So there was my family and I heading along the road in a 30mph zone with tin tent on back (you can't miss it!):

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You have to chase it up, otherwise you will lay in bed at night thinking about it... Worth the hassle.

Good luck if you do.

Sorry to hear of your hassle Specman....

Report them & get it sorted....

lucky you had the tin tent or you could be the next one !

Specman, hope it isn't too late but when I had an incident with a tanker lorry and reported it to the police I was advised by them to also report the incident to the fleet manager for the company involved. Apparently it is an offence for a truck driver not to report to his manager that he has been involved in an incident, regardless of how small it might be and the driver will be hauled over the coals if he hasn't reported it and could be dismissed.
Result for me was not only a call back from the fleet manager but also one from the MD of the company who was also a customer at the local LR dealers and also ran an RRSport although his was an S/C not a 2.7SE! Upshot was that I was told to submit the final bill for repairs to the MD (I wasn't claiming on my insurance) and they would refund the cost of parts and repainting.................. when I did I was very surprised to get a letter back saying that they company had decided that as I hadn't lost my rag, i had been reasonable with them and dealt with everything myself they would refund the entire cost of the repairs and enclosed a cheque for the full amount with the letter. Well done Snowie, the company involved. I have never heard what happened to the lorry driver........... but I do know that he hadn't informed his manager when he returned to the depot as the manager was surprised that he hadn't had a report within 12 hours of the incident and my call to him was the first he had heard that one of his trucks had nearly taken the entire side off my RRS with it's trailer wheels 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

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Tim in Scotland wrote:

Specman, hope it isn't too late but when I had an incident with a tanker lorry and reported it to the police I was advised by them to also report the incident to the fleet manager for the company involved. Apparently it is an offence for a truck driver not to report to his manager that he has been involved in an incident, regardless of how small it might be and the driver will be hauled over the coals if he hasn't reported it and could be dismissed.
Result for me was not only a call back from the fleet manager but also one from the MD of the company who was also a customer at the local LR dealers and also ran an RRSport although his was an S/C not a 2.7SE! Upshot was that I was told to submit the final bill for repairs to the MD (I wasn't claiming on my insurance) and they would refund the cost of parts and repainting.................. when I did I was very surprised to get a letter back saying that they company had decided that as I hadn't lost my rag, i had been reasonable with them and dealt with everything myself they would refund the entire cost of the repairs and enclosed a cheque for the full amount with the letter. Well done Snowie, the company involved. I have never heard what happened to the lorry driver...........

He was last seen being thrown down a septic tank somewhere in the Stirling area....Snowie's take pride in their punishment policy!!!

Thanks all & Tim - I typed up a report and emailed it into Debenhams HQ last night and I have got acknowledgement today that it is being looked at.
Took the same report to the local Plod and they have photocopied it for submission to the Traffic Dept.
Notified my insurers, not as a claim at this stage, purely notification of a lost extended mirror and abused FFRR folding mirror.

I had a good look at the car and van looking for signs of me going "off-road" to avoid collision and could not find any. Bing maps have shown me how I did leave my lane without mounting the kerb - there are slip roads into and out of Western General Hospital which have been handily placed. Clicky aerial view
In fact you can see clearly the pedestrian island which the guy was swerving to avoid which made him leave his lane.
Banged to rights, just got to make it stick, thats the problem!