Yet again
*hugs* for HLT

Rswipe is quite right ... touch a persons car and you lose all right to protection from the law!


Someone rear ended me on the drive home tonight!

3rd time since Christmas.

This moron was flapping and waving at a friend in another car in the other lane while tryin to light a fag at the same time.

I could see her coming in the rear view mirror ... knew exactly what was about to happen ..... CRUNCH!!!!!

And ... ladies and gentlemen, this is why I drive a BMW 7 series. Not because I am a steriotypical twat or toff or suchlike (quite the opposite in fact), but because this is what happened next.

She hit me square on the rear bumper at about only 15mph. I had seen her coming and had time to sit back in my seat and relax for the impact

She hit ... did'nt feel like much of a bump at all. quite soft like a very gentle push in the back.

I got out to see how things went for her.

She had not been wearing a seat belt and had clonked her head on the windscreen. Not enough to break it but enough for a big bump and bruise to be swelling up. She was driving a ford ka. The front bumper was off, the bonnet crumpled and her radiator had let go and was steaming and spewing water.

The rear bumper on the good old 7 had a small scratch. Less than an inch. Apart fom that ... no damage.

And that is why ladies and germs that I put up with the abuse I get for driving a big BMW.

This silly woman had to go off in an ambulance and have her car towed off for extensive repairs. I barely felt the impact and wont even bother claiming from her for the minute scratch on my car.

When I consider that normally my 4 year old Daughter would have been sat in the back of the car were it not for the school holidays then I thank god that someone makes road legal tanks.

/Edit ... the nice policeman who turned up with the ambulance has just phoned me up to ask if I would be a witness against her for dangerous driving due to lighting the fag while waving to her friend in the other lane being the likely cause of the accident.

I told him I would think about it and let him know ... what do you think. Has she suffered enough or does she deserve 5 - 12 points on her license (coppers guestimate if she gets convicted) ???
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 20:43, Reply)