Grrrrr Idiot drivers

[fossyant]

My wife has just come back....some woman has gone into the back of my car... wife and daughter fine, if shook up. We'll see how she feels in the morning though....

The woman was putting make-up on whilst driving and went into the back of my car at a roundabout.... Fortunately, the guy following also saw her applying plaster and we've got the details.

Police are not interested.......

Fortunately, none of the metal body work appears damaged, the bumper took it. So a new bumper for me....glad it's not metal as it's always difficult to blend in metallic silver.

If she phones our house I'll have 'words' about driving and applying make up.

 

[jig-sore]

Police are not interested.......

I'd be tempted to see if the local paper are

 

[wafflycat]

Ah, now this is what explains Greedo's obtuse thread then. Plod aren't interested unless someone is injured. Happened to me and plod really didn't want to know. Being shook up and a driver refusing to hand over details for insurance purposes and plod didn't want to know. Glad The Fossy Ladies are ok.

 

[rich p]

I was on the bike last week waiting to enter a very busy roundabout and a young woman driving a huge 4x4 pulled up beside me with a dog on her lap and using a mobile phone.
One despairs, doesn't one

 

[661-Pete]

I was on the bike last week waiting to enter a very busy roundabout and a young woman driving a huge 4x4 pulled up beside me with a dog on her lap and using a mobile phone.
One despairs, doesn't one

Blimey! Was the conversation all about "sausages"?

Sorry, couldn't resist! I did read once about a car being pulled over with a dog driving, the owner taking a snooze meanwhile. But that one's probably emerged from the seas of apocrypha...

 

[MacB]

I cycled to the supermarket ealier and the car park was mobbed, quite a bit was unuseable due to snow/ice. There's a mini RDB near the main entrance which I cycle up to then turn left to go to the bike racks. Youngish woman comes from my left, turning right, but ignores the RDB altogether, turning onto my side of road, causing me to brake sharply and swerve. She was driving one handed while munching down one of those chicken skewer things. I gave her a hard stare and she mouthed 'f*ck off' to me before driving off. Though she at least stuck the skewer in her mouth and used both hands on the wheel to get back on the right side of the road

It must be the cars themselves, because I've been genuinely heartened by the amount of good deeds I've witnessed in these recent conditions. Stick them back inside the little metal box and it's business as usual.

 

[rich p]

Blimey! Was the conversation all about "sausages"?

The dog was on the dog and bone

 

[Lardyboy]

Glad that the only thing that's got damaged is a bit of plastic fossyant. I know it can shake you up having just a minor shunt.

 

[summerdays]

I hope they are still feeling OK in the morning... and that the lady in question has learnt a lesson.

I've been genuinely heartened by the amount of good deeds I've witnessed in these recent conditions. Stick them back inside the little metal box and it's business as usual.

We were dropping a daughter off at a party and then stopped at a supermarket on the way home for some milk. We went to leave and just span the wheels on the ice and slight slope up to the exit. We tried pushing, digging at the ice etc, and then a kindly gentleman came and helped (push, sholve, more pushing etc) until we were up the slope. Apparently lots of people had been stuck there that day.

 

[marinyork]

There was a supermarket here that during the first cold snap from 17th December onwards had staff ordered outside clearing the snow and problems in the car park and main road and out pushing cars up the slopes.

 

[Panter]

Glad it wasn't too serious and hope they feel Ok tomorrow.

 

[Dilbert]

Glad everyones OK. Annoying the police won't do anything just because she was lucky not to injure someone this time.

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Fortunately, none of the metal body work appears damaged, the bumper took it. So a new bumper for me....glad it's not metal as it's always difficult to blend in metallic silver.

I would get it to a garage and get it looked at just to be on the safe side. I had this happen to me many moons ago, there didn't appear to be any damage so we shook hands and went on our way (the driver wasn't doing his make up). About three months later I found the well under the boot full of water as there was a minor deformation of the area under the bumper which was allowing water in via the rear fog light.

 

[longers]

Glad everyones OK. Annoying the police won't do anything just because she was lucky not to injure someone this time.

I agree with this. If I were in your shoes Fossy I'd be hopping mad but the best way would be to complain as calmly as you can to as high a policer as you can.

 

[fossyant]

The car is going into the body shop - via insurance...... she can get stung for it... no idea of the damage underneath, but 'cosmetically' it's minor.

Wife and daughter OK this morning...

I'll phone the woman tomorrow and give her my insurance details and have a 'little dig' - I'm not 'involved' in the incident..... I feel a need to write a 'letter' to the local paper.

As mentioned by others, there has been a good 'community spirit' locally, but get in that box......... and ignore the road conditions.......

Daft thing is, my wife took my car as it's much bigger and heavier than hers, and she was driving carefully after her 'little spin' earlier in the week... - she was taking my daughter to a party 10 miles away......