Gabby Logan has recalled getting into a car crash with Kirsty Gallacher after having a heated debate with her long-time friend about music.
TV presenter Logan, 50, lost control of her convertible car as she fumbled around for CDs.
The car then spun out of control close to the Gallacher family home and narrowly avoided oncoming traffic and a telegraph pole before coming to rest in a roadside ditch.While Logan, 50, came out of the incident unscathed, Gallacher, 48, needed medical assistance.
Opening up about the incident on the latest episode of Kathy Burke's Where There's A Will There's A Wake podcast, she explained: "This was when we were very single. We'd been shopping near where she lives, near Ascot, and I'd bought an album. It was very much a kind of like late 90s/mid 90s album. And Kirsty was really into her R& B and soul, right?
"And we were having this argument about having a wide range of musical interests. And I said, 'yeah, but you know, you've got to educate yourself beyond your genre', not a serious argument that we were going to fall out, but just having a heated debate.
"And I had this little car that had no roof on it. It was a convertible car, but it was tiny. So it's a sunny day. We're driving along. And the back wheel kind of must have just come off the edge … and the car just like went into freewheeling and was kind of just spinning around. And we landed in this ditch. And I'm not kidding. We were about a foot away from a telegraph pole, we would have been wrapped around the telegraph pole, and we just landed in this ditch.
"And because I never crashed before, I went, I went to turn the engine on as if we were going to drive out the ditch. Oh, right. And she was like, she was there with a frozen neck going, 'don't turn the car on!' Luckily, her parents weren't far away. One of them came, picked us up, took her straight to a doctor where she got kind of examined because I was fine."
