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JimVee said:
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Funnily enough that happened to me on Monday. Stopped at a roundabout waiting for a gap in the traffic. When one came and I pulled forward the car behind slammed into the back of me. Driver blamed his car, said it had "jumped" by itself when he let the clutch put. It hadn't. It was raining, his pedals were wet and when his foot slipped off the clutch he went into the back of me because he'd been to close.

I was expecting the see bust lights and a hanging bumper because it was quite a clonk. But for the life of me I couldn't see a thing wrong with my car. I checked and checked again and the only mark was some slight scuffing to the plastic rain cover over the ball hitch where my towbar had gone through his radiator. His car, a little BMW 1 series hatchback, had smashed headlights and number plate, a split bumper and a hole in the radiator grill like a tree had gone through it.
Monday morning life lesson: leave 6 feet to the vehicle in front when coming to stop in traffic, and if you're going to plough into the back of someone, don't pick a Landrover with a towbar fitted.
 
Gimlet said:
Funnily enough that happened to me on Monday. Stopped at a roundabout waiting for a gap in the traffic. When one came and I pulled forward the car behind slammed into the back of me. Driver blamed his car, said it had "jumped" by itself when he let the clutch put. It hadn't. It was raining, his pedals were wet and when his foot slipped off the clutch he went into the back of me because he'd been to close.

I was expecting the see bust lights and a hanging bumper because it was quite a clonk. But for the life of me I couldn't see a thing wrong with my car. I checked and checked again and the only mark was some slight scuffing to the plastic rain cover over the ball hitch where my towbar had gone through his radiator. His car, a little BMW 1 series hatchback, had smashed headlights and number plate, a split bumper and a hole in the radiator grill like a tree had gone through it.
Monday morning life lesson: leave 6 feet to the vehicle in front when coming to stop in traffic, and if you're going to plough into the back of someone, don't pick a Landrover with a towbar fitted.
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Did you get their insurance details for the rain cover? 🤣
 
Dox said:
Did you get their insurance details for the rain cover? 🤣
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If he'd been an arse, stinking of beer from the weekend or trying to wriggle by claiming I'd run back into him, he may have found a whiplash claim incoming.
But he wasn't. He was just a young lad who'd made a mistake and come off worse. He was coorporative and apologetic and I imagine he'll soon be poorer by about two weeks wages. Sticking him for a nee rain cover seems a bit harsh.
 
Gimlet said:
If he'd been an arse, stinking of beer from the weekend or trying to wriggle by claiming I'd run back into him, he may have found a whiplash claim incoming.
But he wasn't. He was just a young lad who'd made a mistake and come off worse. He was coorporative and apologetic and I imagine he'll soon be poorer by about two weeks wages. Sticking him for a nee rain cover seems a bit harsh.
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I was joking about the rain cover BTW...
 
Gimlet said:
Funnily enough that happened to me on Monday. Stopped at a roundabout waiting for a gap in the traffic. When one came and I pulled forward the car behind slammed into the back of me. Driver blamed his car, said it had "jumped" by itself when he let the clutch put. It hadn't. It was raining, his pedals were wet and when his foot slipped off the clutch he went into the back of me because he'd been to close.

I was expecting the see bust lights and a hanging bumper because it was quite a clonk. But for the life of me I couldn't see a thing wrong with my car. I checked and checked again and the only mark was some slight scuffing to the plastic rain cover over the ball hitch where my towbar had gone through his radiator. His car, a little BMW 1 series hatchback, had smashed headlights and number plate, a split bumper and a hole in the radiator grill like a tree had gone through it.
Monday morning life lesson: leave 6 feet to the vehicle in front when coming to stop in traffic, and if you're going to plough into the back of someone, don't pick a Landrover with a towbar fitted.
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Years ago I had a colleague who owned an Austin ambassador (newer princess 🤣) with a towbar, same thing happened to him with zero damage - don't think any rust fell off or anything 🤣🤣
 
Gimlet said:
If he'd been an arse, stinking of beer from the weekend or trying to wriggle by claiming I'd run back into him, he may have found a whiplash claim incoming.
But he wasn't. He was just a young lad who'd made a mistake and come off worse. He was coorporative and apologetic and I imagine he'll soon be poorer by about two weeks wages. Sticking him for a nee rain cover seems a bit harsh.
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In truth im the same bud .. i have no religion but I believe what goes around comes around.. I had a transit run into the back of my transit about 10 years ago at a zebra crossing... absolutely no damage but we were locked in transit love making... he had to cut the bottom of his transits front bumper as it had jumped up over the tow bar on mine but what I never knew is the lower lip on the front bumper has a metal rod embedded in the plastic and no matter what we tried couldn't separate the love struck transits .. luckily he was a plumber so a cordless grinder done the trick destroying his bumber in the process ... his mistake was pealing an orange then dropping it and not realising I stopped at a zebra crossing... 😅😂
 
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