Mandy has that Monday morning feeling

IT was 10am on a Monday in the sleepy Fenland market town of Wisbech and the chairman of the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association was surrounded by three police cars and being breathalysed. 

Mandy Fisher, a foot health professional, was on her way to a home visit when she was involved in most drivers’ worst nightmare – an accident with a police car.

“I was aware of a police car coming out of a side road but I thought she was going to stop because it was a T junction,” explained the 45-year-old who has run the WLBSA for more than 25 years.

“I knew she didn’t have enough room but I didn’t have anywhere to swerve out of her way because the river’s on my left hand side with a brick wall flanking it. I braced myself and CRUNCH. She hit the front wing, my door and the back door and came to a halt.”

The police driver, a young girl in her twenties, admitted liability and apologised. She radioed for her female sergeant who took statements and explained that it was standard procedure to breathalyse all drivers.

But neither car carried the kits and a third police car, also driven by a woman, was summoned from Wisbech police station.

Fisher said: “So there I am, little old me, on the river bank down Old Mill Lane in Wisbech with three police cars. I was thinking ‘if someone comes by what on earth would they think I’ve done’.”

The sergeant asked: “Have you has a drink in the last 24 hours?”

Fisher replied: “I haven’t had a drink in the last 24 years, I’m teetotal.”

She added: “We had a bit of a laugh and they were very nice. They got one of the police women to escort me to where I was going because they knew I was quite shaken up by the whole thing.”

Six months ago, Fisher’s green BMW 3 series was burnt out on her driveway. Seconds after calling 999 a fire engine that was passing her house after attending a shout extinguished the blaze before the petrol tank exploded.  

Fisher’s ex-husband is a former fireman.