sgnas Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Yet, somehow this happened It was this far from the road The culprit SOME of the other damage Now, if I done the damage myself I wold not get if fixed. The Landrover already has bigger dents! However, the eyebrow is split. And worse, a practically new BFG has a bit torn from the sidewall. Amazingly no glass is broken, and a brick has gone through the garage door! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diesel_jim Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Holy cr@p batman! was he asleep? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pux Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 blimey i'm glad no one was hurt!!! Is that road in picket piece?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Where there's blame there's a claim Do you have whiplash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Crikey, good to know you are OK & the 110 is only slightly briused, get your claim for damage in quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WALFY Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Scrolling down the pics my first thought was that you had a rough drive with bricks thrown all over the shop . As has been said lucky it's only a tyre and plastic arch. Could of been worse if you were getting into the vehicle at the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgnas Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 blimey i'm glad no one was hurt!!! Is that road in picket piece?? Yup, well spotted. Pop round, I'm easy to find. It's the house with no front wall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgnas Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 Holy cr@p batman! was he asleep? Dunno, whatever he was doing he made no attempt to negotiate the small kink in the road. Police can only try for "without due care......" type prosecution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 bet his tachograph disk has been siezed by the police, if not it should have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pux Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Yup, well spotted.Pop round, I'm easy to find. It's the house with no front wall I used to train with a fella up that way and every time we walked down to the pitches to play Rugby the lorrys used to scream down that road i hope it gets sorted quickly and easily unlike the 2 years it took me to take a lorry driver to court for the damage he caused my old disco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 I don't think there's any doubt whose insurance company will be stumping up for that lot, at the very least an eyebrow and a tyre, a real picky g1t would claim for paint / panel damage and possibly a respray to make good - if it was any other car that would be the case anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgnas Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 Apart from no one being injured, my biggest relief was that the truck had UK plates. Still got the hassle of contacting the insurance companies though. Missed our 1800 litre oil tank by 2ft, but the debris shower has moved it 3 inches and has some deep gouges in it! Damage spotted so far Neighbours wall Our wall Garage door Car Oil tank 4Ft mature hedge Neighbours wall 2 8inch wooden gateposts Gate more wall Neighbours porch I guess as it was straddling the wall there was not much braking effort from the tyres. It was already on the pavement well out of shot of pic 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 I use that scaffolding firm from time to time there driver's are never in a sodding hurry of me good to hear no one was hurts could have been very different Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 My Aunty once woke up in the middle of the night to hear a loud crash and found she couldn't open the door to her liiving room as it was being blocked by an artic lorry which had taken residence in the middle of her shagpile She moved 8 months later when a fuel tanker came for a night time visit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotal Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Wow - you were lucky. I like to see you've got your priorities right (your garage looks bigger than your house ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantd5 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Hey the fella lost his DROP ARM.... Good to have you in a piece.. But the Landy is another subject of discussion..... Blame=Claim.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
q-rover Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 So you'll be getting 4 new tyres. A good excuse to get something better than those rubbish BFG's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 A home near Tiverton had suffered the "crash into our garden repeatedly situation" He has since had the mother of all walls built that just looks like a brick wall on the outside but goes down nearly a metre and has steel reinforced concrete behind, Then next car/small lorry hitting it will be shocked for sure, next time I pass I'll get a pic as it doesn't appear as what it actually is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgnas Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 Wow - you were lucky.I like to see you've got your priorities right (your garage looks bigger than your house ) The Landrovers are too tall for that garage I have a bigger one further down the drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacr2man Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 A bit OT but there is a wall at the bottom of the hill at a T junction at Upper Heyford, used to be an USAF base. Well they used to come down the hill (supposed to be a 30 limit) , and fail to make the turn, and knock the wall down. One yank tank actually got thru the wall and crossed about 25 foot of garden and hit the lounge wall. This was obviously the final straw, so when he rebuilt the wall they pile drove ( is that the phrase) 3 lengths of railway line down into the ground and welded two lengths across, then built the wall around it. Now all that happens is a few bits of Cotswold stone gets crushed, cos the wall dont move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nas90 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 We have a low brick wall outside of the factory and thats been knocked down more than a few times. Just after a right angled bend in the factory estate and they come bowling up to the corner and then realise it's a corner........... We were in France / Belgium for a road book event, started about 06-00 hrs, there was a classic Rangie (Brit) who was one of the first off, long straight had a puncture careered across the road and the Rangie stuffed it's bonnet in someones house without any front garden or wall. Never realised how those French houses in a village by the road are so poorly built! As we came past the Lady owner was remonstrating with the poor old Rangie driver dressed in her dressing gown with a big hole in her front room! Very little damage appeared to have been suffered by the Rangie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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