高考英语二轮九十天强化训练:阅读理解25
阅读理解
Tim Gardner,a driver,was trapped in his vehicle after a tree fell down onto it.But he managed to get out before it became a fireball.
Gardner said, “I know I am a very lucky man.”
The father-of-two was driving along Hewell Lane on Saturday afternoon when the strange accident happened.Gardner who works for Rhodia in Oldbury,said the weather was clear and everything was going well until something strange caught his eye.
“I saw this tree sliding down the steep(陡峭的)bank in the corner of my eye,”he said. “At first I thought it was a branch and I braked to avoid it.But the next thing I knew,the car stopped,the airbags had gone off,the windscreen broke,and smoke was coming out.”
Gardner remembered being struck by how strangely quiet it was before pain attacked his leg.
“I thought,‘God,I’m alive-I’ve got to get out of the car.’My leg was trapped on the pedals(踏板)and I put my weight on the door to open it and got out onto the road.I called 999 but by then the car was on fire,”he said.
He had been returning home after helping a friend with some work when the accident happened.Gardner is grateful no one else was in the vehicle.
Gardner was taken to the Alexandra Hospital.His insurance company E-Sure had said the accident was an act of God.He will receive the market value of the vehicle.
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