Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
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On a motorway three years ago. An HGV hadn’t seen me and pulled out. My father-in-law’s a truck driver and he said black cars are not very visible. I don’t drive them any more.
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