some tw@ hit my C43 AMG!!!

[blackbeast]

thank you andy, maybe i should of been abit more carefull on this inperticular bend, and as the road was abit greasy. Next time and every time i will!!
i only took this route as a last decition as i thought i could go to my sisters anoughter way. I never been on this road so i was unfamilliar with it, and yes another reason to be extra coursious.
Its happend now and was lucky nothing extra happend like pedestrians getting hurt.
The car was taken thursday evening to a garge place that my insurrance company took up. On the next day (friday) the car had been imaged and pics were emaild to whoever their sent to. An assesor did his work either on that friday or monday, as on monday they said that they were'nt going to fix it as it would be to much for them to pay out due to my value. (7000). So i have accepted that it to be written a cat c and they paying out 6000 and giving my car back too.

Joby.

 

[A210AMG]

Hello,


Looking at what I can see from pictures the road looks very narrow given the parked cars, I would guess even 25mph would be too fast.

Seems odd that a C43 drven at 25mph cold not stop.

However who'c blaming who on the insurance? are you climing of the stationary van?

looks like van 1 merc 0 in the pics....

 

[blackbeast]

i have to go out now but please carry on your thoughts.
I think if the roads wernt as greasy then a c43 it def would of stopped.
We are both blaiming each other.

Joby.

 

[Howard]

Hi mate,

I feel for you , but .... what is the story ?

The white Van was stationary parked on his side of the road (which was blocking the road off)

So basically He wasnt on his side... he was infact blocking a road on a bend blinded by parked cars!

Joby.

Which is the correct information ?

Even if there was no white lines, the moment you crossed the imaginary centre of the road , technically you were in the wrong .

To then crash into a stationary car regardless of where he is parked , how can you say the blame is 50/50 ?

He's not actually moving , so how is it his fault at all ? , he is parked against the kerb , on his side of the road, he hasn't pulled over ...

Assuming you both drive on the left , he has pulled over to his left to sit next to the kerb , so hasn't crossed the imaginary white line , you however , have ( because there was parked cars ) crossed the 'line' and then crashed into him , while he was stationary ....

Not doubting you , just can't get my head round it ....

Good luck with the claim and the sale .... don't take it personally, it just is hard to understand .....

 

[gaz_l]

I'm sorry, but your tale still doesn't come across well..

If you collide with a stationary vehicle, the fault in the eyes of the insurance company lies with you as you did not anticipate the road conditions, regardless of whether the other vehicle was parked correctly or otherwise.

The amount of damage to your car also seems excessive in view of your version of events?

Gaz

 

[robert.saunders]

... some days you are the statue

 

[crockers]

I'm really sorry to hear about your accident...but can you explain to me how the van driver can be judged to be 50% at fault.....IMHO - any stationary car can not have hit you...YOU hit him...so it must be your fault.

Ok he may have been parked in a silly place but that doesnt mean you are not in the wrong for hitting him.

Anyway its all done now and I wish you all the best with your car. Why did you take it back? I would have just wanted the money from the insurance company and bought another. If they weren't willing to give you the fair valuation - use adverts for similar cars to justify the price you wanted. I wouldnt go telling them about any improvements you made to the car which were not standard Merc parts.. for example you have non standard merc wheels on... If the insurer wanted to play hard ball he can say that is a modification that you haven't reported and cancel your insurance....trust me they are within their rights, it can be argued that perhaps the wheels may have affected your stopping abilities or handling characteristics.

Just some thoughts

Good luck

 

[crockers]

... some days you are the statue

frigging pigeons..........

 

[blackbeast]

^Thank u howard - crockers for a readable post.

yes i must admit if i was reading a thread i would probably get bit confused too.
The van man had just pulled over to drop off something to his freind blocking the road prior to me be there and had just pulled away as we met, he told me after we got both cars off the road and were chatting normally.
I think ive confused people by saying he was stationary, He was stationary apart from when i turned up, as he just pulled away towards me. He must of been doing under 10mph when we collieded.

Joby.

 

[glojo]

Hi Joby,
Hopefully we are not being rude but we are posting our true believes. From your posts I would not have acted so quickly and I still cannot understand how an insurance company can make an offer without obtaining an engineers\assessors report? I might think your car is a write-off, you might think the car is a write-off, indeed the assessor might think it is a write-off, but it still must be examined and surely the insurance company would want documentation before paying out THOUSANDS of pounds? Your saying all this has been done on telephone calls?

Regarding the accident
None of us were there, but we all must drive at a speed we can stop in the distance that we can see to be safe. Supposing that wasn't a van but some children playing games? The collision would have still occurred and I guarantee you would not be calling us names for criticising your driving skills? Hopefully, as a conscientious considerate driver you would be devasted by your actions? The important thing is that no-one was injured, but if the Vauxhalll was stationary then does it matter if the driver was wearing a seat belt? We are talking about a collision between two vehicles.

IF your insurance has paid out then it will be paying these funds from your insurance and that's your no claims bonus that is being hit? If and it is a big IF.... If the other driver writes his versions of events and this illustrates the incident was his fault then your insurance company will recover the money from his insurance, but from what your saying, will that happen? Has your insurance company received a copy of this person's version of events, sketch etc and if not how comes decisions are being made??

Your first post gave the impression that all these issues had been resolved but from your subsequent posts it looks like it is all just telephone calls which are pure hearsay. IF this is a factual account of events then I would slow down and reconsider all my options.

Regards
John

 

[crockers]

^Thank u howard for a readable post.

yes i must admit if i was reading a thread i would probably get bit confused too.
The van man had just pulled over to drop off something to his freind blocking the road prior to me be there and had just pulled away as we met, he told me after we got both cars off the road and were chatting normally.

Joby.

So he wasn't stationary ..........?????

 

[chriswt]

i have to go out now but please carry on your thoughts.
I think if the roads wernt as greasy then a c43 it def would of stopped.
We are both blaiming each other.

Joby.

Come on Joby, we weren't born yesterday, we're all drivers and are intelligent enough to imagine what actually happened. Your stories are riddled with holes and little of it makes any sense.

I very much doubt that any decent drive who was aware of the road conditions would have driven head on into a van parked in the middle of the road.

Until you can come up with a plausable and vaild reason for how you managed to get yourself into this easily avoidable situation then you'll be accused of driving without due car an attention.

I'm sorry Joby but you've done yourself no favours!

P.S posted a picture of a speedo showing over 160mph doesn't help.

 

[csx355]

1000 hardcore bhp roarrrrrrrrrrr . . . . . . . Smash

 

[blackbeast]

ok thanks.
i am off out now i will be back on later.
I think that my story has confused many of you alot. maybe i just type things out the wrong way round.???
My cav turbo clock pic is actually from a disused AirStrip rough ground.
going that kind of speed on the roads are totaly insayne due the care and saftey of other road users.
Where i go are alot of motobike high powerfull ones that race up n down the runway every week.
Joby.

 

[SilverSaloon]

this is bad that its 50/50.

you are clearly to blame. How can he be to blame if he was stationary? you should have avoided the obsticle. if not then you were not driving carefully enough.

sorry but thats the way the insurance *should* be taking this. they will probably argue it out between themselves

 

[A210AMG]

Hello,


The van was stationary, ooh no it was moving. It had pulled in, ooh no it was doing 10mph...

mmmmmm your right WE were not their so only you know what really happened. Rightly or wrongly and probably wrongly we assume you like your fast cars (picture of speedo, big bhp cars etc) now theres nothing wrong with that but it gives us a picture.....

I know we shouldn't but look at what we have to go on, fast car driven down a narrow road at only 25mph albeit in on a greasy road (Abs?), and a story that isn't the best...

At the end of the day its lumps of metal that were damaged and that can be sorted, god forbid it could have been far worse. As said only you will know if you were maybe going a tad too fast for the road / circumstances.

How's the insurance going to be on the cavs after this incident? have you protected no claims?


At the end of the day I hope it all gets sorted but you have to agree from our point of views sat by our monitors it does all seem a little odd.


Cheers

 

[blackbeast]

1000 hardcore bhp roarrrrrrrrrrr . . . . . . . Smash

again arnt i aloud to love cars and powerfull ones? and have a hardcore bhp thingy writing under my name?? 1000bhp in total... cant i be proud to own that amount of power between my cars??? my passion??? it does have a " LOL" along with my signature. surely i had a laugh at writting that??? and not taking it to seriouse. maybe everyone should not edit anything of theirs incase people take you the wrong way??? what a boring way of doing everything hmmm...

Joby.

 

[chriswt]

Come on Joby, we weren't born yesterday, we're all drivers and are intelligent enough to imagine what actually happened. Your stories are riddled with holes and little of it makes any sense.

I very much doubt that any decent drive who was aware of the road conditions would have driven head on into a van parked in the middle of the road.

Until you can come up with a plausable and vaild reason for how you managed to get yourself into this easily avoidable situation then you'll be accused of driving without due car an attention.

I'm sorry Joby but you've done yourself no favours!

P.S posted a picture of a speedo showing over 160mph doesn't help.

Look, maybe it's not great to here all these negative and slating replies but we all have families and alot have children as, I believe do you!

If it wasn't a van, but a child your sitation would hae ruined more than just a C43.

Regardless of greasy, unfamiliar, bendy roads, driving at speed (any speed) around a blind bend is dangerous.

Please think of the most precious things in your life (your children) and consider the situation if someone else was driving in exactly the way you were... then imagine what would have happened if the Astra Van was your parked C43 and you children were in the car too?!?

It doesn't bear thinking about does it!

We can only let your conscience be your guide.

 

[SilverSaloon]

now that guy has a claim on his insurance for something he had NO way of avoiding - the car was stationary.

how can a stationary car hit your moving car!??

i think you're lucky with the insurance.... the claims handler must have been an idiot and i'm very surprised the van's insurer settled at that.

tell me this..... if someone drove into your car as it was parked at the side of the road would you expect to have a 50/50 claim?

personally i see you 100% to blame but that just my opinion. dont come on the forum if you cant take the rough with the smooth.

good luck in sorting/selling the bits from you car.... sounds like you got a deal all round with this...

 

[crockers]

Come on guys ... I agree it APPEARS that he is in the wrong - BUT - lets not get too personal here.....This is a friendly forum and this is getting a little fraught....