f*cking f*ck f*ck f*cking f*ckity f*ck f*ck f*ck.

[Sundance]

ROFL nice one steve

[gung-hoeddie]

now if he were to be sacrificed be being bleed to death then sent to the fires of hell that would be better.

That's just made me chuckle! Harsh, but fair in the circumstances.

On a slightly connected note (i.e the bleeding bit) I've just been having to deal with a 'complaint' letter where the client complained that "when she got letters from us she got so stressed that she bled from the vagina", amongst other complaints. It was apparently our fault.

My colleague seemed to miss the joke when I asked if she only sent letters out every four weeks....

yes vagina stress gush a very common complaint among the opposite sex and ODB.

[the enemy muton]

A lorry is a truck. An articulated lorry is a truck and trailer (18-wheeler). About 40 tonnes. I'll let somebody else field the question of wanking, though...

Yeah, the NHS walk-in centre in Loughborough was a doctor, thanks everyone. I will report it to my regular GP as well though.

My mother's insurance company are aggressively trying to make her say that the accident was knock-for-knock, ie 50/50 liability. Like I reversed into him or something.

To be blunt here, Baron, that's total bollocks - speaking as a former 'insurance professional', that is. An insurance company would have to try pretty damn hard to put the blame on you when someone drives into the back of you. As you quite rightly say, you would have to have been reversing (and at speed too) for this to be your fault, and even then it wouldn't be an open and shut case. Basically if a moving vehicle hits you no matter what you are doing - it is usually their fault for not paying due care and attention. You are quite right to be fighting this one!

By bizarre coincidence, my very first car met the same fate; I was sat at the roundabout at the end of my road when some dizzy bint ploughed straight into the back of me and shot me out into two lanes of traffic - even send the stereo flying over the centre column!

Dizzy Bint: "I'm so sorry, I don't know what happened. I looked left and right then drove straight into you."

Me: "Um, maybe you should try looking forwards next time ...?'

Anyway, the assessor at the time told me exactly what I said above (in my case the insurers didn't even contest it).

[Thundershot]

If the guy hit you its his fault.. even, just for example (as happened to me once), if you were forced to make an emergency stop & the vehicle behind you doesn't stop in time, tail ending you ,it's thier liability as they weren't paying enough attention to the road ahead.

[Red Laser]

now if he were to be sacrificed be being bleed to death then sent to the fires of hell that would be better.

That's just made me chuckle! Harsh, but fair in the circumstances.

On a slightly connected note (i.e the bleeding bit) I've just been having to deal with a 'complaint' letter where the client complained that "when she got letters from us she got so stressed that she bled from the vagina", amongst other complaints. It was apparently our fault.

My colleague seemed to miss the joke when I asked if she only sent letters out every four weeks....

Has she not heard of tampons?

[the enemy muton]

If the guy hit you its his fault.. even, just for example (as happened to me once), if you were forced to make an emergency stop & the vehicle behind you doesn't stop in time, tail ending you ,it's thier liability as they weren't paying enough attention to the road ahead.

Exactly.

[tintinlostsnowy]

Good to hear you are ok Jim, Make sure you get/make a record of your visit to the hospital and doctor's too.
When the bus went into my truck about 5 years ago I felt fine and even carried on working for a few more hours but went to hosi afterwards and they gave me some sort of whiplash card, It didn't really affect me until the morning afterwards and it still comes and goes now (could be old age though )
Apparently it is a nerve in my neck but it bloomin feels like my shoulder, I was given physio by the other side and was paid out too although I don't really think the physio did much cop though as it is still giving me jip

[Norwegian_Red]

I know I'm still quite new to this forum, but I hope I can still express my shock and hope you are ok!

I did some damage to my back a few years ago, so I can apprecaite how much it hurts!

As everyone is swearing in this thread I feel I can share something.

Last year we had a 're-structure' in work, I won't go into detail, but it wasn't pleasent.

Anyway, during one bloke's leaving do a few of us come up with a rating system to categorise people in work and in general life, it has three categories and goes something like this:

You're ok. You're a twat. You're a c*nt.

Most people are ok. I leave you to decide which category this lorry driver fits in to...

[The Baron]

That has to be the greatest rating system on earth, N_R! My old man pointed out, the trucker was most probably looking at the roundabout for oncoming traffic instead of ahead. But yes, legally and logically there is no acceptable reason for rear-ending someone. You were either driving too close or not looking where you were going, simple as.

Yesterday was agony. My whole back felt like it had been compressed to the size of a postage stamp and I had a thumping headache that would not shift. Went to the doc and he tells me that in a case like this I'll have been flung forward and snapped back, which will have given me micro-tears in all of the muscles in my back. He's prescribed some heavy anti-inflammatories. The pain got worse as the day went on and in the end I had an early night.

I have a twinge right at the very top of my neck when I tilt my head back. I've had physio before for a shoulder injury, so I know what you mean about it feeling in the wrong place, tintin, so I'm not going to even try to self-diagnose. I didn't get any card though, nor do I have any written proof that I attended the NHS Walk-in Centre, which is a bit worrying.

My old bassist is now a copper and had this to say:

the insurance company will mark vehicle one up as FTS (fail to stop) & I would bear in mind that CCTV normally runs on a rotation so if there were any, it'd be gone by the time the company check. I doubt he'd stop because the plates didn't match - far more likely to be because A) he didn't have insurance, B) there were tachograph offences, C) He didn't want to admit liability or D) a combination of any / all the above. The Police will follow any leads but it may not go anywhere. Worringly you are most likely 3rd party so it may be that you don't get a pay out if the driver isn't traced

I'm relieved to say that my mother's no-claims in unaffected and that she is fully comp. I have to produce the MOT certificate within seven days of the crash, so when I'm there I shall try to find out if they caught the f*cker yet.

[gung-hoeddie]

lets hope they do.