Careless Driving

A Memory of Bromley.

About the time that this photo was taken the fence on the left hand side of the road was demolished in the middle of the night. An obviously tired local Member of Parliament, for the adjoining constituency, had fallen asleep at the wheel. My parents helped him out. Fortunately he was not badly hurt. For some reason he was keen that my Dad didn't phone the police. I assumed as a child that there was some evil reason for this, but of course, now that I am an adult, I have realised that he just didn't want to give them any trouble. I know that there was no other car involved in his accident. I'm not sure if there was a passenger. Sadly I wasn't woken up by the noise, having a bedroom at the back of our house, (just out of the photo) and so only heard about it in "not in front of the children" language the next morning.