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Article: Black Country show man in crash drama
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- May 22, 2008
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THE man who launched the famous Black Country Night Out shows
more than 35 years ago was lucky to be alive today after a
terrifying motorway drama.
Ray Hingley, now 77, walked away unscathed after his car was
written off in the smash as he returned from holiday.
Ray, who set up the Black Country Night Out in March 1971 with
the late Black Country poet and comedian Harry Harrison, was
returning home on the M4 at Porthcawl in South Wales when the drama
unfolded.
He said today: "I was in the slow lane in a Kia Pride which I had
only had for five weeks.
"Suddenly a huge lorry pulled alongside me and then the driver
decided to join me in the slow lane.
"Unfortunately he didn't see me and cut ...