Had a prang!

[anonymous-user]

Buff Mchugelarge said:

Yes you can
I refused to claim whiplash when the van I was driving was hit (all of 10mph!). The passenger (in my van)claimed.. and got payed?!

Have one of these

I thank you SIR

[Kentish]

Maximum Bobs said:

danyeates said:

What were you doing on the inside of the lorry? Not criticising or anything, just curious. Sounds like you were in the lorry's blind spot. Was the lorry overtaking you and forgot you were there or something?

This.

It's an odd roundabout; it has 4 exits and one has a slip lane feeding into the inner lane onto dual carriageway, I was in this lane.

The lorry must have seen me as he exited the roundabout and passed me to my right, by this time I was occupying the inside lane and he just decided to pull in. He straddled both lanes momentarily and I thought he had seen me and hence was hesitating but then he pulled over toward me quite sharply with no indication and he was huge, so I had to stop quickly or he'd have certainly written my van off and possibly me with it.

A second or two later was a big bang and a jolt from behind.

I think the lady was following a bit too close as I instinctively glanced in my passenger side door mirror as I braked and couldn't see anyone behind me.

[so called]

Well done.
Had a situation in the US in a rental a couple of years ago.
Joining a freeway that was crawling, the car behind hit me as she was looking at the traffic and didn't see that I slowed for a gap.
She followed me off at the next exit.
Couldn't see a mark on her Mustang front and the only damage to my Grand Prix was a Tony bit of a scratch. Astonishing but the US regs require a minimum performance from car bumpers.
Anyway, I said "forget it". She said "fancy a coffee". Lost her number

[Olf]

Just take a precaution and lodge the circumstances of the accident somewhere. Otherwise when she changes her mind because of her husband nagging or something you'll suddenly find yourself on the end of a claim. Proceed with caution.

[Kentish]

Olf said:

Just take a precaution and lodge the circumstances of the accident somewhere. Otherwise when she changes her mind because of her husband nagging or something you'll suddenly find yourself on the end of a claim. Proceed with caution.

If that was to happen I'd pop around with a club hammer & inflict similarly priced damage

[Thejimreaper]

If your not going to use the insurance company then how will you claim for the obligatory whip lash??!!!

On a serious note, fair play for sorting it on the cheap, i'm sure she will appreciate it.

May be worth telling her to get an AP brake upgrade or something or maybe concentrate a bit more in future though!