Scottish Mini Cooper accident at Knockhill
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Some folk have hearts of flint. Small, dry, jagged bits of flint. They find it impossible to empathise with the suffering of others.

Take this footage from Knockhill, for example. The driver’s not crying. The interviewer’s not crying. But me? I was bawling my headlights out when I saw this beautiful* MINI landing on its roof, minus a few vital bits of its anatomy.

It was grisly. It looked like an episode of CSI Miami. Or at least it would do if southern Florida looked more like Dunfermline.

I’d like to think that if I came a cropper in a ditch somewhere, grieving people across the length and breadth of the country would be burying their greetin’ faces into their wee hankies.

What I wouldn’t expect is for someone to say on YouTube that I’d be as right as rain again after a quick rub down with a chamois leather.

The only thing that came close to offsetting the horror here was the fact that they’d misspelled Knockhill as Konckhill. Which I like a lot. They should make it official.

*But aren’t we all?