pitslayer
25-10-2007, 01:55 AM
/Grrr what a night.
left work at 5:15 ish, went the normal way through the industrial estate where we work, down the main road. im following a heavy load lorry, one used for carrying the big caterpillar diggers. behind me is a brand new citreon C somthing.
coming to the end of the road, a fiat brava has coming screaming around the bend, in a 30mph zone. he starts to loose it, then sideswipes the lorrys trailer infront of me, i get showered in glass bits of body work, lights, wing mirror. first thought "you complete tugger, i just washed and polished this, this weekend." about to stop turn the car around when i hear the big CRASH!
he side swiped the lorry missed me, i dont know how he could i was in a jag. he hit the citreon that was following me, and i mean hit them.
the citreon went from at a guess 20mph with brakes on going forwards, to a complete stop, to being catapulted backwards, to the other side of the road backwards into a tree.
get out the car running down the road, already calling 999, i was the first to ring and it took 15minutes to get them to know where i was and get patched through to all the emergency services.
looked around people everywhere checking everyone in the cars involved, me and another lorry driver start shouting at everyone to get there cars out the way so the emergency crews can get through. go check oneveryone, move my car to a sensible position in the road. the driver of the fiat has got up, got out the car and started to peg it/Grrr /Grrr he gets caught anyway,
were all stood there then, someone realises that in the fiat, theres a girl in the passenger, footwell, we didnt see her in there, wasnt wearing her belt, and slid under the dash, and crushed in.
let the emergency crews do there work, gave my details down, took up chain smoking with the lorry driver involved in the incident lol
then went up checked his lorry was ok. exchanged details as a just incase.
everyone left then, i spoke to an officer about insurance claims, took him half hour to come back to me. but the armed response unit guy and the traffic collision investigator were top notch blokes:2thumbsup
the armed response guy explained what is happening to me. then the traffic guy took pictures of my car, covered in glass, and all the marks chips and scratches that werent on there before. made sure i wasnt needed to give any more info
the run down of it is.
driver of the brava-pissed out of his skull, couldnt stand up:speechles he gave false details all the time, nor could he care about the girl in his footwell, who wasnt looking good, she had a fast police escort to hospital i hope she is ok and the elderly couple in the citreon
i feel really bad thow, i was the only one who came out relativly unscathed. and the people that didnt witness anything made me really mad.
firstly i turned around noticed the phones out, all taking pictures.
then they started shouting about how the lorry driver involved had just left the scene, if they took 30 seconds to move off the pavement and look right they would see his lorry parked up infront of my jag, if they had looked left they would of seen him, helping out.
also had to break the bad news to my brother about all the scratches on his jag.
ive got to go make a formal statement soon, which ive got no issues with, that guy needs to be locked up, and the key misplaced.
traffic officer has pics of my car to back my claim up against the drunk, and said the least i would get out of it, was a respray. but thats not really important, id rather see that everyones all right, metal can be replaced, life cant.
and me the lorry driver and the guy walking his dog spent about 10 minutes going through the "ifs" and "buts"
if i had left later, would that accident happen?
if it was 10 seconds earlier the guy walking his dog would of been killed
what if it was a child
what if the lorry wasnt there?
we all decided the lorry trailer saved our lifes
and just so you can work out how fast this guy was going. the lorry trailer, is the heavy duty one for the caterpillar diggers, i asked the lorry driver "did you feel anything in that ?" he said "yes the trailer bounced sideways into the kerb"
he managed to hit hte trailer that hard, he pushed it into the curb:speechles
what a night thow
left work at 5:15 ish, went the normal way through the industrial estate where we work, down the main road. im following a heavy load lorry, one used for carrying the big caterpillar diggers. behind me is a brand new citreon C somthing.
coming to the end of the road, a fiat brava has coming screaming around the bend, in a 30mph zone. he starts to loose it, then sideswipes the lorrys trailer infront of me, i get showered in glass bits of body work, lights, wing mirror. first thought "you complete tugger, i just washed and polished this, this weekend." about to stop turn the car around when i hear the big CRASH!
he side swiped the lorry missed me, i dont know how he could i was in a jag. he hit the citreon that was following me, and i mean hit them.
the citreon went from at a guess 20mph with brakes on going forwards, to a complete stop, to being catapulted backwards, to the other side of the road backwards into a tree.
get out the car running down the road, already calling 999, i was the first to ring and it took 15minutes to get them to know where i was and get patched through to all the emergency services.
looked around people everywhere checking everyone in the cars involved, me and another lorry driver start shouting at everyone to get there cars out the way so the emergency crews can get through. go check oneveryone, move my car to a sensible position in the road. the driver of the fiat has got up, got out the car and started to peg it/Grrr /Grrr he gets caught anyway,
were all stood there then, someone realises that in the fiat, theres a girl in the passenger, footwell, we didnt see her in there, wasnt wearing her belt, and slid under the dash, and crushed in.
let the emergency crews do there work, gave my details down, took up chain smoking with the lorry driver involved in the incident lol
then went up checked his lorry was ok. exchanged details as a just incase.
everyone left then, i spoke to an officer about insurance claims, took him half hour to come back to me. but the armed response unit guy and the traffic collision investigator were top notch blokes:2thumbsup
the armed response guy explained what is happening to me. then the traffic guy took pictures of my car, covered in glass, and all the marks chips and scratches that werent on there before. made sure i wasnt needed to give any more info
the run down of it is.
driver of the brava-pissed out of his skull, couldnt stand up:speechles he gave false details all the time, nor could he care about the girl in his footwell, who wasnt looking good, she had a fast police escort to hospital i hope she is ok and the elderly couple in the citreon
i feel really bad thow, i was the only one who came out relativly unscathed. and the people that didnt witness anything made me really mad.
firstly i turned around noticed the phones out, all taking pictures.
then they started shouting about how the lorry driver involved had just left the scene, if they took 30 seconds to move off the pavement and look right they would see his lorry parked up infront of my jag, if they had looked left they would of seen him, helping out.
also had to break the bad news to my brother about all the scratches on his jag.
ive got to go make a formal statement soon, which ive got no issues with, that guy needs to be locked up, and the key misplaced.
traffic officer has pics of my car to back my claim up against the drunk, and said the least i would get out of it, was a respray. but thats not really important, id rather see that everyones all right, metal can be replaced, life cant.
and me the lorry driver and the guy walking his dog spent about 10 minutes going through the "ifs" and "buts"
if i had left later, would that accident happen?
if it was 10 seconds earlier the guy walking his dog would of been killed
what if it was a child
what if the lorry wasnt there?
we all decided the lorry trailer saved our lifes
and just so you can work out how fast this guy was going. the lorry trailer, is the heavy duty one for the caterpillar diggers, i asked the lorry driver "did you feel anything in that ?" he said "yes the trailer bounced sideways into the kerb"
he managed to hit hte trailer that hard, he pushed it into the curb:speechles
what a night thow