Are you sitting confortably then I'll begin, one of my colleagues was reciting a story yesterday which he swears to be true. I may have got the facts wrong, and I know he reads this, so he can correct me if I live by my motto of 'never letting the truth get in the way of a good story.'
It was a dark wet night somewhere on a country road outside Dungannon. My colleague was driving along a notoriously dangerous stretch of road heading towards a bad 90 degree turn immediately after a small bridge.
He noticed something in the corner of his eye moving along the verge on his left, on closer inspection he realised it was a white greyhound bounding along and matching the speed of his car which was between 60 and 70. He now realises how silly it was to assume the dog could be doing this but at the time it didn't seem unusual.
Approaching the bridge the dog started to run in front of the car and slow to a trot forcing him to brake hard and slow down.
On the apex of the bridge with the dog fully visible in his headlights and travelling at under 10 miles an hour the dog disappeared.
On turning the bad bend what awaited him was a 6 car pile up with people out on the road trying to slow cars down. Undoubtedly due to his speed and road conditions he would have ploughed straight in to the accident without the intervention of the old white greyhound..........