Posted by Ben | Posted in Holiday Parks | Posted on 20-11-2009
Tags: accidents, mini
The iconic MINI Cooper is usually associated with Michael Caine and the legendary film The Italian Job, which demonstrated the almost weightless agility of the vehicle; not a Devon holiday park disaster with Herby-esque events. A man and his wife were whiling away some time in their tent at a camp site in East Devon when a MINI came careering down the hill, over their tent and ended up in a toilet block! The couple must have thanked their lucky stars that it was the teeniest of vehicles that rudely intruded a brief kip in their holiday abode. Imagine if it had been a Hummer! The woman was said to be in shock after the event, and the man unfortunately suffered a couple of fractured ribs. Personally, if I had to chose any vehicle to get run over by that wasn’t made by Matchbox or Hotwheels, it would be the MINI.
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