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Crash question
- Thread starter Steveball
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MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
If that's cosmetic only I'd say 10-15 tops.
I had someone drive into the back of my Fiesta at 25 and it creased the boot floor massively and pulled the boot lid in as well.
That doesn't look too bad from the pictures.
I had someone drive into the back of my Fiesta at 25 and it creased the boot floor massively and pulled the boot lid in as well.
That doesn't look too bad from the pictures.
Yeah the bonnet, light and bumper of the other car got smashed.
MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
Modern car crumple zones are meant to go quite easily aren't they? I think 10-15 could do that easily, that's a lot of energy to dissipate.
Yeah it’s the tears in the bumper which worried me. Also the number plate screw was ripped sidewards through the plate, before the plate was ripped off.
They're both black.
Were you not there ?
Why are you asking us to guess...?
Were you not there ?
Why are you asking us to guess...?
I was there, I was in the Grey golf.
I was just wondering what people’s opinions were on the speed involved to do that damage.
In a nutshell yes, I was just putting the car into drive.
The lady did state she was looking at spaces available in the next row but it’s my word against hers. I am awaiting the outcome as Sainsbury’s have kept a recording of the CCTV - which my insurance dismissed until I said I want you to review it.
Automatic so foot was on the brake as I was preparing to move forward. I had already reversed out of the space.
If you see she hasn’t hit the rear 1/4 it’s the corner/middle of the bumper.
Like I said it’s not a whose to blame it was how fast do you think she was going to cause the damage.
I had an idiot neighbour come steaming round a blind corner and nearly take my front end off in a car park - I was doing under 1mph as I was creeping forward, he was going too fast to stop in the distance he could see to be clear.
Who was at fault in the eyes of the insurer?
Me, because the end of a car parking space should be treated as a Give Way line (apparently).
My damage was a £30 replacement indicator. His damage was over £3k thanks to a written off vehicle because the doors were pushed in and he tried it on with whiplash (t**t).
Where you stand WRT being stationery in the running lane while about to set off, rather than being half out of the space, I don't know.
I think the CCTV will be key.
That’s my issue, I was 98% through the manoeuvre but I think it will be 100% my fault as my insurance didn’t seem interested in what happened.
The reason I ask about the speed is they said it’s hard to tell if she was going over 5 mph just from the damage.
Sorry for not quoting you!
It was something the insurance said that bugged me and without the facts I wanted people to give an unbiased opinion on a situation.
Tell them to send an damage assessor to look at the cars and guess the speed as that's more their job than yours.
f**king insurance companies are corrupt as f**k.
