Defender 1, Transit 0

[GBMUD]

Third accident in the space of a year this morning when a water board Transit van changed lanes on me and his plastic rear bumper got hooked in my rapidly decelerating front bumper - with predictable results.

Staggeringly a witness stopped and had seen the whole thing - thankfully from my perspective.

No pictures I am sorry to say.

Chris

[Les Henson]

That was close Chris. I take it he no longer has a rear bumper, any damage to your truck?

Les.

[GBMUD]

There is some damage to the NS end of the bumper and the NS wing outer. The transit has lost his bumper end cap - which is quite a big piece of plastic on the new shape ones. Most importantly, nobody was hurt although there was nearly a punch-up between the transit driver and the witness but I managed to separate them.

Chris

[Guest diesel_jim]

There is some damage to the NS end of the bumper and the NS wing outer. The transit has lost his bumper end cap - which is quite a big piece of plastic on the new shape ones. Most importantly, nobody was hurt although there was nearly a punch-up between the transit driver and the witness but I managed to separate them.

Chris

I bet your neck is sore this morning though isn't it Chris?

[SteveG]

Bloody white van drivers!

Steve

[T1G UP]

It goes like that some years, i haven't claimed for 4 years untill last year.Had 4 claims on the companies van in a year!

Claim away,you could get a set of north off road wing bars for the price of a new wing on a defender

[pugwash]

so what emblems do you have painted on your door now, in your hall of "vehicle death" fame

A citroen and a ford- what else? You are certainly missing out on some of the higher class stuff- try for a beemer or Merc next time.

[TJ101]

I could be a witness, am sure the l/h rear door and wing, took a knock as well

Time for a avatar change to dagenham dustbin

[Top90]

You need wider tyres, they bounce off them then before hitting any panels as the defender has flared wheelarches.

I've had a few vans change lane on me like you had. Seems once you are in their blind spot they just change lane and expect the other driver to take evasive action. I don't.

Rich

[GBMUD]

I've had a few vans change lane on me like you had. Seems once you are in their blind spot they just change lane and expect the other driver to take evasive action. I don't.

Me neither. As an ex-white van man I speak from experience that he was simply not looking/did not care.

Cheers

Chris

There seems to be some problem with my new avatar...

[Mark]

I dunno... it looks like a flattened citroen....

[GBMUD]

I dunno... it looks like a flattened citroen....

Yes, it should look different - uploading a new avatar seems just to have changed the ratio of the old one. I am hoping an admin might be able to see the problem.

Chris

[Turbocharger]

Oh dear Chris, more paperwork. Which LR?

You could come and work for us - we're putting all our drivers through an advanced driving course so they can anticipate muppets more readily. Unfortunately most of ours are on board already...

[GBMUD]

Which one? The new bloomin' one.

TBH I saw him coming and reacted by braking, swerving as far as I dared into the next lane and hooting. Trouble was, I was just not quick enough. Odd that I used to do 50k/year company miles with private on top of that with no accidents in 6+ years yet now I do only limited private mileage I seem to get hit all the time. Still, that is it now, three times...

Chris

[Mo Murphy]

You're a flippin' accident magnet !

Mo

[Exmoor Beast]

An old girlfriend of mine did 3 cars in one day, drove in to back of someone, got picked up from casualty after a check over and her mate let her drive back to work (to jump straight back on the horse so to speak), back at work she was a bit distracted still and opened the drivers door just as a car was passing, goodbye door. then some went into the back of her dads car on the way home.

Lucy was nearly as bad when she was pregnant, in the space of a couple of weeks she hit every panel on my Dads Montego except the roof.

Glad you are OK anyway Chris, lets hope thats an end to it now.

Will

[western]

Chris, maybe cos the new 110 is white they just ignore it or think it's another 'white van' & it'll get out the way, paint the 110 blue or red to make it more visible

hope your OK & sorry to hear the 110's had another knock.

[smo]

Who are the water board....no such company im afraid!

Guessing by the location it was one of our vans....was it blue, with the name beginning with "W" on the side per chance??

[Guest diesel_jim]

Guessing by the location it was one of our vans....was it blue, with the name beginning with "W" on the side per chance??

"ankers plc"?

[smo]

"ankers plc"?

LOL - nah, we're not actually a PLC

[T1G UP]

Who are the water board....no such company im afraid!

Guessing by the location it was one of our vans....was it blue, with the name beginning with "W" on the side per chance??

Yeh sorry waterboard hat ever next,GPO!

[GBMUD]

Not wishing to identify the company directly, yes, same region, blue van, chevrons on the back.

Chris