maby66

Glad you are safe.

Nick Graves

Sorry to hear it & hope it gets sorted OK.

TBF, there is a huge invisibility cone around the NSF of the high-datum version of cabs often favoured on long-distance wagons & it's very easy to lose a small sports car in there. With mini cameras & sensors, it's something that's really not beyond the wit of man (or MAN, probably) to solve - it's far too common an occurrence on crowded motorways.

cheggers

Sorry to hear what has happened. Especially seeing how your S was in the best colour too.

kind of reminds me of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lze88sU9IGg

GrittyShaker

Cheers all.

Tom, I CGAF if the driver of the truck is OK, but I would assume that he's fine. More's the pity. Insurance are on the case, but I've not heard from them since Thursday, when they arranged my loan car. I'll hopefully get a call from them tomorrow, and if not I'll give them a buzz myself to see what's happening. My witness is/has submitting/submitted her statement, so things are happening at least.

Arsie, you're quite right. It could have been far, far worse, particularly if I hadn't regained control after the first shunt.

Hindsight though, eh? No, the police weren't involved, and I'm kicking myself for it now. He stopped (eventually), there were no injuries, we exchanged details. In my slightly shocked state the thought never occurred to me to involve the authorities.

arsie

Nothing to stop you reporting this to the authorities now, is there? After due thought, recovery from shock etc

At least, it was without due care and attention and if texting they take a dim view.

Next time he might kill. You would never forgive yourself.

Report him now.

martin j

I agree with arsie, reporting the driver now can do no harm as it will give an incident number at least, if they ask why you waited until now there's is always the "no one hurt would you have come out?" answer. If these accidents happen because of badly designed cabs shouldn't they be changing something quickly, driver error I reckon( the hgv not you Scott) whatever he was doing, hope his next sh*t is a hedgehog.

gt750boy

Speaking as someone that was the victim of an idiot shunting my car from behind, and now suffering with a lifelong brain injury, sometimes injuries take a while to manifest themselves. If you suffer any headaches or stiffness in the neck, shoulders, back over the next coming weeks make sure you get a thorough exam by a neurologist and orthopaedist, and whatever you do DO NOT sign off saying everything is ok until as least six months have gone by without any symptoms.

hammyS2

It chokes you to see damage like this although the main thing is you are OK Gritty so for that. Hope you get it all resolved without frustration.

Rob@ReidyRacing

Oooh nasty...Wiplash?Were you ok? That looks like quite a nasty rear impact...

I know this is really low, but if you break the car can I get dibs on the passenger front headlight?

Rob

GrittyShaker

No lower than the other requests I've had via PM.

A bloke I work with is wanting to buy it back once it has been written off, and second dibs is going to someone who PM'd me a couple of days ago, and left me in the awkward position of having to PM him as he's put all buying plans for his project on hold until he hears from me. I would rather just get my own problems sorted TBH, and not have other people's stress forced upon me. That's not to say your request is an issue, so don't think I'm having a go at you.

Re: Reporting to the police, I've exchanged PMs with our resident traffic bobby John57, and it sounds very much like it will do nothing other than give me more work and stress to deal with. For that reason I'm not going to bother.

I'm waiting for my Manager to sort out her statement now. She received it on Saturday, and said she was "going to bring it to work to do today, but forgot so will have to bring it tomorrow". Obviously it's not urgent or anything.