Premonition?

[toastboy]

Over the past few weeks I've been looking at M3s to replace my 330ci and thought I found a suitable one not long ago. For reasons detailed in the Mpower section I decided not to go through with the deal.

It was just as well as I was woken at 3am on Sat morning with my car alarm going off. I went outside and found this.




Yes, some unknown gibbon has decided to mate his car with mine and then leave it like that with the windows down, the airbag deployed, the radio and the heater going, his keys still in the ignition and his mobile phone sitting on the dashboard. One of my neighbours said he saw a guy staggering off down the road. The police were called but they now won't tell me whether the guy was caught or not.

Something was telling me that it wasn't the right time to get a new car, now I know why.

[bob1179]

That is absolute shite mate. What have the insurance bods said about it all? Have the police said anything constructive?

Good luck on getting it all sorted out.

[CommanderJameson]

You've got his phone?

Excellent.

Ring his mum and tell her that her car's knacked.

ETA: Bloody rotten luck. Hope you get the scrote.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Tuesday 17th April 13:07

[toastboy]

My neighbour said he looked in his mid fifties. He's probably been drink driving for years. I hope this time it's his 3rd offence and this time he'll get banged up for it.

I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.

[CommanderJameson]

toastboy said:

My neighbour said he looked in his mid fifties. He's probably been drink driving for years. I hope this time it's his 3rd offence and this time he'll get banged up for it.

I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.

All that will happen is that you'll have drivers slowing and accelerating, making more noise, people like me in big cars ignoring the speed humps altogether and some people beeping their horn at every hump, just to remind you what a joke the phrase "traffic calming" really is.

Further, if this bloke's a pisshead, what would you have achieved? He'd have crashed into your car, traffic calming measures or no.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Tuesday 17th April 13:23

[toastboy]

CommanderJameson said:

toastboy said:

My neighbour said he looked in his mid fifties. He's probably been drink driving for years. I hope this time it's his 3rd offence and this time he'll get banged up for it.

I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.

All that will happen is that you'll have drivers slowing and accelerating, making more noise, people like me in big cars ignoring the speed humps altogether and some people beeping their horn at every hump, just to remind you what a joke the phrase "traffic calming" really is.

Further, if this bloke's a pisshead, what would you have achieved? He'd have crashed into your car, traffic calming measures or no.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Tuesday 17th April 13:23

True, maybe road humps are not the answer. The chicane style measure they have locally might work better as people seem to hit them rather than the parked cars. I'd like to hear any suggestions before I get in touch with the council.

[CommanderJameson]

toastboy said:

CommanderJameson said:

toastboy said:

My neighbour said he looked in his mid fifties. He's probably been drink driving for years. I hope this time it's his 3rd offence and this time he'll get banged up for it.

I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.

All that will happen is that you'll have drivers slowing and accelerating, making more noise, people like me in big cars ignoring the speed humps altogether and some people beeping their horn at every hump, just to remind you what a joke the phrase "traffic calming" really is.

Further, if this bloke's a pisshead, what would you have achieved? He'd have crashed into your car, traffic calming measures or no.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Tuesday 17th April 13:23

True, maybe road humps are not the answer. The chicane style measure they have locally might work better as people seem to hit them rather than the parked cars. I'd like to hear any suggestions before I get in touch with the council.

Suggestion? Nothing.

No traffic calming measure could have prevented your car being hit. People won't avoid "rat runs" just because there's chicanes or humps or whatnot.

If you want to increase the amount of noise and pollution on your street, traffic calming measures are a marvellous way of doing that. They won't stop J. Random Pisshead driving into your car, though.

Best of luck catching JRP, though. Hope they nail his arse to the wall.

[ean218]

toastboy said:

Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.

You're a hypocrite. Speed humps will not slow down a pissed up, out of control drunk driver. I also wonder why he would have hit one of your neighbours children rather than your car. Are they in the habit of wandering about in the road at night?

[Wiggy001]

Maybe a speed camera would have prevented this?! [/tongueincheek]

If you want to ask for anything to stop this happening again, ask for more Trafpol.

Sorry to hear about the damage though - hope it gets sorted quickly.

[^iain^]

Soz to see/hear that, there are millions of nobs like this guy around all the time. Upside at least it wasn't the new one, downside going to have a repaired motor now they are never quite the same


The speed bumps won't help with this, they will just go over them at a funny angle get all out shape and same result IMHO

Edited by ^Iain330^ on Wednesday 18th April 14:59

[RaksP]

i take it the guy legged it because now he cant get done for drink driving? what punishment is greater leaving the scene of an accident or drink driving?

[drgav2005]

Toastboy, sorry to hear about the accident. As previous post have said, I hope they nail the muppet to the wall, give him a large fine and take his driving licence away.

Hope the insurance bods settle up soon... and then you can start looking for an M3 again