Blues and Queues

On Thursday we suffered delays on the A for a while because of an accident at the White Swan - apparently two cars ran into the back of an ambulance (because of course ambulances are so hard to see! :-S)

We first heard of the delays through a phone call from Steve, who was heading towards Botley at the time. Nothing odd about that you may think, except that when he rung us Steve was sat in the queue, couldn't yet see the accident and ordinarily wouldn't have known what the problem was.

So what happened? Well, it seems a police woman driving her patrol car in the other direction away from the accident scene, actually pulled up alongside Steve's bus, opened her window and suggested to Steve that he might like to ring his company (ie. us) to warn us of the likely problems, before closing her window and continuing on her way.

I have never ever come across this before, so just wanted to big up the policewoman concerned and offer full marks and a bonus for having the presence of mind to do that! Awesome!