I sold a car that killed someone...
This happened way back in 1999...

My dad, Jack, had a massive heart attack and I came home after being estranged for almost a year.
My mother was in a bit of a state and needed to get around as they had no car. She was desperate and I did a bit of selling as a side business of old cars, generally for cash in hand.
I had one car that was a bit on the dodgy side - it had been in an accident but had been patched up and I'd driven it around a while and it seemed ok. It was the only thing within my mother's budget to be honest and I couldn't really imagine anything that could go wrong as she'd just be using it as a runabout.

My Dad recovered ok and everything was fine until my generous mother gave one of the neighbours a lift...
It was just a short normal trip to the shops, as these things always are, when a car came out of nowhere and collided with my mother's car. It was a fairly low speed collision but because of the poor state of the car, the engine impacted on the passenger compartment and gave my mother's friend a serious blow on the leg.
At the time it was brushed off as a bit of bruising, but a few days later she collapsed and died from a blood clot shifting to her heart.

Ah, hang on a sec, it was Terry Duckworth from Coronation Street that sold the car, not me.
( scoshi pretending to diet since, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 6:31, 1 reply)

Which must make you Terry Fuckwitt, no?
clicked anyway
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:38, closed)