So just over 2 weeks ownership and some idiot has crashed into it. I just can't fathom the mentality of some of our fellow species.
This morning, after dropping the kids to school, my wife was driving down the road past the school entrance - a 2 way road that, for much of it, requires single file traffic to pass parked cars. With the path ahead clear, she went to pull around a parked car (so therefore offside wheels over the line) and jumped on the brakes as some fool pulled into her path and raced into the way.
I would stress that he was not taking avoiding action and had every opportunity to stop; or indeed reverse back out of the way, unlike my wife, who had another car right up behind her. Instead, he wound down his window, screaming at my wife and banging on the car and proceeded to drive down the side of the car on purpose, scraping it on his way and knocking the mirror in.
He then got out and started thumping on the window and yelling some more at my, by now, rather terrified wife. They somehow managed to swap details while he shouted at her continuously and aggressively for over 10 minutes about how he was going to screw her over because it was her fault because she was on the wrong side of the road and there was nothing she could do about it. He actually said he wasn't going to risk his alloys on the curb when she was there so, effectively admitted to driving into her on purpose.
Fortunately my wife got the details of a witness in the car behind - another mortified school mum. He also apparently got a witness, though I'm unsure as to what side they'll come down on.
We now have a contested insurance claim (he was in an N reg Omega ... not exactly much book value!) and a damaged car; not to mention a very shaken up wife.
I was so furious this morning I almost contemplated contacting the police to see if any of his behaviour constituted a criminal act, however I have my doubts and also reckon it would be troublesome to prove. Deliberate attempted insurance fraud springs to mind and a tangential issue to his behaviour.
Now I'm faced with sending off my once lovely new car to an unknown paint shop to trust as part of their approved network, or to use my own, but remain £600 out of pocket for the NCD until the claim is settled. Either way I still have to wait and see what the respective insurance solicitors will decide for my fate and face potential higher premiums even with a "successful" non-fault claim.
I guess some people are just born that way ...
This morning, after dropping the kids to school, my wife was driving down the road past the school entrance - a 2 way road that, for much of it, requires single file traffic to pass parked cars. With the path ahead clear, she went to pull around a parked car (so therefore offside wheels over the line) and jumped on the brakes as some fool pulled into her path and raced into the way.
I would stress that he was not taking avoiding action and had every opportunity to stop; or indeed reverse back out of the way, unlike my wife, who had another car right up behind her. Instead, he wound down his window, screaming at my wife and banging on the car and proceeded to drive down the side of the car on purpose, scraping it on his way and knocking the mirror in.
He then got out and started thumping on the window and yelling some more at my, by now, rather terrified wife. They somehow managed to swap details while he shouted at her continuously and aggressively for over 10 minutes about how he was going to screw her over because it was her fault because she was on the wrong side of the road and there was nothing she could do about it. He actually said he wasn't going to risk his alloys on the curb when she was there so, effectively admitted to driving into her on purpose.
Fortunately my wife got the details of a witness in the car behind - another mortified school mum. He also apparently got a witness, though I'm unsure as to what side they'll come down on.
We now have a contested insurance claim (he was in an N reg Omega ... not exactly much book value!) and a damaged car; not to mention a very shaken up wife.
I was so furious this morning I almost contemplated contacting the police to see if any of his behaviour constituted a criminal act, however I have my doubts and also reckon it would be troublesome to prove. Deliberate attempted insurance fraud springs to mind and a tangential issue to his behaviour.
Now I'm faced with sending off my once lovely new car to an unknown paint shop to trust as part of their approved network, or to use my own, but remain £600 out of pocket for the NCD until the claim is settled. Either way I still have to wait and see what the respective insurance solicitors will decide for my fate and face potential higher premiums even with a "successful" non-fault claim.
I guess some people are just born that way ...