Collected the company van from being serviced at the local garage many years ago, then set off to a clients in Birmingham. Just heading past Stafford on the M6 sitting at a steady seventy, there's a rattle from under the van of something metallic bouncing off the floor pan. We look behind to see something bounce down the road and hit the grill of a following Merc. Instant clouds of steam.
We pull over, as does the Merc. We walk back down the hard shoulder to find a very shaken driver pulling a well used Snap On screwdriver out from his rad.
We go back to the van, knowing its not one of ours, but knowing its just come from the garage, open the bonnet, and there's another screwdriver and a couple of spanners sat in a hollow in the inner wing near the bulkhead that have obviously just been left and forgotten about.
After exchanging insurance details, and finishing off at the clients, we drove back to the garage and asked politely of one of the mechanics had miss laid some tools. Sure enough, one sheepishly comes forward! At which point we told them exactly what had happened and expect to be hearing from the insurers.