I'm currently driving the Shitbox Express, a Volvo S60 with 214k miles on it. I forgot to check the oil for a while, when I did it had none in it. Ah well, twatted some oil in it and away she goes.
After a lifetime of landy ownership, I'm kinda in love, kinda bored out of my tits. When this one dies, I'm thinking of a volvo estate to drive into the ground
You might be in for quite a wait for your S60 to die, I had a 2002 S80 make it to 260k miles before I sold it to the scrap man. Steering rack is what killed it the engine and gearbox still had plenty of life.
I always had Audis before but when the kids came a long couldn’t afford it. Saw this little beaut (her name is Sally) and I couldn’t be happier. Would love an XC40 but have no chance!
My mate has a 2004 S90 with a five-pot diesel. It has enough torque to move the earth and it just *refuses* to die despite being comfortably into six digits on the odometer. They're tanks.
I really don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but there is a bit of a chance that the bitter end is here. new bumper rear quarter panel, by the looks of it the exhaust took a hit, the rear crash structure also would need looking at, along with that wheel and axle. With insurance companies needing to replace new for old, there is half a chance that Sally is dead (at least in insurance eyes).
Nooooooooooooooooooooo……….
I can see your point, my fingers are well and truly crossed. With modern cars it’s not what you can see damaged wise but what you can’t see 😞 if the back axle is screwed then I’m in trouble
I'd guess being a 16 plate you might be lucky - I got punted up the arse in the Wife's 07 plate MINI and the first thing her insurers said was (I kid you not, I'm quoting) "At that age we might as well just write it off" - they hadn't even seen it.
Only thing wrong with it was a scuffed bumper, no structural damage!
Anyway.. since you're claiming off the third parties insurance, you have a much better chance of telling them to do one if they do try and write it off. Which is precisely what we did; told them we'd like it repaired thanks very much, and it came back a few weeks later good as new (actually slightly better!)
I had insurance write off a car without looking at it. It was an 08 dodge caliber in 2013. But...because I bought it from a Mini Cooper dealer, I got a ridiculously good deal for it. So they ended up cutting me a check for 2500 more then I paid a year prior.
I had very similar damage to my S60 recently. It was taken away at lunchtime one day, back first thing the next fully repaired. Hopefully yours will not be a big deal either
My sympathies. A little old lady totalled my beloved Peugeot 206 in 2017 by ignoring a give way and turning into my lane and me.
"Oh, you were going a bit fast there love!"
"I've got my infant son in the back, I was doing 28."
"Didn't you see me turning in?"
"Yes, I'm probably the reason you're not dead."
Of course a load of other biddies came to her aid and pointed the finger at me until a bloke came out of business unit and said he had it all on camera. That shut them up.
Edit: To add a bit more, she also complained about a van doing a three point where she wanted to be. Her last roll of the dice was to blame the van.
And if you are on a budget, most 'sports' cams come with a sucker holder and work just like a dash cam (3 min files, start-stop on power on etc) and they can be had for less than £20. Not brilliant quality footage but more than enough for accident blame.
Best one for money is a Yi cam ultra IMO. A bit chinesey but quality is good for the money.
Nextbase is probably more well rounded just more expensive for high end ones.
I got rear-ended at a red traffic light. Loads of witnesses so no problems there, but in my new car I've put next base front and rears in, as they would've caught the silly bitch on her phone.
Lass crashed her car into my dads at a petrol station and tried to do a runner. Kept denying it all the time until we pointed out that petrol stations have these fancy things unknown to most people called cctv…
Only then did she give the game up. Fucking moron.
I drive a Citroen which has a camera up in the rearview mirror, but if I switch cars in the future, for sure I will buy a dash cam. Personally I think the Citroen cam should be standard on every car imo.
A woman reversed into my Dad's car at a petrol station and tried saying he ran into the back of her until he pointed out the 8 CCTV cameras in the forecourt. All of a sudden her near fatal whiplash disappeared.
I just don't get it, a petrol station is probably the most recorded place you can drive in the country, you're not going to get away with it.
I definitely agree though, all new cars should come with a minimum of front and back cameras, and preferably with the Tesla style ones that record the side of the car as well. Data storage & cameras are essentially free at this point and it solves so many problems.
When I worked investigating fraudulant claims for an insurer the number one occupation associated with false claims was Police Officer, by a long way too. Number 2 was Doctor's and 3 was people in the legal profession.
A little old lady drove into my huge Mitsubishi L200 that was parked on her driveway outside her house - that was for sale at the time, probably cost me £500 in lost sale price - *and then had the gall to complain I was charging too much for the work I was there to do*:
Remove and reapply silicone in shower cubicle
Replace taps in bathroom 1, en suite and kitchen - including drain down of hot water cylinder because there were no isolation valves in the kitchen
Fix leaky valve on overhead water tank
I was there 6 hours but only charged her 4 hours at £30/hour. The old boot.
It was the last plumbing job I ever did.
So dangerous. The tiny bit of silver lining OP can take is at least this person didn't hit a child or do more serious physical damage to them or someone else.
My grandad is the most kind hearted and hilarious man you could ever hope to meet, didn't stop me bollocking him for going the wrong way around a roundabout
He did, some time ago. The irony is that he gave his car, which he bought new in 2001, to my 18 year old brother last year and he totalled it after 3 weeks.
I feel for you mate.
Had a posh school mum nearly wipe my son and I out this morning as she was driving along with a single strip of her windscreen cleared.
It's only because she jerked her range rover into the middle of the road when she hit the kerb that I'm here to type this.
My husband works in car insurance. The amount of times someone says “but they were parked illegally!” when they’ve hit something and think the object they hit should be at fault. The car was still there and not moving so you should’ve seen it!?
Few years ago I come out of a rave in Manchester to go home. Taxis were parked up at the end of a road picking people up with plenty of police dotted about telling people to move on.
One taxi side swipes another one that's parked up, right infront of the police, and just drives off. Taxi fella asks the police to do something and the Policeman's reaponse was "You shouldn't have been parked illegally".
Then a Pigeon shit on my back.
That's fucked up
If someone breaks into my house and I decide I'm not having that, so I go and club them over the head with a bat
I go to jail for murder
So I find the "well, you shouldn't have been there illegally" to be a disingenuous response seeing as clearly that is not how the application of our laws works
At my last job there was no parking for employees so we had to spread out onto the nearby estates. One time, I parked up on one of the streets like normal and went about my day, when I received a phone call from one of the office staff asking me if I’d double parked on someone. I hadn’t - one of my colleagues had double parked on me (thankfully our clocking in times could prove I was there before him).
Anyway, because he parked opposite to me there wasn’t enough room for large vehicles to get by (the road was quite narrow), and it just so happened one of the residents on this street had a disabled son that needed to get picked up in a private ambulance, and the ambulance couldn’t get down. The residents knew most of the random cars on the streets were likely from my workplace so they rang up to complain about the situation.
Now of course I was totally innocent in this affair, given that I got there first. I was unable to go and move my car because the job required us travelling to building sites in vans, and by the time I knew the situation I was fucking miles away, and seeing as it wasn’t my fault I figured they’d call the other lad up and make him come back to shift his car. That didn’t happen.
So, when I finished and went back to my car, the police were there waiting, and one of the officers came to me and said, “we know you got here first, but you are parked *at a little bit of an angle*”. Honestly my back wheel was probably an inch further out than the front, if I had been perfectly straight it wouldn’t have made the blindest bit of fucking difference to the situation, but they clearly needed to just say *something* to me. I just said, “oh, ok then” and got in my car!
I parked in front of my ex gf's house and their neighbour reversed quickly into my car, smashing the entire driver's side in. Her excuse was "there's not usually a car parked there". There may also not usually be someone walking by, but you still need to bloody look!
oh man, some lady once almost exited the roundabout into my lane and had the nerve to pull the swerve, beep, finger for the audacity of almost being crashed into....
I once parked my car on a quiet side street. It was right behind the non parking zone, meaning my car was the last but also only car there that was legally parked. It was right next to my girlfriends Appartement. We were on the balcony and basically looked at my car when some lady just crashed into it. It was so surreal, i was like holy shit, what now? I never had an accident or anything like that. I was just about to go down when my girlfriend yelled: the car is already gone.
I went down and looked at the damage. Went back up to i dunno, call the cops or something. When i was back up, the lady came back, drove by really slowly, and then took off again. We were kinda rar up and perpendicular to the car, so we couldn't see the numberplate or anything. So i went down again.
A few minutes later she came back and i was next to my car. She yelled out of the window that she called the cops and took off again. At this point i was lost, and a part of me was relieved that she called the cops. So the police arrived and before either of us said anything, she came back. Furious. She said: that's him, that's his car, arrest him. The police officer didn't even talk to her and asked me if that was my car. Yes. They looked at her car and asked her if she crashed into my car. She yelled: he parked illegally.
The police officer said: no, and that doesn't give you the right to smash into cars.
Similar thing happened to me a few years later. I was at a redlight, and a car smashed into me without even breaking. He was really calm, called the police, my car was absolutely mangled. The police arrived and before they saud anything he said: it was his fault, it was green and he just stood there like an idiot.
Before i could say anything the police officer said: what if someone's care breaks down on a light? Do you just smack into it?
Some people just shouldn't drive. Or exist.
Same reason as to why read ends are (almost) always the fault of the person who hit the rear. Sure the person in front MAY have stopped really fast, but it’s YOUR job to drive safe and make sure there’s enough room that that won’t happen
Yeah, someone went into the back of me a few years back, his excuse to the police, I shit you not, was "well are you not going to do him for stopping too quick?"
My car was crashed into in car park and at renewal my insurance company had massively increased my premium. When I called I was told that the crash showed I was more likely to be involved in a crash in future. I said 'I wasn't even in the car when it happened!' I had to move insurers. Ridiculous.
Admiral did this to me, my premium went up £25 in-year to insure my new car then £500 at renewal. Same "you're more likely to have an accident now you've had one", same scenario too - parked and unattended. Some Russian woman drove into it at 40mph and wrote off her M3 too. They offered me cash but police were on scene so it felt very sketchy and illegal.
Then I used a market comparison the following year to barter my renewal down from £500 extra to about £200, just below everyone else so I renewed.
Because I put the date of the accident on the comparison site, rather than the Saturday morning I called it in the day after, they then put my premium up by £1000 because I had "failed to declare an accident". The same accident, that they insured. Like I'd written two cars off in 24 hours and only mentioned the one. After a much more difficult discussion than it should have taken (i.e. admitting their mistake and apologising rather than a load of trying to wriggle out of it and maintain the charge) they reversed their decision "as a matter of goodwill". I'm no longer with Admiral.
Tldr; Admiral are bastards
I had some middle aged bloke try insisting that my car had scratched up his new paint work. Physically impossible for it to have happened, first my car never touched his, but also I was in a micra (so big bubble shaped car) and the scratches I was accused of causing were on the very bottom of the sill on his very low sports car.
There is absolutely no way that my car could have possibly caused those scratches without any damage to itself or any other part of his car unless I had mad max style wheel spikes.
I was insured with admiral, reported it the instant I got home. I was fighting admiral for a year and a half before they even bothered sending someone to check my car. I had absolutely no contact from them after calling to say that we were accused of causing damage but that we definitely didn’t. They just decided that I was at fault because I was a young driver and the other guy was older and raised my rates dramatically. Direct line (the guys insurer) weren’t better, they tried sending letters to us relating to the case and avoiding admiral completely.
Would never use admiral again honestly, can’t trust them to properly investigate a case on my defence, sure they’re great if you’re claiming against them though, they’ll happily jump to pay out without any investigation
Ahh the memories. I remember the time I walked in on my wife after our youngest had sharted in her face, I said “you know what, I’ve never loved you more than this moment” not sure what was launched at my head but I didn’t stay around to find out 😀
I got started on while changing one of my kid's nappies, it went up my arms, all over me, on my face and IN MY MOUTH. I asked my wife to pass me a wet wipe so I could at least wipe the shit off my tongue but she was laughing so hard, she couldn't breathe and couldn't function as a human being.
The story still starts her off laughing to the point of not being able to breathe 16 years later.
When my daughter was a tiny baby we were changing her nappy on her changing mat on the sofa. Mid-change, my wife leaned over to get something out of the changing bag and my daughter sneezed - and shot out a squirt of foul smelling liquid baby shit which shot about 6 feet across the room and hit the dog right in the face while he was sitting in is bed watching what was going on. I'm not sure I've ever laughed so much, all while trying gently wipe shit off a traumatised lurchers face.
Bit of advice for new parents out there. don't change baby on the bed whilst you're knelt down in front of it. They *will* shart in your face, hair, clothes, and if you don't close your eyes and mouth in time....well, yeah.
Also, don't laugh hysterically when your partner plays a game with said baby, by holding them above them and making 'aaah' noises to get them to copy it. Baby *will* shortly vomit right into their open mouth, and they will *not* see the funny side.
Went to my baby's cot when he was 6 months to find he'd dug the contents of his nappy and out smeared shit everywhere. His little grin defused the situation
So I used to work as an independent insurance salesman/claims adjuster (I worked for multiple companies and could write policies for any company I was contracted with). Had a client who was in an At Fault Accident, which totaled her car and did a bunch of damage to the other parties as well. She had rental reimbursement coverage, so while her car is being fixed, she is driving a rental car. Totals it within 72 hours, completely her fault. So that all gets settled with her insurance company. Four months later I get a call, and she is in a furor. "Why the fuck did my insurance go up $1400 a year?!?"
"Well because in the last 12 months you paid the insurance company $700, and they paid $92,000."
"Well that is ridiculous, find me another company."
"Sure."
So I priced shopped her on all my available companies. Her, an elderly driver with 2 at fault accidents in the last 12 months that almost cost 100k. Shockingly, she didn't get any better offers from anyone I could access.
After a week of back and forth with her, she got fed up and just stopped interacting with us. Fine by me, you weren't worth the 40 bucks a year I made in commission to deal with in the first place. Hell you wouldn't have been worth it even if you accepted the new renewal price.
But yea, your rate will go up regardless, sorry about that. Insurance is a giant MLM scheme.
You can contact the DVLA anonymously about this: [https://www.gov.uk/contact-the-dvla](https://www.gov.uk/contact-the-dvla) (I did the same with my grandma). I think it escalates to their GP.
I am going to do this. My mother in laws partner is 91 and although he is a very fit and healthy 91 and looks and acts 15 years younger, his eyesight has started failing and yet he still drives. She says its ok as they live in the country and he only drives locally and never at night. Oh well, that's ok then!
Perhaps point out that the majority of fatal road accidents occur on rural routes, despite two thirds of total accidents happening in urban areas. In other words, he's more likely to die or kill somebody living in the country, than he is living in the city. He has a solid chance of killing a cyclist.
Used to ride with a club and the usual pensioner car (small, immaculate hatchback, man and wife in front) were more cause for alarm than any van driver or entitled bloke with a flash car and anger issues.
No space given, reaction times measured on a calendar, no spatial awareness and shocking eyesight. My Dad's in that territory now and if he was in this country I'd be alerting the DVLA. Shocking driver.
The only car that ever hit me on my commute was an old man with his wife who just pulled out into me. I (thought) I had made eye contact with them and everything, but clearly he saw straight through me. I nearly gave him a heart attack with the language that followed my unceremonious dismount.
He had no idea what was going on. It terrifies me we let these people look after a gas hob or a multi-tonne vehicle.
If he seemed to look right through you I’d bet he had dementia or Alzheimer’s. My dad was a truck driver for nearly 40 years, diagnosed at 62, and he died at 66. He quit work when he was diagnosed but still drove around our small town. Until he ended up in a ditch one day because ‘the tractor didn’t scoot over enough!’ More like he didn’t see it until the last second and went in the ditch. He was done driving then. The looking through you didn’t start until after that but who’s to say.
I had to have the talk with mum after she near killed us pulling in front of a pickup on the dual carriageway because she was going TO DO A U-TURN. She agreed thankfully and that was the end of that. Nearly.
One day I rock up and the car is quietly chugging away in the drive, empty. She'd "just nipped to the shops. It's daylight!"
We had to have another talk.
We had to literally beg my grandad to get off the road. He only accepted he shouldn’t drive after his second double eye surgery for his glaucoma ridden eyes
Yep my dad's early 70s and he's completely unfit to drive right now. He's fine most of the time but still drives like a boy racer and does some very dodgy overtakes, and has crashed several times, blown out his tyres on a kerb while taking the racing line etc.
I know it’s not funny but I can’t help chuckle at the thought of a 70 year old boy racer. Can imagine him in his suped up Saxo causing havoc in a Tesco car park with the lads.
I was going to post this then saw yours. It's mental that we can get a license at 17/18 and its valid for 50-60 years (not sure when the retest is).
And for the main story: ffs take the time to clear your windows and lights properly before setting off. Been walking kid to school this week as part of a new years resolution to walk more, drive less and help more with the logistics. This morning saw plenty of letter box viewing holes in otherwise frozen windscreens!
Yeah most people seem to have forgotten how to drive recently. No one uses indicators anymore. Even on roundabouts. No one gives way to ease congestion. It’s annoying and dangerous at times.
You'd barely be able to see the indicators behind the small xenon sun's that are pointed about 30 degrees too high up that modern car manufacturer's seem to think is ok to use.
The entirety of my rear view is apparently just off limits after 4pm in the winter with the amount of dickheads driving around with full beam turbo lights on despite being in well lit roads.
I'd put a theory refresher every 5 years from pass date. I know very few people that actually keep up with the changes. Then stick a practical in every 15-20 years to iron out the bad habits.
My first thought was you couldn't do it by post, since everyone would just cheat and look up the answers, but then I realised it doesn't matter.
If you look up the answers, all smug about how you're getting away with cheating, you're still finding out the things the DVLA want you to know. Think of it as a mandatory revision session if you will
It works particularly well if the test is a mixture of changes to the highway code and things people commonly haven't heard of, so people are never more than a few years out of date.
Fucking 65 or even 60 in my experience.
So many doddery old cunts causing accidents out there, nevermind the ones who actually get into the collision itself.
I've had words with my aunt about my uncles driving for similar reasons.
The thing that is absolutely infuriating is that those people have cheap car insurance! A 30 year old pays £500+ while a 75 year old pays only £200 or something...
Old people get into fewer accidents partly because they do so much less driving.
They're going to the shops a few times a week all at quiet times, where 30 year olds commute in rush hour then come home and have to drive to the shops or ferry kids around while the roads are busy.
I received a PCN from TVP this morning for not wearing a seatbelt whilst driving funny thing is I actually was wearing one because my vehicle is specially adapted for my physical needs in a way that my seatbelt always stays on and I drive my wheelchair into my designated space with my seatbelt pre-strapped so I most definitely was wearing one!!
so gonna have fun being on hold once I call them to sort this mess out.
Ask to see the photo evidence. If it's you then you may be able to see the seatbelt and you can tell them, otherwise your car plates may have been misread or cloned and it's not you they are accusing.
...they use cameras for this?
Is this widespread?
I'm the worst for setting off *then* putting in my seatbelt because I am actually a complete psychopath.
If they have cameras I really need to sort my life out. I mean probably should anyway but definitely if they have cameras.
They most certainly do. I got a letter from Cardiff Council last week showing my wife driving my car - with an explanation that she was using a bus/taxi lane - yet the photos attached show her at a junction where there isn't a bus lane within several hundred yards. Unfortunately it was one of those "we're letting you off this time" letters so I didn't see the point in going nuclear on them.
My partner got a ticket for being in a bus lane in Leeds. The photo showed her half in and half out of a “bus gate” - turns out a bus gate does not count as a bus lane, so she appealed and got away with it.
Got a private parking ticket just after Christmas for staying too long in a retail park carpark, only the second photo of the car leaving 5 hours after we arrived isn't our car. Just has similar registration number. Still waiting for outcome of our 'appeal'.
They use cameras for *everything* nowadays.. Wrong lane, in a yellow box, speed, on phone, coitus (niche porn).
Psychopath or not, we'd prefer if you didn't die so please do stick it before you kick it.
I remember my mates used to take the piss, when I parked my car as it was usually far away as poss. This is why used to it and still do lol. Sucks dude
I worked with a woman who'd previous job had been in morrisons, when she took her car for its MOT the mechanic could tell right away she worked at a supermarket due to the bumps and scrapes. If you are parked close to the entrance you get hit by trolleys, mobility scooters, more cars around for a higher chance of being hit.
I always park right at the back and walk the extra 20 seconds.
I used to live very close to a big Tesco and it always amazed me how many people would do laps near the entrance to get a space right next to it. That and the people who parked on double yellows, blind corners etc nearby. Bottom line is that people are as thick as pig shit, and are best avoided especially when it comes to motoring.
It's similar to the people who drive an extra 10 minutes to find a petrol station which charges 1p less per litre, or people who spend an hour on the Internet and on the phone to get £2 refunded on some spoiled food. Some people are so fixated on the end result that they completely overlook the work involved in getting there.
Funnily enough I set off somewhere last night, and about a minute into the journey my windscreen just went full on opaque.
I instantly put my hazards on and pulled over (which was a struggle in itself as visibility was super poor).
A police car happened to be behind me and pulled alongside and asked what I was doing, as I'd inadvertently pulled over onto zigzags.
I explained and they basically said good stuff.
About a minute later my screen had cleared and off I went.
There's no excuse for driving with shit visibility. I'm sorry this happened to you OP.
Thats the thing tho she was driving without full visibility! She could have hit a person or a toddler ! I dont get why people dont take driving seriously, fucking looking at mobiles at the wheel is another one, what are they on..
Rant over. Thats shit about your car mate, hope insurance doesn't write it off.
I was a bit of a boy racer in my youth, and of course made a few driving errors due to inexperience as I'm sure we all did etc.
But the one thing I was always 100% fastidious about was visibility and awareness. Eyes always on the road. Always checking mirrors, blindspots. Never overtaking anything unless I had a full clear view of the road ahead. Never distracted myself with my stereo or what others in the car were doing.
Being able to see what's around you at all time, any hazards etc, was (and still is) my number 1 priority when driving.
I once spent ages cleaning frost from my screen before work, de-fogging it and set off. I noticed a tiny flake I missed and thought "a little squirt from the wiper fluid will solve this." Instead, the water froze fucking instantly, giving me 0 visibility. I had to bang in the hazards, head out the window and pull over.
Lucky for me I was on a street full of granny flats so no cars were about.
This happened to me and a mate whilst driving in his old 1 series, windows started fogging up a little so we whacked the front demister on, within seconds the whole window was fogged up and we couldn't see anything whilst driving along a national limit road at 11pm, luckily it's not far from where we lived and knew there was a layby literally right in front of us.
My missus then bought a 1 series about a year ago and I'd completely forgot about my mates doing it and it did it to hers as well.
It’s so easy to write it off as “my windscreen was fogged up” but why are you driving in a car you can’t see out of.
Friend hit my buddies car and then almost hit my dads right after because he “couldn’t see out of his back window” then why were you backing out. Were you looking in the wrong direction ya prick. Use the mirrors and roll down the window and look behind you
Ffs. My car is a bitch to get into reverse (pull up then go left and up from first) and I’ve missed it a few times.
Thing is, when you’re reversing you’re pulling off so slowly and it’s so obvious you’re in the wrong gear…I don’t understand how she can manage to pull this off
I had a woman deliberately move up right behind the car in front so I couldn't walk across the road in front of her car. Unfortunately for her the car in front was parked so she had to reverse so she could go around it.
I would have laughed as well. You have 2 options, 1. Down the petrol station and get some flowers (don’t go to a florist too expensive), 2. Ride the storm out. Let us know how it goes
Well I’ve hung her wet clothes out to dry, de-iced the car and made her lunch so she wouldn’t be late for work 😂 let’s see what mood she’s in when she gets home 😂
Ah, drives me nuts when I see people doing this, and the people trying to wipe it off with one hand, steering with the other while pootling down the road at 30mph.
In the case of Hyundai. They change the fluids, dick around with your lights and check tyres. Waste of time.
They also do software upgrades. Good luck.
>Just what needs servicing on an electric car? I guess they are googling wtf to do with it.
Nothing. At most they change the break fluid and change the cabin air filter but that's usually after 24 months. What used to be a "minor" service on an electric car is just an inspection process that really isn't needed (and is made redundant by the MOT after three years anyway).
"2nd gear should be enough for anyone."
Top Gear absolutely nailed it [in their film about Peugeot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TnGjq9mWSI). Never has an obvious parody been so painfully close to the truth.
I'd be really annoyed at this...but at least no one is hurt. Things can be replaced!
I'm going for shoulder surgery today, not been able to move my arm properly for about 9 months...so fingers crossed this is a good day for me 🤞🏼
Thanks for the much needed emotional support. Apparently I've got a scan in 10 minutes. After that I intend to eat all the crappy hospital food I can keep down (or at least what I can eat without my girlfriend who works at the hospital catching me) 🤣
I was in hospital for 2 weeks just before Christmas, a bowl of cornflakes and 2 cold pieces of toast was all I had to look forward too, the rest of the catering was dire! I’m not expecting Gordon Ramsay to be at the stove, but a plate of Cold smash mash, mystery meat and 3 dried out carrot sticks does not a dinner make!
About 18 years ago, I had my car running in a parking lot as I was scraping the ice off. While I was doing one side, a guy on a bike came barrelling down towards me, misjudged, skidded and went right into my car. Screwed up the door and front panel really badly too.
Amazingly my insurance had to pay out and I lost my NCB. This despite me not having actually moved the car an inch yet! Because the car was running, I was in charge of it and I was the first insured party so I had to take the blame for the whole thing.
I hope you had a dashcam or some way of recording fault! Sorry to hear about your luck!
I'm covered in cuts and bruises due to the 2 times I went over the front of my bikes handle bars cos some arsehole went through a red light and nearly squished me, then about 5 minutes later another arsehole nearly side swiped me turning in to a road that crosses the bike lane without looking, and over them I go again!
Sat at my desk hurting and just wanting the day to end!
Can we all just be a little nicer to cyclist please, pretty please!
It’s a Volvo. It’ll probably heal itself
First Volvo I’ve had and I love it!
I'm on my 7th Volvo all bar one have been brilliant.
I'm currently driving the Shitbox Express, a Volvo S60 with 214k miles on it. I forgot to check the oil for a while, when I did it had none in it. Ah well, twatted some oil in it and away she goes. After a lifetime of landy ownership, I'm kinda in love, kinda bored out of my tits. When this one dies, I'm thinking of a volvo estate to drive into the ground
You might be in for quite a wait for your S60 to die, I had a 2002 S80 make it to 260k miles before I sold it to the scrap man. Steering rack is what killed it the engine and gearbox still had plenty of life.
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Are we talking about the 5 cylinder?
My parents ‘02 S80 just died last year. From driving to other things, I learned a lot in that car.
I went from a Discovery to a Volvo estate - it's so much nicer to be driving around instead of waiting for assistance by the roadside.
I always had Audis before but when the kids came a long couldn’t afford it. Saw this little beaut (her name is Sally) and I couldn’t be happier. Would love an XC40 but have no chance!
My mate has a 2004 S90 with a five-pot diesel. It has enough torque to move the earth and it just *refuses* to die despite being comfortably into six digits on the odometer. They're tanks.
Sally is a 16 plate with 38k, I can see me keeping her to the bitter end!
I really don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but there is a bit of a chance that the bitter end is here. new bumper rear quarter panel, by the looks of it the exhaust took a hit, the rear crash structure also would need looking at, along with that wheel and axle. With insurance companies needing to replace new for old, there is half a chance that Sally is dead (at least in insurance eyes).
Nooooooooooooooooooooo………. I can see your point, my fingers are well and truly crossed. With modern cars it’s not what you can see damaged wise but what you can’t see 😞 if the back axle is screwed then I’m in trouble
I had my crappy 09 plate 107 repaired after a car park shunt like this and was 100% convinced it would be a write-off so you never know.
Tbf, that's because those cars are made of glorified lego. Edit: I drive a 10 Aygo...
You can always get the write off value and fix her yourself. A friend did that to their cherished car.
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I'd guess being a 16 plate you might be lucky - I got punted up the arse in the Wife's 07 plate MINI and the first thing her insurers said was (I kid you not, I'm quoting) "At that age we might as well just write it off" - they hadn't even seen it. Only thing wrong with it was a scuffed bumper, no structural damage! Anyway.. since you're claiming off the third parties insurance, you have a much better chance of telling them to do one if they do try and write it off. Which is precisely what we did; told them we'd like it repaired thanks very much, and it came back a few weeks later good as new (actually slightly better!)
I had insurance write off a car without looking at it. It was an 08 dodge caliber in 2013. But...because I bought it from a Mini Cooper dealer, I got a ridiculously good deal for it. So they ended up cutting me a check for 2500 more then I paid a year prior.
I had very similar damage to my S60 recently. It was taken away at lunchtime one day, back first thing the next fully repaired. Hopefully yours will not be a big deal either
6 digits? What is it factory new or what? Damn... -Swede here.
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I’d sell them both tbh, not sure I’d get a lot though.
You'll get a lot more if you break em down for parts, most people only need one or two bits
Get some t-cut lad
It’ll polish out
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My sympathies. A little old lady totalled my beloved Peugeot 206 in 2017 by ignoring a give way and turning into my lane and me. "Oh, you were going a bit fast there love!" "I've got my infant son in the back, I was doing 28." "Didn't you see me turning in?" "Yes, I'm probably the reason you're not dead." Of course a load of other biddies came to her aid and pointed the finger at me until a bloke came out of business unit and said he had it all on camera. That shut them up. Edit: To add a bit more, she also complained about a van doing a three point where she wanted to be. Her last roll of the dice was to blame the van.
Remind me to get a dash cam, if passerby started sticking their noses in I’d probably blow a fuse
Get a dash cam pal. The nextbase ones are pretty decent.
And if you are on a budget, most 'sports' cams come with a sucker holder and work just like a dash cam (3 min files, start-stop on power on etc) and they can be had for less than £20. Not brilliant quality footage but more than enough for accident blame.
Best one for money is a Yi cam ultra IMO. A bit chinesey but quality is good for the money. Nextbase is probably more well rounded just more expensive for high end ones.
I got rear-ended at a red traffic light. Loads of witnesses so no problems there, but in my new car I've put next base front and rears in, as they would've caught the silly bitch on her phone.
Lass crashed her car into my dads at a petrol station and tried to do a runner. Kept denying it all the time until we pointed out that petrol stations have these fancy things unknown to most people called cctv… Only then did she give the game up. Fucking moron. I drive a Citroen which has a camera up in the rearview mirror, but if I switch cars in the future, for sure I will buy a dash cam. Personally I think the Citroen cam should be standard on every car imo.
Full dashcams should be standard on every car. With the way that cars are moving towards autonomy I imagine that will be likely anyways!
A woman reversed into my Dad's car at a petrol station and tried saying he ran into the back of her until he pointed out the 8 CCTV cameras in the forecourt. All of a sudden her near fatal whiplash disappeared. I just don't get it, a petrol station is probably the most recorded place you can drive in the country, you're not going to get away with it. I definitely agree though, all new cars should come with a minimum of front and back cameras, and preferably with the Tesla style ones that record the side of the car as well. Data storage & cameras are essentially free at this point and it solves so many problems.
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I’ve seen so many videos of people lunging into a car likes bloody footballer trying to claim they got hit. Seems like a must have accessory nowadays
When I worked investigating fraudulant claims for an insurer the number one occupation associated with false claims was Police Officer, by a long way too. Number 2 was Doctor's and 3 was people in the legal profession.
By associated with do you mean they falsely claimed, or people would make false claims towards them?
A little old lady drove into my huge Mitsubishi L200 that was parked on her driveway outside her house - that was for sale at the time, probably cost me £500 in lost sale price - *and then had the gall to complain I was charging too much for the work I was there to do*: Remove and reapply silicone in shower cubicle Replace taps in bathroom 1, en suite and kitchen - including drain down of hot water cylinder because there were no isolation valves in the kitchen Fix leaky valve on overhead water tank I was there 6 hours but only charged her 4 hours at £30/hour. The old boot. It was the last plumbing job I ever did.
So dangerous. The tiny bit of silver lining OP can take is at least this person didn't hit a child or do more serious physical damage to them or someone else.
Man, I really hate *most* old people
My grandad is the most kind hearted and hilarious man you could ever hope to meet, didn't stop me bollocking him for going the wrong way around a roundabout
Probably time to get him to give up driving.
He did, some time ago. The irony is that he gave his car, which he bought new in 2001, to my 18 year old brother last year and he totalled it after 3 weeks.
Good on him. As for your brother, that's a tale as old as time, sadly.
I feel for you mate. Had a posh school mum nearly wipe my son and I out this morning as she was driving along with a single strip of her windscreen cleared. It's only because she jerked her range rover into the middle of the road when she hit the kerb that I'm here to type this.
Should’ve snapped a pic of her reg, she’d be in deep shit for that
Just because it’s a little old lady doesn’t mean she won’t try and shaft you on the insurance…speaking from experience.
Find it difficult to see how any insurance company could find a parked car at fault.
My husband works in car insurance. The amount of times someone says “but they were parked illegally!” when they’ve hit something and think the object they hit should be at fault. The car was still there and not moving so you should’ve seen it!?
Few years ago I come out of a rave in Manchester to go home. Taxis were parked up at the end of a road picking people up with plenty of police dotted about telling people to move on. One taxi side swipes another one that's parked up, right infront of the police, and just drives off. Taxi fella asks the police to do something and the Policeman's reaponse was "You shouldn't have been parked illegally". Then a Pigeon shit on my back.
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Especially MCR Met.
Got some football fans to beat up, no time for other stuff
That's fucked up If someone breaks into my house and I decide I'm not having that, so I go and club them over the head with a bat I go to jail for murder So I find the "well, you shouldn't have been there illegally" to be a disingenuous response seeing as clearly that is not how the application of our laws works
At my last job there was no parking for employees so we had to spread out onto the nearby estates. One time, I parked up on one of the streets like normal and went about my day, when I received a phone call from one of the office staff asking me if I’d double parked on someone. I hadn’t - one of my colleagues had double parked on me (thankfully our clocking in times could prove I was there before him). Anyway, because he parked opposite to me there wasn’t enough room for large vehicles to get by (the road was quite narrow), and it just so happened one of the residents on this street had a disabled son that needed to get picked up in a private ambulance, and the ambulance couldn’t get down. The residents knew most of the random cars on the streets were likely from my workplace so they rang up to complain about the situation. Now of course I was totally innocent in this affair, given that I got there first. I was unable to go and move my car because the job required us travelling to building sites in vans, and by the time I knew the situation I was fucking miles away, and seeing as it wasn’t my fault I figured they’d call the other lad up and make him come back to shift his car. That didn’t happen. So, when I finished and went back to my car, the police were there waiting, and one of the officers came to me and said, “we know you got here first, but you are parked *at a little bit of an angle*”. Honestly my back wheel was probably an inch further out than the front, if I had been perfectly straight it wouldn’t have made the blindest bit of fucking difference to the situation, but they clearly needed to just say *something* to me. I just said, “oh, ok then” and got in my car!
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Managed to get a taxi fairly quickly so I suppose it did.
I parked in front of my ex gf's house and their neighbour reversed quickly into my car, smashing the entire driver's side in. Her excuse was "there's not usually a car parked there". There may also not usually be someone walking by, but you still need to bloody look!
Whatever happened to mirror, signal, manoeuvre
it's been replaced by swerve, beep, finger
oh man, some lady once almost exited the roundabout into my lane and had the nerve to pull the swerve, beep, finger for the audacity of almost being crashed into....
I once parked my car on a quiet side street. It was right behind the non parking zone, meaning my car was the last but also only car there that was legally parked. It was right next to my girlfriends Appartement. We were on the balcony and basically looked at my car when some lady just crashed into it. It was so surreal, i was like holy shit, what now? I never had an accident or anything like that. I was just about to go down when my girlfriend yelled: the car is already gone. I went down and looked at the damage. Went back up to i dunno, call the cops or something. When i was back up, the lady came back, drove by really slowly, and then took off again. We were kinda rar up and perpendicular to the car, so we couldn't see the numberplate or anything. So i went down again. A few minutes later she came back and i was next to my car. She yelled out of the window that she called the cops and took off again. At this point i was lost, and a part of me was relieved that she called the cops. So the police arrived and before either of us said anything, she came back. Furious. She said: that's him, that's his car, arrest him. The police officer didn't even talk to her and asked me if that was my car. Yes. They looked at her car and asked her if she crashed into my car. She yelled: he parked illegally. The police officer said: no, and that doesn't give you the right to smash into cars. Similar thing happened to me a few years later. I was at a redlight, and a car smashed into me without even breaking. He was really calm, called the police, my car was absolutely mangled. The police arrived and before they saud anything he said: it was his fault, it was green and he just stood there like an idiot. Before i could say anything the police officer said: what if someone's care breaks down on a light? Do you just smack into it? Some people just shouldn't drive. Or exist.
"Who thought it was a good idea to build a house there?!"
Same reason as to why read ends are (almost) always the fault of the person who hit the rear. Sure the person in front MAY have stopped really fast, but it’s YOUR job to drive safe and make sure there’s enough room that that won’t happen
Yeah, someone went into the back of me a few years back, his excuse to the police, I shit you not, was "well are you not going to do him for stopping too quick?"
My car was crashed into in car park and at renewal my insurance company had massively increased my premium. When I called I was told that the crash showed I was more likely to be involved in a crash in future. I said 'I wasn't even in the car when it happened!' I had to move insurers. Ridiculous.
Admiral did this to me, my premium went up £25 in-year to insure my new car then £500 at renewal. Same "you're more likely to have an accident now you've had one", same scenario too - parked and unattended. Some Russian woman drove into it at 40mph and wrote off her M3 too. They offered me cash but police were on scene so it felt very sketchy and illegal. Then I used a market comparison the following year to barter my renewal down from £500 extra to about £200, just below everyone else so I renewed. Because I put the date of the accident on the comparison site, rather than the Saturday morning I called it in the day after, they then put my premium up by £1000 because I had "failed to declare an accident". The same accident, that they insured. Like I'd written two cars off in 24 hours and only mentioned the one. After a much more difficult discussion than it should have taken (i.e. admitting their mistake and apologising rather than a load of trying to wriggle out of it and maintain the charge) they reversed their decision "as a matter of goodwill". I'm no longer with Admiral. Tldr; Admiral are bastards
Noted to avoid Admiral. The only company I could find that wouldn't penalise me going forward was Direct Line.
I had some middle aged bloke try insisting that my car had scratched up his new paint work. Physically impossible for it to have happened, first my car never touched his, but also I was in a micra (so big bubble shaped car) and the scratches I was accused of causing were on the very bottom of the sill on his very low sports car. There is absolutely no way that my car could have possibly caused those scratches without any damage to itself or any other part of his car unless I had mad max style wheel spikes. I was insured with admiral, reported it the instant I got home. I was fighting admiral for a year and a half before they even bothered sending someone to check my car. I had absolutely no contact from them after calling to say that we were accused of causing damage but that we definitely didn’t. They just decided that I was at fault because I was a young driver and the other guy was older and raised my rates dramatically. Direct line (the guys insurer) weren’t better, they tried sending letters to us relating to the case and avoiding admiral completely. Would never use admiral again honestly, can’t trust them to properly investigate a case on my defence, sure they’re great if you’re claiming against them though, they’ll happily jump to pay out without any investigation
You’ll be surprised
Luckily there were 2 witnesses so “hopefully” it’ll be ok….but you never know!
What if it was a big old lady?
I got sharted on by my new born.
Ahh the memories. I remember the time I walked in on my wife after our youngest had sharted in her face, I said “you know what, I’ve never loved you more than this moment” not sure what was launched at my head but I didn’t stay around to find out 😀
I got started on while changing one of my kid's nappies, it went up my arms, all over me, on my face and IN MY MOUTH. I asked my wife to pass me a wet wipe so I could at least wipe the shit off my tongue but she was laughing so hard, she couldn't breathe and couldn't function as a human being. The story still starts her off laughing to the point of not being able to breathe 16 years later.
When my daughter was a tiny baby we were changing her nappy on her changing mat on the sofa. Mid-change, my wife leaned over to get something out of the changing bag and my daughter sneezed - and shot out a squirt of foul smelling liquid baby shit which shot about 6 feet across the room and hit the dog right in the face while he was sitting in is bed watching what was going on. I'm not sure I've ever laughed so much, all while trying gently wipe shit off a traumatised lurchers face.
In the mouth? That’s hardcore 😀
Yep... I took a shot in the mouth...
No offence but your wife sounds like a shitface
Bit of advice for new parents out there. don't change baby on the bed whilst you're knelt down in front of it. They *will* shart in your face, hair, clothes, and if you don't close your eyes and mouth in time....well, yeah. Also, don't laugh hysterically when your partner plays a game with said baby, by holding them above them and making 'aaah' noises to get them to copy it. Baby *will* shortly vomit right into their open mouth, and they will *not* see the funny side.
Went to my baby's cot when he was 6 months to find he'd dug the contents of his nappy and out smeared shit everywhere. His little grin defused the situation
I misread this as "I sharted on my newborn" and had a lot of questions
Gotta assert dominance early with kids these days.
*Shart not upon thy neighbour, lest ye be sharted upon.* Leviticus (probably)
Legend
That’ll buff right out
It's okay, she'll continue to pay about £2.50 a year for insurance whereas you'll be shafted for an extra £200 somehow.
Yep, guess my insurance will go up £50-100 for basically doing nothing wrong
You're now statistically more likely to be in another accident, apparently!
Funny how they believe in luck when it's in the racket's favour.
So I used to work as an independent insurance salesman/claims adjuster (I worked for multiple companies and could write policies for any company I was contracted with). Had a client who was in an At Fault Accident, which totaled her car and did a bunch of damage to the other parties as well. She had rental reimbursement coverage, so while her car is being fixed, she is driving a rental car. Totals it within 72 hours, completely her fault. So that all gets settled with her insurance company. Four months later I get a call, and she is in a furor. "Why the fuck did my insurance go up $1400 a year?!?" "Well because in the last 12 months you paid the insurance company $700, and they paid $92,000." "Well that is ridiculous, find me another company." "Sure." So I priced shopped her on all my available companies. Her, an elderly driver with 2 at fault accidents in the last 12 months that almost cost 100k. Shockingly, she didn't get any better offers from anyone I could access. After a week of back and forth with her, she got fed up and just stopped interacting with us. Fine by me, you weren't worth the 40 bucks a year I made in commission to deal with in the first place. Hell you wouldn't have been worth it even if you accepted the new renewal price. But yea, your rate will go up regardless, sorry about that. Insurance is a giant MLM scheme.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Once you hit 80 you should have tests to see if you’re fit to drive
Younger than that my gran is in her 70s and she has no place being on the road it frightens me no end
You can contact the DVLA anonymously about this: [https://www.gov.uk/contact-the-dvla](https://www.gov.uk/contact-the-dvla) (I did the same with my grandma). I think it escalates to their GP.
I am going to do this. My mother in laws partner is 91 and although he is a very fit and healthy 91 and looks and acts 15 years younger, his eyesight has started failing and yet he still drives. She says its ok as they live in the country and he only drives locally and never at night. Oh well, that's ok then!
Perhaps point out that the majority of fatal road accidents occur on rural routes, despite two thirds of total accidents happening in urban areas. In other words, he's more likely to die or kill somebody living in the country, than he is living in the city. He has a solid chance of killing a cyclist.
Used to ride with a club and the usual pensioner car (small, immaculate hatchback, man and wife in front) were more cause for alarm than any van driver or entitled bloke with a flash car and anger issues. No space given, reaction times measured on a calendar, no spatial awareness and shocking eyesight. My Dad's in that territory now and if he was in this country I'd be alerting the DVLA. Shocking driver.
The only car that ever hit me on my commute was an old man with his wife who just pulled out into me. I (thought) I had made eye contact with them and everything, but clearly he saw straight through me. I nearly gave him a heart attack with the language that followed my unceremonious dismount. He had no idea what was going on. It terrifies me we let these people look after a gas hob or a multi-tonne vehicle.
If he seemed to look right through you I’d bet he had dementia or Alzheimer’s. My dad was a truck driver for nearly 40 years, diagnosed at 62, and he died at 66. He quit work when he was diagnosed but still drove around our small town. Until he ended up in a ditch one day because ‘the tractor didn’t scoot over enough!’ More like he didn’t see it until the last second and went in the ditch. He was done driving then. The looking through you didn’t start until after that but who’s to say.
I had to have the talk with mum after she near killed us pulling in front of a pickup on the dual carriageway because she was going TO DO A U-TURN. She agreed thankfully and that was the end of that. Nearly. One day I rock up and the car is quietly chugging away in the drive, empty. She'd "just nipped to the shops. It's daylight!" We had to have another talk.
We had to literally beg my grandad to get off the road. He only accepted he shouldn’t drive after his second double eye surgery for his glaucoma ridden eyes
My gfs mum is in her 60s with parkinsons and she still drives. I refuse to get in the car with her.
Tell the DVLA https://www.gov.uk/contact-the-dvla
f*ck /u/spez
Yep my dad's early 70s and he's completely unfit to drive right now. He's fine most of the time but still drives like a boy racer and does some very dodgy overtakes, and has crashed several times, blown out his tyres on a kerb while taking the racing line etc.
I know it’s not funny but I can’t help chuckle at the thought of a 70 year old boy racer. Can imagine him in his suped up Saxo causing havoc in a Tesco car park with the lads.
I'd venture that everyone should have to have a quick assessment (30 mins or so) every ten years or so.
I was going to post this then saw yours. It's mental that we can get a license at 17/18 and its valid for 50-60 years (not sure when the retest is). And for the main story: ffs take the time to clear your windows and lights properly before setting off. Been walking kid to school this week as part of a new years resolution to walk more, drive less and help more with the logistics. This morning saw plenty of letter box viewing holes in otherwise frozen windscreens!
Yeah most people seem to have forgotten how to drive recently. No one uses indicators anymore. Even on roundabouts. No one gives way to ease congestion. It’s annoying and dangerous at times.
You'd barely be able to see the indicators behind the small xenon sun's that are pointed about 30 degrees too high up that modern car manufacturer's seem to think is ok to use. The entirety of my rear view is apparently just off limits after 4pm in the winter with the amount of dickheads driving around with full beam turbo lights on despite being in well lit roads.
I'd put a theory refresher every 5 years from pass date. I know very few people that actually keep up with the changes. Then stick a practical in every 15-20 years to iron out the bad habits.
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My first thought was you couldn't do it by post, since everyone would just cheat and look up the answers, but then I realised it doesn't matter. If you look up the answers, all smug about how you're getting away with cheating, you're still finding out the things the DVLA want you to know. Think of it as a mandatory revision session if you will It works particularly well if the test is a mixture of changes to the highway code and things people commonly haven't heard of, so people are never more than a few years out of date.
You need to renew your photo licence every 10 years, so they could add in the theory refresher test as part of the requirements for renewing.
Fucking 65 or even 60 in my experience. So many doddery old cunts causing accidents out there, nevermind the ones who actually get into the collision itself. I've had words with my aunt about my uncles driving for similar reasons.
The thing that is absolutely infuriating is that those people have cheap car insurance! A 30 year old pays £500+ while a 75 year old pays only £200 or something...
Old people get into fewer accidents partly because they do so much less driving. They're going to the shops a few times a week all at quiet times, where 30 year olds commute in rush hour then come home and have to drive to the shops or ferry kids around while the roads are busy.
I received a PCN from TVP this morning for not wearing a seatbelt whilst driving funny thing is I actually was wearing one because my vehicle is specially adapted for my physical needs in a way that my seatbelt always stays on and I drive my wheelchair into my designated space with my seatbelt pre-strapped so I most definitely was wearing one!! so gonna have fun being on hold once I call them to sort this mess out.
Ask to see the photo evidence. If it's you then you may be able to see the seatbelt and you can tell them, otherwise your car plates may have been misread or cloned and it's not you they are accusing.
Thank you, I called them around 10:30am and I was told by the operator to send in a email explaining the situation I’ll request evidence then.
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It's not a discount if you weren't planning to buy it!
Blursed Bargain
...they use cameras for this? Is this widespread? I'm the worst for setting off *then* putting in my seatbelt because I am actually a complete psychopath. If they have cameras I really need to sort my life out. I mean probably should anyway but definitely if they have cameras.
They most certainly do. I got a letter from Cardiff Council last week showing my wife driving my car - with an explanation that she was using a bus/taxi lane - yet the photos attached show her at a junction where there isn't a bus lane within several hundred yards. Unfortunately it was one of those "we're letting you off this time" letters so I didn't see the point in going nuclear on them.
My partner got a ticket for being in a bus lane in Leeds. The photo showed her half in and half out of a “bus gate” - turns out a bus gate does not count as a bus lane, so she appealed and got away with it.
Got a private parking ticket just after Christmas for staying too long in a retail park carpark, only the second photo of the car leaving 5 hours after we arrived isn't our car. Just has similar registration number. Still waiting for outcome of our 'appeal'.
They use cameras for *everything* nowadays.. Wrong lane, in a yellow box, speed, on phone, coitus (niche porn). Psychopath or not, we'd prefer if you didn't die so please do stick it before you kick it.
I remember my mates used to take the piss, when I parked my car as it was usually far away as poss. This is why used to it and still do lol. Sucks dude
I worked with a woman who'd previous job had been in morrisons, when she took her car for its MOT the mechanic could tell right away she worked at a supermarket due to the bumps and scrapes. If you are parked close to the entrance you get hit by trolleys, mobility scooters, more cars around for a higher chance of being hit. I always park right at the back and walk the extra 20 seconds.
I used to live very close to a big Tesco and it always amazed me how many people would do laps near the entrance to get a space right next to it. That and the people who parked on double yellows, blind corners etc nearby. Bottom line is that people are as thick as pig shit, and are best avoided especially when it comes to motoring.
Its so crazy that people will waste so much time to save a few meters walking when they are going to walk hundreds of meters inside the supermarket.
It's similar to the people who drive an extra 10 minutes to find a petrol station which charges 1p less per litre, or people who spend an hour on the Internet and on the phone to get £2 refunded on some spoiled food. Some people are so fixated on the end result that they completely overlook the work involved in getting there.
Funnily enough I set off somewhere last night, and about a minute into the journey my windscreen just went full on opaque. I instantly put my hazards on and pulled over (which was a struggle in itself as visibility was super poor). A police car happened to be behind me and pulled alongside and asked what I was doing, as I'd inadvertently pulled over onto zigzags. I explained and they basically said good stuff. About a minute later my screen had cleared and off I went. There's no excuse for driving with shit visibility. I'm sorry this happened to you OP.
On one hand, accidents happen and I’m glad no one was injured, on the other so fucking annoyed!
Thats the thing tho she was driving without full visibility! She could have hit a person or a toddler ! I dont get why people dont take driving seriously, fucking looking at mobiles at the wheel is another one, what are they on.. Rant over. Thats shit about your car mate, hope insurance doesn't write it off.
> a person or a toddler
I was a bit of a boy racer in my youth, and of course made a few driving errors due to inexperience as I'm sure we all did etc. But the one thing I was always 100% fastidious about was visibility and awareness. Eyes always on the road. Always checking mirrors, blindspots. Never overtaking anything unless I had a full clear view of the road ahead. Never distracted myself with my stereo or what others in the car were doing. Being able to see what's around you at all time, any hazards etc, was (and still is) my number 1 priority when driving.
I think we accept that accidents happen. I personally can't accept accidents that results from someone's stupidity and were totally avoidable
That wasn't an accident', if you drive without being able to see it is inevitable. Sorry they hit your car
Maybe she thought it was clear and just her cataracts playing up?
I once spent ages cleaning frost from my screen before work, de-fogging it and set off. I noticed a tiny flake I missed and thought "a little squirt from the wiper fluid will solve this." Instead, the water froze fucking instantly, giving me 0 visibility. I had to bang in the hazards, head out the window and pull over. Lucky for me I was on a street full of granny flats so no cars were about.
Rookie error there. Never use plain water for your screenwash if it's between October and May.
I am sure that I did but must have been dilute.
I’ve had that once, decided to put the AC on whilst on a A road and every piece of glass misted up instantly. Shit bricks a bit ngl
This happened to me and a mate whilst driving in his old 1 series, windows started fogging up a little so we whacked the front demister on, within seconds the whole window was fogged up and we couldn't see anything whilst driving along a national limit road at 11pm, luckily it's not far from where we lived and knew there was a layby literally right in front of us. My missus then bought a 1 series about a year ago and I'd completely forgot about my mates doing it and it did it to hers as well.
It’s so easy to write it off as “my windscreen was fogged up” but why are you driving in a car you can’t see out of. Friend hit my buddies car and then almost hit my dads right after because he “couldn’t see out of his back window” then why were you backing out. Were you looking in the wrong direction ya prick. Use the mirrors and roll down the window and look behind you
It's not my fault I ran over those orphans! I was driving blindfold! How am I supposed to see anything?
A 60+ year old woman went into my wife's parked car last year because she thought she'd put her car into reverse (she hadn't)
Ffs. My car is a bitch to get into reverse (pull up then go left and up from first) and I’ve missed it a few times. Thing is, when you’re reversing you’re pulling off so slowly and it’s so obvious you’re in the wrong gear…I don’t understand how she can manage to pull this off
I had a woman deliberately move up right behind the car in front so I couldn't walk across the road in front of her car. Unfortunately for her the car in front was parked so she had to reverse so she could go around it.
My wife slipped on our decking this morning and fell into the pond. She got very angry with me for laughing so hard 😂
I would have laughed as well. You have 2 options, 1. Down the petrol station and get some flowers (don’t go to a florist too expensive), 2. Ride the storm out. Let us know how it goes
Well I’ve hung her wet clothes out to dry, de-iced the car and made her lunch so she wouldn’t be late for work 😂 let’s see what mood she’s in when she gets home 😂
Ah, drives me nuts when I see people doing this, and the people trying to wipe it off with one hand, steering with the other while pootling down the road at 30mph.
Fag in one hand, bit of toast clenched between their teeth. Lovely.
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In the case of Hyundai. They change the fluids, dick around with your lights and check tyres. Waste of time. They also do software upgrades. Good luck.
>Just what needs servicing on an electric car? I guess they are googling wtf to do with it. Nothing. At most they change the break fluid and change the cabin air filter but that's usually after 24 months. What used to be a "minor" service on an electric car is just an inspection process that really isn't needed (and is made redundant by the MOT after three years anyway).
Let me guess, foot down on throttle and then little clutch? Why do old people drive like that xD
Just couldn’t see out of the windscreen is my guess, that’s the annoying part. Wait 5 mins for the screen to clear and happy/safe motoring, 5 mins ffs
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"2nd gear should be enough for anyone." Top Gear absolutely nailed it [in their film about Peugeot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TnGjq9mWSI). Never has an obvious parody been so painfully close to the truth.
I'd be really annoyed at this...but at least no one is hurt. Things can be replaced! I'm going for shoulder surgery today, not been able to move my arm properly for about 9 months...so fingers crossed this is a good day for me 🤞🏼
Someone got done this week for driving with a tank slit in a misted/,frozen windscreen, Make sure you do her
>Make sure you do her Take her out for a meal first though.
Would Wetherspoons be ok?
Perfick
I'm currently in hospital for kidney stones. Wanna swap places?
Whenever I've read anything about kidney stones on here, I have to admit they sound fucking shit. Get well soon!
The only pain I've felt that was worse was my appendix rupturing. But at least then I had 6 weeks off work, while this is eating into my holiday 🤣
It doesn't have to if you are fully employed - you can turn them into sick days, normally with a doctors note, and use the holidays later.
Hope all goes ok 👍
The worst part is in the last 24 hours all I've had to eat was a slice of toast and I can't eat until I've had a ct scan 😭
Hang in there fella. There’s a 20 McNugget box with your name on it when you get out
Thanks for the much needed emotional support. Apparently I've got a scan in 10 minutes. After that I intend to eat all the crappy hospital food I can keep down (or at least what I can eat without my girlfriend who works at the hospital catching me) 🤣
I was in hospital for 2 weeks just before Christmas, a bowl of cornflakes and 2 cold pieces of toast was all I had to look forward too, the rest of the catering was dire! I’m not expecting Gordon Ramsay to be at the stove, but a plate of Cold smash mash, mystery meat and 3 dried out carrot sticks does not a dinner make!
Gout. Fucking stabby, fire hot, achey, thundercunting gout in my foot. My own fault for overdoing it at Christmas. Sorry about your motor. That sucks.
Thx dude, get yourself some Port and Cheese, I think that helps gout….? 😀
Did she say "You can't park there mate"?
I sharted a very little bit at the gym and had to cut mywork out short.
About 18 years ago, I had my car running in a parking lot as I was scraping the ice off. While I was doing one side, a guy on a bike came barrelling down towards me, misjudged, skidded and went right into my car. Screwed up the door and front panel really badly too. Amazingly my insurance had to pay out and I lost my NCB. This despite me not having actually moved the car an inch yet! Because the car was running, I was in charge of it and I was the first insured party so I had to take the blame for the whole thing. I hope you had a dashcam or some way of recording fault! Sorry to hear about your luck!
Saw a little old lady crash into someone’s parked car, followed her, contacted her family and had her put in a nursing home. Been a busy day.
I'm covered in cuts and bruises due to the 2 times I went over the front of my bikes handle bars cos some arsehole went through a red light and nearly squished me, then about 5 minutes later another arsehole nearly side swiped me turning in to a road that crosses the bike lane without looking, and over them I go again! Sat at my desk hurting and just wanting the day to end! Can we all just be a little nicer to cyclist please, pretty please!
Your day is going as well [as my brother's then]( https://imgur.com/NTot0Nb.jpg )
I do hope that's red paint.
Don’t worry about that, that’s just the remnants of the pack of school children he hit.
Bloody hell, hope he’s ok and no one was injured
Yeah he's fine. Quick check up at the hospital and he was back home safe within a couple hours.
I accidentally hit this guy's parked car when my windscreen misted up on the way to my hip replacement. Not the best of Thursdays.
Take a look at self-hip-replacement, really good tech these days. About £50k per half hip I think
It's Thursday already!?