friend (who had moved his life there to renovate an old farm house). the Friday night was short (it was a long drive to the destination), so we packed it in and called it a night.
Our mutual friend had bought an old farm house, in the middle of the welsh countryside, no neighbours, no phone signal, no internet, miles and miles of single track road, but a cracking view of the sea. the house was in a state of construction (basically a full blown building site).
I knew our mutual friend was somewhat emotionally unstable, but we went to support him in his new venture.
on the Saturday afternoon after a few pints at the bar, our friend started to get quite aggressive towards my brother (un provoked), this escalated over a few hours, until the decision to call it a night and get a taxi back to the house was decided, you know, go home go to bed!.
once back at the house, the situation turned for the worst, and I feared for not only my well being, but the life of my brother as at this point, the "mutual friend" started to violently assault my brother, and with all sorts of weapons around (tools of the trade) no phone signal, and I didn't quite know where we were , no neighbours (it was in a remote area of wales), I made the decision to pick my brother up off the floor, and throw him in the back of the car to escape. I knew id been drinking, but the life of me and my brother was more important than my licence at this point.
I drove down the country lanes carefully, and it took 10 - 15 minutes before I found somewhere safe to pull the car over (like I said, not easy in that part of wales)
just before pulling over, I clipped the car on a wall, and pulled immediately over (again single track lanes for miles, not easy)
my brother and I now shocked, scared and traumered from our experience we had just run from, got out of the car. that's when a police van pulled up behind me, and gave my the breathalyser test (I was not driving the car when Police came, and I certainly was not in it)
I blew a 73, and was taken to the police station. and as it was 12 pm, and I had asked for a solicitor to be in attendance, our interview was delayed until 10 pm the next morning. they didn't really care about our well being or for the situation we had just experienced, my brother had visibly injuries to his head and side.
knowing I did not intestinally get in the car, I did it in an extreme situation, where I had no other choice but to escape.
Ive been called to court in 2 weeks time, I've enlisted the help of a very expensive lawyer, as I need help to explain my situation. It could have got so much worse, and my brother or myself could have ended up with life changing injuries, or even worse, you just don't know.
I hope that I can battle through this, I have a good career ahead of me, and cannot afford to laydown and accept It.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Ted
I've never posted on a forum before, let alone a forum of this subject. However I had quite an unfortunate experience on Saturday night. My brother and myself drove from Leeds to wales for a weekend seeing mutual friend (who had moved his life there to renovate an old farm house). the Friday night was short (it was a long drive to the destination), so we packed it in and called it a night.
Our mutual friend had bought an old farm house, in the middle of the welsh countryside, no neighbours, no phone signal, no internet, miles and miles of single track road, but a cracking view of the sea. the house was in a state of construction (basically a full blown building site).
I knew our mutual friend was somewhat emotionally unstable, but we went to support him in his new venture.
on the Saturday afternoon after a few pints at the bar, our friend started to get quite aggressive towards my brother (un provoked), this escalated over a few hours, until the decision to call it a night and get a taxi back to the house was decided, you know, go home go to bed!.
once back at the house, the situation turned for the worst, and I feared for not only my well being, but the life of my brother as at this point, the "mutual friend" started to violently assault my brother, and with all sorts of weapons around (tools of the trade) no phone signal, and I didn't quite know where we were , no neighbours (it was in a remote area of wales), I made the decision to pick my brother up off the floor, and throw him in the back of the car to escape. I knew id been drinking, but the life of me and my brother was more important than my licence at this point.
I drove down the country lanes carefully, and it took 10 - 15 minutes before I found somewhere safe to pull the car over (like I said, not easy in that part of wales)
just before pulling over, I clipped the car on a wall, and pulled immediately over (again single track lanes for miles, not easy)
my brother and I now shocked, scared and traumered from our experience we had just run from, got out of the car. that's when a police van pulled up behind me, and gave my the breathalyser test (I was not driving the car when Police came, and I certainly was not in it)
I blew a 73, and was taken to the police station. and as it was 12 pm, and I had asked for a solicitor to be in attendance, our interview was delayed until 10 pm the next morning. they didn't really care about our well being or for the situation we had just experienced, my brother had visibly injuries to his head and side.
knowing I did not intestinally get in the car, I did it in an extreme situation, where I had no other choice but to escape.
Ive been called to court in 2 weeks time, I've enlisted the help of a very expensive lawyer, as I need help to explain my situation. It could have got so much worse, and my brother or myself could have ended up with life changing injuries, or even worse, you just don't know.
I hope that I can battle through this, I have a good career ahead of me, and cannot afford to laydown and accept It.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Ted