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Tonight, having driven home from covering Walsall v Leicester City, I had to finish the journey, as always, by executing a small reverse manouevre into the exact parking spot directly outside our hovel.

As always, I lowered the window and looked out and behind me to make sure I was in, as they say in cricket these days, the right areas, when suddenly I became aware of a very unpleasant crushing sensation in my head. My bonce felt like it was being compressed in a vice and I felt blood spurt in a thick, warm stream from my nose.

After a few bewildering and horrible seconds I realised what was occurring. As I had leaned to the right, my arm landed on the electric window button and the window had responded, in traditional fashion, by rising. The pane had wedged up the right side of my nose and was still forcing hard in an attempt to reach the top of the window space. During the few seconds it took me to work out what the hell was going on, my arm remained on the button so the window kept trying to elevate so kept forcing its way upwards into the obstacle: ie. me 'ed.

More by luck than judgment, I think, after a second or two of panic, I lifted my arm off the button and me fizzog (I dread to think what it had looked like for those few seconds - even more grotesque than usual) recomposed itself. The bleeding stopped quite quickly and I went inside to write about Walsall v Leicester City which, for those few seconds at least, had not seemed very important.

Two questions.

Has anybody else ever done this, thereby raising issues of possible serious design faults in the automobile industry?

Was it simply an act of the most extreme stupidity ever displayed by a member of the human race?