Got broadsided today on the way to work :(

[Grimbo]

Driving to work today.. sigh!

I saw some really stupid driving this morning, figured they must have had a chav-amnesty and given them all their licenses back. Anyway, I wasn't too fussed as none of it had affected me until I got near work.

Sat at a set of lights, 2 lanes. Outside goes straight ahead. Left goes left and straight ahead.. but it's rare people do that due to parked cars ahead. So I'm in the outside with everyone else.
Silver 53 plate mondeo pulls up behind me and stops, then suddenly swaps to the inside. I just figured, make your mind up mate and didn't think owt more of it. I'd not seen him before this point, he must have appeared from a different direction.

Lights turn green, cars ahead of me pull away slowly, I pull away behind them, cars in left lane turn left.. mondeo beside me at this point doesn't go left, he goes straight ahead, then suddenly starts to drift right AT my car. Clearly he wants to be in my lane now..
So, I slowed down to give him some space figuring he'd just pull in infront, but no.. he wants to be in my lane NOW where I AM.. and I can't go any further right as there's a filter lane for the opposide side to my right.
Yep, he suddenly just pulls hard right on me giving me the w**ker sign, I end up in the filter lane for the opposide side, can't move any further and his car hits mine, this awful rubbing, grinding sound
Cars were so close the mirrors had overlapped, it was insane, what was he doing??!! I just braked hard and virtually stopped, so he boots it off giving me the same sign out of his now open window and loads of shouting.

See a nasty dent in his front wheel arch and a big scrape down the side of his car and turns off right through a gap in the opposite trafic that I can't follow him through as it closed up when I got there.
So, it's a hit and run now I didn't get time to take his reg..

I got to work, 2mins up the road, really upset and dreading seeing the damage. And there was none. I had rubber from his tires on my front passenger alloy and thats it. My car took a quality chunk out of his! Serves him right.. I hope it costs hundreds of quid to fix.
Think it's the black plastic trim around my Mini that saved it's skin.

Dispicable people like this ruin the day for everyone and make the roads unsafe. I hope someone drops a steel girder on him... it's what folks like that deserve.
Completely unprovoked, I'd given him loads of space but clearly it wasn't enough for this idiot..

Still, his day will be more ruined than mine when he gets the bill for his repairs.. HAHA justice.




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[Spamini]

People like that make you sick. My mini is in for repair and I have a VW Lupo as a courtesy car. Parked it on the road for the night, and in the morning found someone had ran in the back of it! When I informed the garage they told me I would have to pay the £500 excess on their insurance! The only consolation is that it wasn't my mini that got hit, but I am fuming at having to pay for someone else's indiscretion. Rang the police but they just weren't interested without a witness.

[ayde_bury]

Hi,

Not sure where you stand legally, but it may be worth mentioning it to the local police just in case you are not his only victim. Perhaps that damage wasn't from your MINI.

But of course more importantly glad you and your MINI escaped pretty much unharmed - tough little cars

Ayde

[dakini]

was going to say the same thing ... let the local police know so that he doesn't try to accuse you of being a hit and run.

glad your MINI escaped damage.

[Grimbo]

Very tough little cars!! Totally fabulous really considering this was a moving collision. I'm so proud of it taking a chunk out of his car and wallet and yet remaining 100% unscathed itself

A couple of months back, some dizzy girl drove into the rear drivers corner of my girlfriend's MCC. Not one scrape on her MINI. The girls car was a corsa and the front wing was DESTROYED!!

Scumbags like that bloke aught to be taken off the road. And shot. Worthless idiots!
What gets me though. It was a 53 plate Mondeo, it was clean, in good nick. Not a horrible beat up old car. So why was he driving it like that? Unless he'd nicked it someone at work suggested. He was in a hurry by the looks of it and didn't care what he hit.


I didn't get a chance to get his reg. Just 53 silver Mondeo, very clean. There wasn't a mark on it before he hit mine, I'd have noticed as I was looking carefully at it after he switched lanes from behind me. I was keeping an eye on him to see if he turned left as I figured he was impatient and was gonna go straight ahead from that lane to cut out the trafic jam

[dakini]

eh, for all you know, his wife just killed herself and he's just in a state. sometimes people are driving when they shouldn't be. hopefully for everyone's sake he's not so horribly a driver normally.

[MarkPe]

Thats the kind of MINI adventure I could do without having. Glad the car and yourself are ok.

[JG.26]

Sorry to hear what happened to you, terrible people on our roads at times who knows why he did what he did, maybe had just stolen the car, maybe his wife was giving birth maybe he's the one in three drivers on our roads taking drugs or maybe he was just plain plastered. Still no excuse for dangerous driving and what annoys me is people like this don't give a second thought to killing someone on our roads.

[JG.26]

Quote: Originally Posted by dakini

eh, for all you know, his wife just killed herself and he's just in a state. sometimes people are driving when they shouldn't be. hopefully for everyone's sake he's not so horribly a driver normally.

If all us drivers wore a dakini flower in our button hole then maybe driving would be much more pleasurable

[MiniCooper]

Gone are the days when people would stop and leave their details even if there was no damage... people just blatently hit cars, and then drive off choosing to ignore the possible expense they've caused. On the other hand, I think the black plastic cladding on cars... although sometimes ugly, does a hell of a job in saving £1000's.

[pardonator]

Sounds like he got what he deserved, glad yours is ok!

[Grimbo]

Yep, maybe he did have an emergency or sumething nasty had happened..
However, I gave him the opportunity to get into the space infront of me which someone in a hurry would have taken. But he decided to try and ram me and cause an accident.. then give me abuse, for this there is no excuse!! He was just a nasty git out to cause some grief.
He just looked like an aggressive meathead thug to me.

Scum. Pure scum. One day he'll come a cropper...

[Saad]

MINIs are really tough on the side. Some woman pulled away from the opposite side of the road straight into me about 6 months ago. Real Footballers Wives type (I'm from Essex, what do you expect....?), real arsey about giving me her details trying to deny responsibility. I just played it cool and said don't worry, insurance comapnies will work this out. I won obviously, but what made me happy was my MINI needed a new drivers door, new front right wheel, new front and rear arch plastic trim, and new rear quarter panel, but her car needed a whole new front and side to it. I just had to have the side fixed and the damage wasn't too bad but her E Class Mercedes was really wrecked. Was awesome. Shows there is justice in the world!

[smurfette]

I am glad you and your car are ok. Don't worry he will get his one day