I didn't see your car it was too low....

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"I didn't see your car it was too low", that's what the person who hit my car said.

The icing on the cake is she claims she couldn't have caused damage to my car as she only "tapped" me.

The end result is a new bumper, light cluster and exhaust repair is needed.

It was caught on cctv, apologies for the bad quality video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A0ItgDI-ss&fe...

I am still struggling to see how on earth she managed to hit a car with that much space?!

EDIT: Can a mod please remove the extra "t" at the end of didn't lol

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The one positive thing is I'm glad she didn't drive off.

Had this happened in a supermarket car park I reckon most people would have driven off.

Still gutted though, honestly it nearly brought a tear to me eye when I walked out to my car yesterday.

Edited by pops and bangs on Thursday 22 September 20:35

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poing said:

I didn't realise it was going to be a Vectra and an MX5, I assumed a 4x4 and Caterham or similar.

That's what is so ridiculous about her saying she didn't see my car.

She's either not used her mirrors or badly misjudged the size of her car.

She actually came in and asked if "the owner of a silver mx..."

I jumped in and said it was mine immediately thinking the worst, afterall she wasn't coming in to congratulate me on my car choice

So as I said I'm grateful that she came in, but I think part of that is because she's a client of ours.

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MitchT said:

I believe small children are 'too low' as well. Disturbing.

Exactly, I'd imagine it would be the childs fault too.

Whenever I'm in my car I always try and be aware of my surroundings, but I see lack of proper checking daily, the amount of people that don't check their blind spots and seem to cross over into my lane on the motorway until I beep my horn is shocking.

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s3fella said:

She's a useless , make sure you tell her so. A kid on a bike and she may be looking at prison.

The issue I'm having now is she's denying that she did that damage, apparently my car was damaged before and her "tapping" me could not have caused that.

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1878 said:

it shows your car moving at the moment of impact.

Do you think it's possible that other damage other than what is superficially visible could have been done due to the fact my car moved e.g anything linked to handbrake etc

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bicycleshorts said:

Nice of her to tell you, after driving into your car, she noticed some pre-existing damage.

Exactly, she fails to see my car but she miraculously seems to have seen the "existing damage" to my car before hitting me.

Looking back at the footage is it just me that thinks she should have started turning much earlier?

pilchardthecat said:

No, not at those sort of speeds. The bumper, and the brackets that hold the bumper off the car.

Ah ok thanks, that's good to know, my paranoia set in and was concerned that there might have been something more, the last thing I want is the bumper etc to be repaired and something goes unnoticed that they don't think to check.

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RevYob said:

Tip a load of paintstripper over her car and say the entire car was bare metal beforehand.

That comment has made my day and i dont often actually laugh out loud at comments cheers lol