Oh well, I suppose it was too good to last. I really thought we would get away without having a car accident. Thank God it wasn't serious and nobody was injured.

Last Saturday we drove 95kms on the Pan-American Highway to a beach, where we had a booking in a reasonably priced hotel for the night.

Just when we were nearly at our destination we had to turn left off the highway. In order to do this we were required to stop in the fast lane, with the indicator on, until the other carraigeway was clear.

We had barely stopped when we heard a screech of tires followed by a loud bang and we were pushed two metres forward.

Nobody was injured, Katie started crying because she thought she would not get to the beach.

The back of the car is quite badly damaged, whereas the SUV that hit us suffered damage only to the bullbar.

My lovely Lancer!