Glad youre around to tell stories....sorry to hear about your accident!
(I should say "crash", as police are no longer allowed to say "accident"
here in NJ,
because it supposedly infringes on rights by implying culpability)
It could have been far worse if it was in the roadster.... not to
mention the moral damage...
I was in a crash last december when a driver floored it through an
intersection (trying to beat a red light) and ended up
going 70mph into the side of my car (vw corrado) The whole passenger
side was gone. The first thing that
that I realized besides the fact that I was Ok..... "phewww ... its not
the roadster!"
Sometimes you just have to feel a little "lucky", sit back and revel in it.
-ed
RoadsterGB@aol.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> An interesting journey home today, thankfully not in the roadster.
>
> An idiot in his lovely (now not so lovely) Cobra kit car thought he'd show me
> what he (and it) could do coming off a roundabout - what could he do? - well,
> he could lose the rear end in the wet, hit me broadside at 70mph, careering
> my brand new company car into the barrier, spinning his Cobra 270 degrees
> into the barrier on the other side - he could then admit liability, only to
> change his story when the police arrived - there were no witnesses and
> amazingly no skid marks (the traffic police can see how it happened but they
> need proof) . The garage's first estimate tonight is #6,000 damage ($9,000)
> to my car.
>
> Stretchered to hospital in an ambulance - neck brace, stitches to the head
> and bruising all over. Now it's left to the insurance - deep joy.
>
> The good news - it's only metal, it's company, and it looks like I'll be
> driving the roadster to work for a few weeks.
>
> The bad news - it was my son's birthday today and I missed it. Bummer.
>
> Thanks for reading this - I needed to vent it somewhere.
>
> Rob
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