jeallen01
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Click & Collect at TESCO yesterday.
Pulled up about 6ft behind a Merc "SUV" waiting to enter one of the C&C bays on our Right.
15s later the Merc suddenly backed up and hit the front of the Skoda about 2s after that - I had started to blow the horn but it was too late
No issue as to who was to blame and the driver - the husband - immediately admitted "liability".
The damage to my car was limited to a cracked number plate and a very tiny crack around one of the bolts that secure the front spoiler/bumper to the metalwork (and no marks on the rear bumper of the Merc) . It's an old (2007) car and I couldn't be arsed to go down the insurance route - so I "let him off" for 25 quid for a new plate (just picked that up from Halfords) and I think if I loosen that bolt and carefully retighten it then the crack will close up "naturally".
Later, I had to go back to TESCO because a crate of shopping had "slipped through the crack" in their pre-collection preparations - and the guy there (who I've got to know quite well over the last few months), and who saw what had happened, told me that he that had asked the husband why he backed up like he did.
The story appears to have been that the wife had seen a parking place behind and to the Left of their car and told him to back into it - so he said to the TESCO guy "I did what my wife told me!" and without looking in his mirrors or behind him!
Pulled up about 6ft behind a Merc "SUV" waiting to enter one of the C&C bays on our Right.
15s later the Merc suddenly backed up and hit the front of the Skoda about 2s after that - I had started to blow the horn but it was too late
No issue as to who was to blame and the driver - the husband - immediately admitted "liability".The damage to my car was limited to a cracked number plate and a very tiny crack around one of the bolts that secure the front spoiler/bumper to the metalwork (and no marks on the rear bumper of the Merc) . It's an old (2007) car and I couldn't be arsed to go down the insurance route - so I "let him off" for 25 quid for a new plate (just picked that up from Halfords) and I think if I loosen that bolt and carefully retighten it then the crack will close up "naturally".
Later, I had to go back to TESCO because a crate of shopping had "slipped through the crack" in their pre-collection preparations - and the guy there (who I've got to know quite well over the last few months), and who saw what had happened, told me that he that had asked the husband why he backed up like he did.
The story appears to have been that the wife had seen a parking place behind and to the Left of their car and told him to back into it - so he said to the TESCO guy "I did what my wife told me!" and without looking in his mirrors or behind him!
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