next entrySmashing New Years Eve
Fan-smashing-tastic (note the sarcasm)
And I'm not talking in the good way. After a lay in this morning we eventually get ourselves organised enough to take a trip over to Bourton on the Water to visit a model railway shop so that Phil can pick up some more bits for this set up. Everything is going well up until we pull up to some traffic lights behind about 10 other cars. There we are minding our own business when all of a sudden there is a squeal of breaks and tyres from behind us and then a very big clank and that nauseating sound of metal being bent. Yes we'd been rear ended.
Phil pulls the car over and the other driver pulls over too and we get out to look at the damage - it seems that a 2 tonne land rover can do substantial damage to a 1 series even at slow speeds as he has destroyed the rear drivers side of my car - lights have gone, parking sensors, bumper and rear side panel all fucked. As you can imagine I ain't very happy in the slightest and let the other driver know as much, where as Phil was a bit more diplomatic about it all. So after taking photos of the damage (thank god for camera phones) we swap insurance details and the other driver admits liability.
Luckily my car is still drivable and while Phil drives I ring up the insurance company to tell them what has happened - they are very helpful and put me through to their legal department who will process the claim against the other drivers insurance company, I've even got a replacement car sorted out whilst mine is being assessed and either fixed or written off, not sure which yet.
When we get home we can have a closer look at the damage, and it's not very good news really. You see the rear panel isn't a singular unit that you can just replace by itself - the panel is part of a conglomerate which makes up the entirety of the roof and the equivalent rear on the passengers side, so that's gonna be expensive to fix. Not only that but the drivers side rear door doesn't shut properly anymore either, its about 1cm out making it troublesome to close and open. I've a feeling that's not a good indicator either and means something is bent somewhere which will probably be equally expensive to fix.
All in all then a pretty shit start to what will soon be 2006 - I just hope it isn't an indicator as to what the rest of the year is going to be like, and I'm certainly in no mood what so ever to celebrate the fact that after a pretty turbulent 2005 I might be in for an equally bumpy ride next year.
And so because of the above I won't be celebrating tonight - oh no, I'm going to stew in my own misery and feel sorry for myself and hope that Mr. S has as shite a new year as me.
Posted by Abi on the December 31, 2005 10:08 PM
Although I think the driver of the lorry has accepted responsibility in my case... well he bloody should, I was in the "slow" lane and he changed lanes into me... I don't know how the insurance is going to go. Over here you can't get fully-comp on a car over 3 years old... Anyway accidently phoned my parents yesterday (hit the wrong number on the phone) and my mum said "why don't you just buy a landrover dear?". Do you know if landrover dealerships will accept sex with a scraggy fat bird in exchange for a new car? ;-)
It aint't that bad. You're OK, the car can be fixed and the insurance is gone pay it.