Car crash that turned into an attempted mugging!
About 6 months ago I was driving through the backstreets of Oxford when a car ran straight through a give way line in front of me. I hit the breaks but it all happened too fast and I ended up smashing into his rear side, causing the car to spin around in the road.

The damage was quite bad, the front of my car was smashed but it was still running, the side of the other car was caved in and he had two flat tyres from the spin.

I got out and calmly approached the driver only to be greeted be a furious onslaught of insults, threats, and general nastiness. The guy started accusing me to going to fast, not looking, the usual bollocks. I attempted to defuse the situation by telling the bloke not to worry about it and we should just swap details and let the insurance companies sort it out.

The guy started to look pretty panicked but agreed so I got a pen and paper out of my car whilst the guy made a phone call. It was in another language so I couldn’t understand what was being said but the guy’s attitude change quite suddenly after he got off the phone. He had a knowing smile and proceeded to stall me as long as possible by writing his details wrong, starting again, making small talk etc.

Anyway, we had just about finished exchanging details when another car arrives, a guy closely resembling the guy I had just hit (possibly a brother) gets out of the car and approaches me.

He starts with “Look, you just fucked up my mate’s car, I saw it and you need to give my mate some money to fix it now.”

The other guy joins in: “How much money you got on your mate, better give me your wallet and let me look.”

Fuck fuck fuck!!! I thought to myself so I replied with “Look mate, do you want me to call the police?”

“Keep your phone in your pocket mate, I got a knife in mine” Came the reply from the lager of the two.

Meanwhile I realised the not only was my car door still open but my engine was running so I decided to make a dash for it. I ducked sideway and legged it as fast as I could towards my car. I think this surprised them as they hesitated for a second before chasing after me and I managed to drive in and lock my car almost at the exact second one of the guy’s pulls the handle to open it. I rammed it into first and dumped the clutch grinding my way not only passed the wreaked car but also passed the newcomers 525 BMW!

By grinding I mean literally SCRAPING my car down the sides of both (it was a really narrow street and it was the only rout of escape). So leaving one wreaked Astra and one freshly managed BMW I drove off into the sunset and to my utter delight both cars were trapped and neither of the two would be assailants could manage to turn in the street to give chase!
(Minty Hit, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 9:40, Reply)