So, erm, we tried to get the passenger door open (Yes), but it was locked, so we had to climb through the hedge, and er, get round to the driving door.

Well, by that time, there was so much steam we couldn't see, so it was a matter of fumbling in the, in the steam and smoke and thinking any moment the car was going to explode.

Yes, it wasn't on fire, in fact, at that point, was it? No, no, i wasn't on fire. But erm with the noise of the engine, and all the steam it was just you know, very frightening, (Oh, how dreadful)

Erm, well, we managed to get the driver out, turn the ignition off. We laid him in the mud actually because it was a ploughed field and er, I ran out in the road and shouted for help and erm, a car driver told me help, er. was already on its way

and erm, I managed to get blankets from people who had stoped and we tried to make the man comfortable and erm, a man appeared shortly afterwards and he was from nearby American airbase and he was a medical man, so he was able to erm, (examine him) examine him and er, I helped him, tried to, you know, make the man, er, well, you know, do all we could for the man.

He was unconscious, was he? Yes, yes, and then the police arrived, and the fire brigade (Yes) and er, er, we were told to leave the scene by the police and go to the police station and erm, there we had to make a statement.

(Yes, of course) I had to have a breathalyser test, and...But they thought you'd been in the car. And because, because they thought I'd, they automatically thought I'd been driving the car, (of course, yes) and, er, when I told them the story, they had to apologize for giving me a breathalyser and they said, Gosh, you know, how, how incredible.

So what happened to the man? And erm, we were in the middle of making the statements, and erm, the telephone rang and the policeman, erm, was told that the man was dead. (Oh)

And erm then two days later, we had to attend a Coroner's inquest where we were told that the man had died of a heart attack, and in fact, he was dead, erm, before he crashed into my car. Oh-h-h! What an alarming story, how dreadful! Yes.