You can’t park there, mate

x5 for the price - the big clamshell bonnet won't be cheap. It'll also need front grill, arch liner, front inner clip, probably wiring loom, maybe an oil radiator or similar if it's in that lower left corner.

That's if the handrail hasn't damaged the A-pillar, if it has I'd bet on a write-off.

The Tiguan is indeed an auto. Odd place for it to end up though.

I would not be at all surprised if it was someone in their 30s taking a #tiktock selfie in front of an AM garage for clout, rather than some old biddy.

That said, I assume as a new Aston, even if it's part of the Timeless approved used set, would have very stringent repair requirements. If you told me that damage ended up costing £40k I would not be surprised in the slightest.

Edit: I know of someone who had an insurance bill of north of £80k for crashing into a then-new R8. Ouch.

https://www.carsnitch.co.uk/used-cars/aston-martin...

Yours for 210K and only 500 carful miles.

Good old sudden accelerator syndrome, bene to a good few in my time, some tragic, one quite funny...

Shout over the radio to me and one of my crews, please attend rtc Asda, Sutton in Ashfield, one car no injuries but possible public order issues,....

I asked, do you have an exact location please?

Checkout 8 was the response...

Yep, the driver ( late 70's male ) had finished his shopping, loaded up the car, put it in drive, pressed the accelerator thinking it was the brake, shot across the walkway, through the wall and come to rest against the checkouts!

Luckily that checkout and the ones around it were closed so there was no-one in the path of the car inside the store.

Exactly, it doesn’t make sense for the car to have been facing that way in that location. There must have been some Rapide backwards acceleration involved.

Sad days...
I posted the famous/ infamous spoof Aston Martin ad....with the you're not the first but do you care strapline and a picture of a scantily clad woman but in no way pornographic and it was removed as "inappropriate".

To whoever found it offensive apologies.

I'd bet a few quid on it being an old dear who has has suffered from a randomly malfunctioning out-of-control car pedal confusion.

I saw this, opposite my office. Was an old boy whose wife was in Cook next door - he'd dropped her off, went to reverse and hit the throttle rather than brake. He was very shaken up.

But....thank god there wasn't a pedestrian/mum & buggy/etc int he way at the time. Funny that all the sympathy he's had locally would have been very different if it were the Aston that ended up on top of the Tiguan (or if the accident had been caused by a young driver...!).


AND just yesterday, in the Sainsbury's car park literally round the corner, this happened. Same story, old driver hit the throttle instead of the brake.



You can still see the barriers round the ticket machine in question in the above photo!

I'm amazed that something like this hasn't happened in the small town where I live in the 10 years I've been here. The town centre is a typical old marketplace set-up where cars park end-on to the road, i.e. pointing straight at the shops a mere couple of metres away across the pavement. You see all sorts of...interesting driving/parking from old folks on a daily basis, and I don't think there's a piece of street furniture that hasn't been dinged at some point, but so far there's been no car/shopfront interaction. It'll happen tomorrow now I've said that.

You'd have had a from me. I thought it was very tasteful. I still have a copy.