Emmenay
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- Dec 11, 2011
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To cut a long story short, a few weeks ago I bought a newish ford ka to use as a toad, the wife was out in it when we had the short bursts of snow a couple of weeks ago and it got heavily damaged due to being shunted from behind.
The third party is now claiming it was my wifes fault, and although its not a straight forward accident i would love to throw her statement to the lions so to speak to see if it will hold water. The following is a true and accurate account, any constructive comments welcome;
I exited the eastbound A13 at the Pitsea/A132 exit. The exit slip road has a blind crest at the beginning of it due to it starting on the incline of a flyover. On this occasion it was dark and snowing heavily so, combining the different signs indicating ‘ice’ and ‘queues likely’, and my responsible driving, my speed was much slower than the permitted limit of 50mph. As soon as I reached the crest I realised that the slip road was much more snow covered than the main road. Also there was stationary traffic in front of me in single file instead of the two lanes that are usually available. On braking, my car became unstable due to ice but I managed to control it, avoiding hitting the queue of cars that were there. When I came to a stop I was still pointing roughly in the right direction, and my position in the road was still in the file of traffic but the road was well covered in snow thus hiding the markings.
I had literally just stopped when the third party’s car, already way out of control, hit the rear of mine very heavily causing him damage to his nearside doors.
I put it to the third party that he was travelling too fast for the conditions and his reply was “yeh but you almost lost it as well” My response was “I know but at least I controlled it and didn’t hit anything”.
In my opinion the third party was travelling way too fast for the adverse weather conditions when he got to the crest, and panicked when he realised the traffic was stopped halfway up the slip road.
What do you guys think? :Sad:
The third party is now claiming it was my wifes fault, and although its not a straight forward accident i would love to throw her statement to the lions so to speak to see if it will hold water. The following is a true and accurate account, any constructive comments welcome;
I exited the eastbound A13 at the Pitsea/A132 exit. The exit slip road has a blind crest at the beginning of it due to it starting on the incline of a flyover. On this occasion it was dark and snowing heavily so, combining the different signs indicating ‘ice’ and ‘queues likely’, and my responsible driving, my speed was much slower than the permitted limit of 50mph. As soon as I reached the crest I realised that the slip road was much more snow covered than the main road. Also there was stationary traffic in front of me in single file instead of the two lanes that are usually available. On braking, my car became unstable due to ice but I managed to control it, avoiding hitting the queue of cars that were there. When I came to a stop I was still pointing roughly in the right direction, and my position in the road was still in the file of traffic but the road was well covered in snow thus hiding the markings.
I had literally just stopped when the third party’s car, already way out of control, hit the rear of mine very heavily causing him damage to his nearside doors.
I put it to the third party that he was travelling too fast for the conditions and his reply was “yeh but you almost lost it as well” My response was “I know but at least I controlled it and didn’t hit anything”.
In my opinion the third party was travelling way too fast for the adverse weather conditions when he got to the crest, and panicked when he realised the traffic was stopped halfway up the slip road.
What do you guys think? :Sad: