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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: DaveN on 20 August 2008, 16:36
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Last night on the way home from work with my 10 month old daughter in the back, while stopped at some lights 800 meters from my house, I was run into by a drunk, uninsured polish bloke at 6pm in the evening.
The back of the car is quite messed up though the important thing is we are fine, if a little sore.
The point is "seat belts" wear them, buckle your kids in and keep them safe. The car is up in a dealer getting accessed so I'm not sure what the story is yet.
The fecking seat belt restraints that explode to pull the seat belt works and may have prevented so injury, the next few days will tell the tale, our cars are good at protecting us well worth the premium.
Happy though I am that we are okay the fecking hassle now in sorting a repair or possibly a write off really pisses me off. Our Eastern European brothers/sisters need to cop and get over their drink driving culture.
Stay safe.
Dave N
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Sorry to hear about that Dave, but glad your all ok! :wink:
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Glad you are OK and it is something that everyone should - put your seatbelt on EVERYTIME you are in the car as all it takes is one drunk idiot to smash into you and you could be very seriously hurt.
Hope you get it sorted out quickly.
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glad u are OK and your family,
stupid f000kin polish c"nt, cant stand em :angry: :angry:
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glad your all ok. thats the main thing. i never understood people that drink drive
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Loads of eastern europeons round my way driving clapped out motors on polish numberplates,never have seat belts on,always overloaded,cars sh!te.
You cant tell me they have insurance!! and when something does happen its the old"me not understand english" act daft routine.FACT :angry:
Coppers never do nowt it pisses me off.But when i get caught doing 34 in a 30 i get 3 f**king points and a fine.
Sorry for the rant but thats how i feel.We spend thousands of our hard earned on something we are passonate about yet we get these arseholes running into us.
Hope you get sorted mate andhope your daughters fine :smiley:
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....This is a very worrying thread. Who the heck is Martha? I thought you were reporting the death of your daughter at first and am truly glad that's not so (having lost my child son).
The other worrying thing is the Nazi type of remarks about Polish people - They aren't all as described in this thread.
Anyone who drink drives or has no insurance deserves the fullest weight of the law, whether Polish, Pakistani, or English.
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Ahh man sorry to hear it! I have nightmares that when mine arrives in 3/4 weeks something is going to happen to it!
On a lighter note, Martha is a brilliant name for your car! I need to come up with a worthy name!
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Sorry to hear this, all so common nowadays though - people with no insurance! The annoying thing is its us legitimate people that end up paying for it.
Driving without insurance = scum.
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RedRobin
I am sorry for any offence that may have been felt, I also 100% agree that all Polish are not criminals, I have a couple of Polish friends.
This thread is not supposed to be a racist attack and if it is can the Moderators lock it off.
Keep safe wear a belt.
Dave N
PS Martha is after Martha from Dr Who, black, smart and very sexy. My GTi is a Black DSG with sat nav
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Yeah yeah... Not all Polish are the same... yak yak yak :rolleyes:
Probably not but they all have a severe lack of respect for OUR laws
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Yeah yeah... Not all Polish are the same... yak yak yak :rolleyes:
Probably not but they all have a severe lack of respect for OUR laws
....You're displaying such ignorance. But that's your intelligent opinion, so each to their own. :cool:
Example - My Polish neighbours are more law abiding than I am.
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RedRobin
I am sorry for any offence that may have been felt, I also 100% agree that all Polish are not criminals, I have a couple of Polish friends.
This thread is not supposed to be a racist attack and if it is can the Moderators lock it off.
Keep safe wear a belt.
Dave N
PS Martha is after Martha from Dr Who, black, smart and very sexy. My GTi is a Black DSG with sat nav
....No problem and thanks for your explanation. I'm truly glad that your family are okay and hope that lovely black chick Martha will be restored soon.
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....This is a very worrying thread. Who the heck is Martha? I thought you were reporting the death of your daughter at first and am truly glad that's not so (having lost my child son).
The other worrying thing is the Nazi type of remarks about Polish people - They aren't all as described in this thread.
Anyone who drink drives or has no insurance deserves the fullest weight of the law, whether Polish, Pakistani, or English.
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Well said Red could not agree with you more every drink driver iv'e seen leaving the pub over the year's have been british,our town centre's are a gisgrace of a weekend i get embarassed :embarassed: being english when i see people abusing foreign people working in food outlet's it makes me cringe .
Us brits need to take a good look around and see thing's how they really are. :angry: IMHO
By the way glad to here your children and you got away un-injured DaveN, hope your Martha get's better quickly. :smiley:
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as everyone else glad to hear all ok!
....a little concerned with the name Martha though! :laugh:
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as everyone else glad to hear all ok!
....a little concerned with the name Martha though! :laugh:
....So was I until Dave gave the reason. Then I checked her out. So just to keep Phil(Mcavity) on his toes : -
(http://martha.drowned-world.net/img/001.jpg)(http://www.watchingdrwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/freema1.jpg)
:evil: ^She scrubs up details well though^
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as everyone else glad to hear all ok!
....a little concerned with the name Martha though! :laugh:
....So was I until Dave gave the reason. Then I checked her out. So just to keep Phil(Mcavity) on his toes : -
(http://martha.drowned-world.net/img/001.jpg)(http://www.watchingdrwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/freema1.jpg)
:evil: ^She scrubs up details well though^
Damn!! she is hot......Martha it is then! ha ha!
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Damn!! she is hot......Martha it is then! ha ha!
....Isn't she just! :drool:
(http://i31.tinypic.com/5ahxcj.jpg)
^She can come and play with the cogs in my DSG box anytime!!^
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Sorry to hear about your car Dave :cry:
Glad to hear that both yourself and the littlun are okay :cool:
I abhor any kind of drink driving and even more so people who aren't insured :angry:
Hope you get the result you want. :smiley:
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....That's the great thing about APNR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) - It's extremely effective in homing in on uninsured cars.
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glad to hear you are both ok, gutted for martha though!
Excuse my ignorance, but what actually happens when you are hit by an uninsured driver? Are you completely liable for the costs?
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Not so good mate but,cars can be replaced.So long as everyone in your car is ok then its not all doom and gloom.
Excuse my ignorance, but what actually happens when you are hit by an uninsured driver? Are you completely liable for the costs?
I believe in that sort of case your own insurance does foot the bill but,the BIB gets involved?
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....DirectLine have been recently advertising insurance which takes account of a non-insured party.
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Lads
The story here in Ireland is there is a thing called the "Uninsured Drivers Bord", they cover cases where the party at fault has no insurance.
I just deal with my company and they get the money from the UDB.
Just been up to see Martha, her bum is not as curvy as it should be more of a crumple. The chassis is okay but the sub-frame is damaged and the drivers side rear wishbone is pushed and a kink in the rear quarter panel so its a wait and see.
What are peoples opinion on taking back repaired cars, I'm a bit concerned about it seeing as the pre-tensioners went off so I was hit hard. Suppose I'll just have to see what they say in the accessment.
Thanks for all the comments, hopefully Martha will be back to her gorgeous self soon.
Dave N
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Glad everyone is ok but gutted for you and your car.
The same thing happened to my friends mother on the M50 last year. She was rear ended by a Polish lad with no insurance. He hit her so hard the car had to be written off. It was all sorted out through the MIBI. I have no problem whatsoever with Polish people or anyone else for that matter, but some of our Eastern European friends need to abide by the laws of the country they are living in, and it just seems that they are involved in a disproportionate number of accidents, all too often with no insurance. Their drink-driving culture is also a worrying trend.
As DaveN said, they do need to cop on to themselves.
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Sorry to hear that Dave, but glad you’re both ok.
Had a similar experience myself when a driver pulled out on me and my brother and hit us head-on writing both cars off a few years back. We also bounced off 2 other cars in the street and luckily the neighbors called the police who attended and took statements. It turned out that the driver gave a false name and after further investigation turned out to be uninsured and had no license. The driver then said that it wasn't him driving and that someone else had taken his car. It went to court and a member of the Motor Insurance Bureau attended court on each occasion, The driver even had his wife (with bay in arms: sympathy vote) stand up in court to say he was with her at the time of the accident as she was sick in bed. Luckily though the Police that attended the accident acted as our witnesses and we were we all able to ID him as the driver. Luckily we were paid out but it took over 12months and several court appearances and lost time from work (and tax payer’s money…don’t get me started!!). If we hadn't had the Police as witnesses we probably wouldn't have had such a strong case.
Also just the other week I witnessed an accident between 2 cars at a cross roads. Straight after the accident the driver and passenger of the car at fault jumped out and swapped places, the passenger then proceeded to pretend he was driving. He was obviously giving his very young looking girl friend a driving lesson without insurance. I volunteered to be a witness for the very shaken victim and also took photos of the car and 'driver' of the other car incase 'complications' arose. I asked the guy for some ID and he showed me several credit cards with the name on which matched the details he gave the victim. I told her that he wasn’t the driver but we both agreed that is was probably best to keep quiet as it would only complicate things a hinder her getting the car fixed. Whether that was the ‘right’ thing to do is another matter but it seems that she is getting paid out.
So a tip, if you are involved in an accident, ask for proof of ID and as many forms of it as possible, if they don't have any, call the Police and suggest that you think there is a problem and have them attend before the driver leaves. Also whip out your camera phone and take as many pics as possible including the driver. It will all help prove your side of the story.