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Originally Posted by secular
I had a spectaculer RTA involving a parked tractor.
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Ouch, glad to hear you are alive and in reasonable shape considering.
One question. Did the insurance companies decide who was at fault. Looking at the diagram, you would have hit that doing 40 or 60 (the road limit). Seems a pretty daft place to park a tractor.
My Accidents.
Whilst learning I clipped wing mirrors on my dads car while he was passenger, no damage. After passing did much the same with the whole family in the car, broke the glass.
Worked for perfect pizza and drove their van, a 950 cc Ford festa popular. First and impressively no damage close shave was me whizzing through a gap between two cars that was a little tight and realising that both wing mirrors ended up folded into the sides, perpaps a little too tight! Big dent i put into that was reversing it into a space beside a wall i turned right not left and bent up the front wing.
Totalled my first peugeot 205, aged 18. An 1.4 XS, which actually did a pretty good job holding its own against the 1.6i. Anyway on the A414 between the Hadhams and A10 the car in front of me went round the bend, the one behind stopped and missed me. I did a 360 deg pirouette bounced off the hedge on the opposite side of the road and that was that. Luckily nothing coming the other way. Why - possibly new front tyres and older (4mm) rear tyres. I know now that the tyres with better grip should go on the back of a FWD car, so the front hung on and the rear lost it. Admiral insurance have never given me a competitive quote since!
Next accident was a couple of years ago (30). Guy in a white escort (30s) van backed into me in hertford town centre as he was trying to get out of the way of the bus coming toward him on the one way section in town. New front bumper on my car £250, no damage to his. The towing hook on his did most the damage.
Two weeks ago 33 backed into a car in a stevenage carpark. no damage to either. The other guy was suprisingly pleasant about it. Got out looked, shouted over, no damage done and drove off!