The car was hit today - luckily not the two

Suz · Post by **Suz** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:19 am

Parked my company car outside a friend of mines on a straight piece of road in a 30 zone, sat down with cuppa, heard a big bang and ran to door and looked out to see a clio reversing out of the rear drivers side of my company car. :x :x
Luckily the young lad stopped and police came to check it all out and all seems cosha. Went to check out the damage and walked to front to find the front bumper bashed in, the centre piece broken and lights all out of place, confused for a second then realised he'd shoved my car into the one in front and that one into the one in front of that :roll:
Was able to drive home however I think it will be quite expensive as all rear seems out of alignment, the interior of the boot is all cracked and bent and the panels aren't aligned.
Typical that it happens two days before I hand back my company car, although luckily had an extension on it for a week of would probably been the two there instead.
Will put some pics up tomorrow.

Suz

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:30 am

Ouch.

Will be an expensive claim on the young lads insurance !

Time to unwrap another one and boost the sales figures by 1

Post by **Ben** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:09 am

bummer .. my mate chris came back home the other day to find a note from a taxi driver his windscreen explaining how some lad had bashed into Chris's car .. to the point where the cars locked together and it was the taxi driver who helped the 'I passed yesterday and insured yesterday' student unhook them .. now the funny bit.

The student rang chris, "I've got an idea, how about you tell your insurance company that your car has been vandalised, and hey then you can claim on your insurance .... " .. Chris's response as you can guess was NO ! ...

Suz · Post by **Suz** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:02 pm

Current estimates are sitting between

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:09 pm

murano3 wrote:bummer .. my mate chris came back home the other day to find a note from a taxi driver his windscreen explaining how some lad had bashed into Chris's car .. to the point where the cars locked together and it was the taxi driver who helped the 'I passed yesterday and insured yesterday' student unhook them .. now the funny bit.

The student rang chris, "I've got an idea, how about you tell your insurance company that your car has been vandalised, and hey then you can claim on your insurance .... " .. Chris's response as you can guess was NO ! ...

So it's true. You don't have to be bright, these days, to be a student :roll:

Danny@APT · Post by **Danny@APT** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:48 pm

Suz wrote:Just so glad that it wasn't the MR2 as it could so easily have been.

I can imagine what would've happened to the bloke if it had been!

:stick: :nuts:

Being a company car, do you have to fork-out anything at all, or would it all be sorted between the insurance companies?

Suz · Post by **Suz** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:32 pm

If it had been the two I think he might have a bit of a limp now LOL

Insurance co's will sort it out not like I can be blamed seeings I wasn't in the car or near the car so should be straight forward

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:32 pm

Frigging hell Suz ](*,)

thank god for company cars eh :thumb:

Suz · Post by **Suz** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:09 pm

Hard to believe it is 3-5ks worth,

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:38 am

I can believe it to be honest. All those plastic bits add up and it looks like it has pushed the exhaust.
Eddy