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My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youAlso, ignore the shite that Halfrauds sell.
My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI was working in a office tower overlooking a carpark when, together with colleagues, we saw a driver hit another car. He furtively looked around, saw us watching him, proceeded to leave a note, and drove away. One of the guys decided to quickly take a lift down and ran across the carpark to check the note. .
The offending driver wrote: I hit your car!!! LOL
No, but I've scraped 2 cars and left notes. Both went through the insurance and the people who's cars I damaged were made good.
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Left his number plate embedded in my car..
Called the police who caught him, quarantined his car. ... he denied everything, went to court and was found guilty, banned from driving and heavily fined.
Because he denied everything, his insurance company wouldn't pay out, and since my insurance covered write off, until his insurance paid it goes as a fault against me. So my current insurance price has skyrocketed.. Even after conviction, it's taken almost a year and litigation to get his insurance to pay.
Proper dick.
Best was my old foreman. We'd had a hire car handed back, and due to the yard being extremely full, it was parked a bit awkwardly in front of the workshop.
I drove a recovery lorry in, and it was a bit tight to get around said hire car, but enough room to get past. Later, the foreman decided he'd put the lorry back out. I was working on something else, and was only half paying attention to what he was doing. Just as I had the realisation of where he was heading and the thought 'I wonder if he's noticed that hire car', all that could be heard was an almighty crunch, followed by him staggering in sweating profusely to announce 'I've just hit that car, I never seen it'.
My response of 'Given how hard you hit it, I hope you never seen it' didn't go down too well.
Result was one less than a week old VW golf with under a hundred miles on it, written off, as he hit the front corner that hard he shoved the wing and A-pillar that far back that you couldn't get the door open.
Then there was the time he hit a van parked outside reception with a lorry, and casually mentioned to the boss that it looks like somebody's hit that van.
Or his fantastic trailer reversing skills, which involved 8 cuts before jack-knifing at the workshop door before finally pushing the trailer in, which always made us question how he managed to get a trailer license.
My wife scraped an old Renault a couple of years ago but did leave a note. Cost us £250.
I reckon it's probably 50/50 on those that would/wouldn't.
Someone hit my Austin Allegro and wrote it off and I didn't get a note. Although it might have been considered a mercy killing.
I took down her details and left a note for the vehicle owner with her details and mine as a witness. They told me later they had a £500 excess which they managed to avoid.
It's a difficult situation... I can't claim he's 100% safe but if he didn't have the car he'd never go out at all and, I'm sorry to say, I fear he would then deteriorate mentally. He's not really mobile enough to walk to bus stops and none of the family live close enough to ferry him around on a day-to-day basis.
As it is, he now only drives locally on relatively slow, quiet roads. No fast A roads, certainly no motorways. If he has a medical appointment or something further afield my brother takes him.
It's not ideal, and of course it's no consolation to anyone he might prang in a low-speed impact in a car park, but for the time being it's just about working.
Sensors are not a bad idea.
Would anyone pass a retest? I'm a non-driver (took tests, never passed) but I've always assumed people develop so many bad habits after they pass that they'd be bound to fuck up if they had a retest years later.
@Philly_Q this is what Age UK recommend for people over 70 who feel they might need some support with driving.
With my father in the end the GP said he wasn't fit to drive and wrote to the DVLA. He found it very upsetting, although the same happened with my father in law who seemed completely non plussed.