Car got hit on the way to work this morning
Basically two lanes approaching a set of lights. The Right hand lane is a dedicated right hand turn only, the left lane for straight through. Followed an 07 plate Toyota Yaris towards the lights which were on green at the time. The Yaris moved into the right lane to turn right and I carried on in the left hand lane. I'd almost overtaken them when they decided they were in the wrong lane and pulled the car over to my lane without looking, where the car still was, and bang, they hit my rear offside.
Furious at the time as it was such a dick move, but when the driver got out, it was a little old lady, visibly shocked and upset, and apologising saying it was all her fault, she was running late and wasn't paying enough attention. TBH my anger completely dissipated when i saw her. I asked if she was OK and not injured (which nether of us were as it was pretty low speed - 20mph ish), and I actually ended up feeling sorry for her.
Luckily (if you can call it lucky), she just scraped my nearside rear wheel (making a bit of a mess of the previously mint diamond cut finish) and scraping the paint off the rear edge of the bumper. thankfully she missed the metal bodywork so the rear arch etc has escaped untouched. That's 2 accidents now exactly 5 years apart where I've been the innocent party. Bet my insurance goes up (even though it's a protected NCB), and wasn't my fault, as the insurers will use any excuse to put your premiums up.
Well my mint GTI s current not mint anymore (at least not at the moment). I know it's not the end of the world and it could have been much worse, and I guess the damage is pretty minimal to be honest and at least the car is still driveable.
You can still still the blue paint from the Yaris on the images below
