CCTV crash sleuthing - help identify car?
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Wow, bad luck for your dad, but looks like the power of PH has closed it in somewhat. That damage on the AT Megane does look suspicious, but would say that there doesn't look to be any damage on the bumper, it just looks to be on the body area above it, would've thought the bumper took most of the impact, mind you that can be pushed out.
Just my view on it.....it looks very much like the Megane had to move to the inside to perhaps avoid the dark car coming towards him, and definitely whacked your dads car. He's then put it in reverse to turn, to try to catch the black car up, for a bit of 'banter' about driving manners ???? He's going too fast for a reverse park, even for a city driver, and it looks like both his indicators are on, was this a feature on that age Megane, wrt hard braking ?
Either way, have the police seen the vid, cos isn't it classed as leaving the scene of an accident ?
Just my view on it.....it looks very much like the Megane had to move to the inside to perhaps avoid the dark car coming towards him, and definitely whacked your dads car. He's then put it in reverse to turn, to try to catch the black car up, for a bit of 'banter' about driving manners ???? He's going too fast for a reverse park, even for a city driver, and it looks like both his indicators are on, was this a feature on that age Megane, wrt hard braking ?
Either way, have the police seen the vid, cos isn't it classed as leaving the scene of an accident ?
icepop said:
Wow, bad luck for your dad, but looks like the power of PH has closed it in somewhat. That damage on the AT Megane does look suspicious, but would say that there doesn't look to be any damage on the bumper, it just looks to be on the body area above it, would've thought the bumper took most of the impact, mind you that can be pushed out.
Just my view on it.....it looks very much like the Megane had to move to the inside to perhaps avoid the dark car coming towards him, and definitely whacked your dads car. He's then put it in reverse to turn, to try to catch the black car up, for a bit of 'banter' about driving manners ???? He's going too fast for a reverse park, even for a city driver, and it looks like both his indicators are on, was this a feature on that age Megane, wrt hard braking ?
Either way, have the police seen the vid, cos isn't it classed as leaving the scene of an accident ?
That is what I thoughtJust my view on it.....it looks very much like the Megane had to move to the inside to perhaps avoid the dark car coming towards him, and definitely whacked your dads car. He's then put it in reverse to turn, to try to catch the black car up, for a bit of 'banter' about driving manners ???? He's going too fast for a reverse park, even for a city driver, and it looks like both his indicators are on, was this a feature on that age Megane, wrt hard braking ?
Either way, have the police seen the vid, cos isn't it classed as leaving the scene of an accident ?
Megane driver is angry at the other car possibly for not stopping to let it through or not moving over far enough, tried to slam on and spin the car round to 'give chase' or something, clips your dads car, feels like a right bell end and and drives off
73mark said:
Just seen this on autotrader looks odd damage looks right
Nothing came of it. The car was registered to a vacant property, funny enough not the same address where the car in advert was photographed at and the registered keeper's name was probably fake.
DannyScene said:
That is what I thought
Megane driver is angry at the other car possibly for not stopping to let it through or not moving over far enough, tried to slam on and spin the car round to 'give chase' or something, clips your dads car, feels like a right bell end and and drives off
RMegane driver is angry at the other car possibly for not stopping to let it through or not moving over far enough, tried to slam on and spin the car round to 'give chase' or something, clips your dads car, feels like a right bell end and and drives off
That's my view on this video
icepop said:
Just my view on it.....it looks very much like the Megane had to move to the inside to perhaps avoid the dark car coming towards him, and definitely whacked your dads car. He's then put it in reverse to turn, to try to catch the black car up, for a bit of 'banter' about driving manners ???? He's going too fast for a reverse park, even for a city driver, and it looks like both his indicators are on, was this a feature on that age Megane, wrt hard braking ?
Looks like the Megane misjudged both the on-coming car and trying to turn around.
Raify said:
Hello PH sleuths,
My old man caught a very strange incident on his cctv. Someone drove past his car, stopped and then slammed it in reverse hitting his car pretty hard.
He's now an excess down and a claim added to his insurance. Witnesses outside got most of the plate, but they either got it slightly wrong or the car has a dodgy plate.
Have a look at the video here:
http://youtu.be/8OgL3RWgYUc
The plate the neighbours got was N?59 NGY. They were certain about the last part (confirmed by 3+ people) but a quick trawl of ask MID shows it must be a different beginning.
The car looks like a Volvo convertible, or maybe a Megane?
The closest I've got as a plate on ask MID is "Mercedes 220 Avantgarde 170 CDI" and "Volvo C30 SE R-Design D"
Any ideas?
Seems like PH viewers have correctly identified the car and number-plate so well done there, but one suggestion for anyone posting videos onto YouTube in the future, it might also be worthwhile uploading the video onto the likes of www.mega.co.nz so that the original video can be downloaded and viewed, reason being that videos uploaded onto YouTube tend to be degraded versions due to the compression involved in the upload process.My old man caught a very strange incident on his cctv. Someone drove past his car, stopped and then slammed it in reverse hitting his car pretty hard.
He's now an excess down and a claim added to his insurance. Witnesses outside got most of the plate, but they either got it slightly wrong or the car has a dodgy plate.
Have a look at the video here:
http://youtu.be/8OgL3RWgYUc
The plate the neighbours got was N?59 NGY. They were certain about the last part (confirmed by 3+ people) but a quick trawl of ask MID shows it must be a different beginning.
The car looks like a Volvo convertible, or maybe a Megane?
The closest I've got as a plate on ask MID is "Mercedes 220 Avantgarde 170 CDI" and "Volvo C30 SE R-Design D"
Any ideas?
Might also be worthwhile buying a dashcam and hardwiring it in on motion detect, there are some very inexpensive models costing less than £50 that provide excellent 1080p video evidence which would have worked a treat in this particular instance.
Outrun said:
The Megane driver obviously blames the initial contact on the parked car because it isn't parked straight. So he decides to get revenge by reversing into it and straightening it out. Great work by everyone. Hope the OP gets his man.
I agree with this. The passing Megane clips the parked car on its way past, presumably because it is parked at a slight angle to the kerb.
The driver then decides to 'teach the owner of the parked car a lesson' and reverses into it deliberately. The driver has a pretty serious anger management problem...
FazerBoy said:
Outrun said:
The Megane driver obviously blames the initial contact on the parked car because it isn't parked straight. So he decides to get revenge by reversing into it and straightening it out. Great work by everyone. Hope the OP gets his man.
I agree with this. The passing Megane clips the parked car on its way past, presumably because it is parked at a slight angle to the kerb.
The driver then decides to 'teach the owner of the parked car a lesson' and reverses into it deliberately. The driver has a pretty serious anger management problem...
The parked car is initially straight to the kerb. As the Megane goes past the rear pops out. The megane reverses into it to put it straight again
Alternative amateur sleuth view... the bit of dark trim that falls to the floor around the 15second mark appears to fall closer to the offside of the megane. So could it be that he actually clipped mirrors with the dark car that was going the other way, after clipping it he immediately slams into reverse to do a quick 3 point turn but doesn't check his nearside and hits the parked car 
And before you say.. But the parked car moves at the 14second mark just as the megane passes, I suspect this is just artefacts in the video... Look at the flowers/bush at the lower right of the frame.. They also jump all over the place!
OP... Can we see some pics of the damage to the black car?
And before you say.. But the parked car moves at the 14second mark just as the megane passes, I suspect this is just artefacts in the video... Look at the flowers/bush at the lower right of the frame.. They also jump all over the place!
OP... Can we see some pics of the damage to the black car?
Edited by MrChips on Thursday 18th December 23:15
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