So, I've REALLY got something to moan about now (I know it's been a while).
A couple of nights ago, I heard three bangs and a skid outside my house. My wife and I ran downstairs to see what had happened, but there didn't seem to be any commotion. Fast forward to twenty minutes later and a bunch of people knocking on the door. I was told to look at my car and I nearly screamed; my wife ran back indoors crying. The whole of the driver side had a great big dent in it! From the front wing all the way to the back door.
The story was that this bastard in a VW Passat came speeding down the wet road sideways (yes, sideways) and rammed my Peugeot 206. He then bounced off, tried to turn around and crashed his back end into a Ford Mondeo just up the road. He hit the other car so hard it half ended up on the pavement with one of its back wheel at 45 degrees!
I've given up with the insurance. My car has a street value of £650, but I have an excess of £650. You can see where this is going. I went to the repair place and they said it would be a sniff under £3000 to repair. Thanks to my mum, I'm going for the repair, but that's only because the car is so good and I really don't want to see the back of it. I can't see the point of blowing the No Claims Bonus.
I bought my car out of our shared savings two years ago. I haven't driven it as much as I would have liked and most of the time it has sat outside the house. Our savings have dwindled for various reasons and I am about to use the last of them for the car. I seriously hope nothing else goes wrong. The only joy I have is that the police have chosen to investigate and if the bloke who owned the Passat cannot prove he wasn't driving his car, the police are going to prosecute him. I'm just so glad there weren't any cars coming the other way or pedestrians crossing the road, because they wouldn't have stood a chance.
Still doesn't stop me from feeling numb though.
