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I was jet-lagged as hell, driving my little Toyota on the "wrong" side of the road, sitting on the "wrong" side of the car...and it was a stick. Utterly exhausted, I came around a blind corner, tried to downshift and stalled the car. As I sat in the middle of Castlemaine's town square, engine turning over, a petrol tanker came flying around the corner far above the speed limit, headed right for me. He slammed on his breaks, and just before the truck hit me, I managed to pop it into gear and peel out, squealing tires from both vehicles echoing throughout the village.

My second near-death experience in Ireland...my favorite country on Earth.

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neardeath , near death , kerry , castlemaine , petrol tanker , close call