...because investigating officer went off sick and paperwork not prepared in time!
A doctor rushing to work caused a horrifying head-on smash captured on a dash cam.
She had to be airlifted to hospital after driving straight into the path of a car driven by retired engineer Colin Kay.
Both vehicles were completely written off after the 50mph smash on the A586 Great Eccleston bypass at St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire.
But the foreign medic escaped any police action because the police officer investigating the case went off sick and the paperwork was not prepared in time.
Miraculously, she was not badly hurt despite being cut out of her Toyota Aygo and taken to Preston Royal Infirmary by helicopter.
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