Sorry to hear that Phil but glad you are Ok and hope it's not too much to get it sorted.
It is a horrible feeling when the car lets go. When I had my first comapny car, a Cavalier (hated it) I had a similar thing happen to me but got a blow out on the back right and lost it on the ice across a bend in a country lane. I was careering down the road trying to avoid the large lake and trees on the right hand side and when I finally thought I had got control back I completely lost it and went down the left side knocking out about half a dozen fence posts and landed in a farmers field. A couple of the fence posts came through the windows and just missed my head. The bizzare thing was I was bothered about the fact I'd nearly ended up in the lake and all my customer records would have got wet. Wasn't really thinking about the car that came towards me a few seconds after I left the road and it took a little while to realise how much more serious it could have been so it's good that you got away with just a dent to the pride.
