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The Bishop of Lewes, the Right Rev.Peter Ball was driving along a country lane one night when the approaching car hit the verge, flew over the hedge and landed on its side. The Bishop stopped, shone his headlights on the wreckage and approached to see what help he could give.
A voice from within the car called, "Can you get something to break the window so that I can get out?"
The Bishop went back to his car and returned with his crook, by which time the driver had managed to get himself free.
"There I was in my monastic gray robe, walking towards him with my crook. I must have looked quite a sight with the car headlights shinning behind me," said the Bishop. "When the driver saw me he turned ashen white."
More shaken by his celestial apparition than by his accident, the driver managed to whisper, "Where am I and who are you?"
"I think he was quite convinced he must be in Heaven," said the Bishop. "I did not like to tell him that my name was Peter - that might have just finished him off altogether!"
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