Punishment? Don't make me laugh!
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The driver who T-boned me, causing this:-http://www.copart.co.uk/c2/individualLot.html?lotId=20330501&searchType=onSaleNow
was offered a driver 'Alertness course'!!!
He hit the back of a stationary Golf, pushing it into a Micra waiting to turn right across me, I braked and chucked the car onto the grass on my left but he followed me, hit my driver's side and rolled my car 3 times....
He ended up 200 yards down the road!
was offered a driver 'Alertness course'!!!
He hit the back of a stationary Golf, pushing it into a Micra waiting to turn right across me, I braked and chucked the car onto the grass on my left but he followed me, hit my driver's side and rolled my car 3 times....
He ended up 200 yards down the road!
Edited by fangio on Tuesday 6th September 11:07
Edited by fangio on Tuesday 6th September 14:40
Don't know why the link doesn't work - does if you copy and paste in Google...
He hit me that hard the car rolled 3 times. I don't know exactly what happened after the collision as the airbags came down and we were tossed about like rag dolls. Where he ended up shows the speed he hit us at after he'd hit another car, pushing it into the one in front!
If I'd done what he did, I'd expect at least a year's ban.
He hit me that hard the car rolled 3 times. I don't know exactly what happened after the collision as the airbags came down and we were tossed about like rag dolls. Where he ended up shows the speed he hit us at after he'd hit another car, pushing it into the one in front!
If I'd done what he did, I'd expect at least a year's ban.
Edited by fangio on Tuesday 6th September 11:41
Oh, I've got the new car, they paid up straight away.
I do, however, have extremely painful arms and hands from the side whiplash which may take until next year to clear up. I'm 72 next, so time is very precious.
Perhaps the sarcastic posters on here may like a taste of it, I had to be spoon-fed for the first 2 weeks.
No points!
I do, however, have extremely painful arms and hands from the side whiplash which may take until next year to clear up. I'm 72 next, so time is very precious.
Perhaps the sarcastic posters on here may like a taste of it, I had to be spoon-fed for the first 2 weeks.
No points!
Edited by fangio on Tuesday 6th September 11:48
Edited by fangio on Tuesday 6th September 11:49
Mnkiboy, I believe the only reason we're still alive is because it was an Audi.
All the emergency services who attended thought it was a fatal accident. As it was, my wife and the dog were unscathed, but it took the fire brigade an hour and a half to get me out through the back hatch on a spinal board. (The car was on it's roof.)
The traffic cops all want an A3 as their next car!
All the emergency services who attended thought it was a fatal accident. As it was, my wife and the dog were unscathed, but it took the fire brigade an hour and a half to get me out through the back hatch on a spinal board. (The car was on it's roof.)
The traffic cops all want an A3 as their next car!
I never got to meet him, but from the gist of what the bibs were saying, he said he never saw the stationary cars. The only sight and noise I got of his car, in the split-second before he hit me, was that it was accelerating out of control, as if his foot was on the throttle. Probably the after-shock of hitting the Golf. If he'd still been in control, he had room to stay on the road and pass behind me, as my car was totally on the grass. If he hadn't pushed it on to the tarmac of the side road, it probably would have slid further and stayed on it's wheels.
Edited by fangio on Tuesday 6th September 12:53
North of Morpeth. I was coming from the north.
Does this work?
http://g.co/maps/rpbx
Does this work?
http://g.co/maps/rpbx
Edited by fangio on Tuesday 6th September 13:16
fangio said:
Yep, works ok. So the micra was turning into Fenrother Lane?
You rolled three times, and he had already hot another car! How fast was he going?
g moving! It was a Rover 75, and he and his wife were totally uninjured, with the lady Golf driver having whiplash.Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff