Coming home from work tonight and some scroat in a council wagon two cars in front decides to 'go for max' down one of the hills on the route ! Shame he'd just been carrying road chippings and the debris /chippings flew off and hit his four rear tandem wheels and sent it out like a shot blaster ! I was two cars behind with a work collegue in front and I dread to think about the damage to his vehicle.I was approx 40-60 yards behind and he has destroyed :-
Roof paint
Front windscreen
2 x side mirrors
Bonnet totally peppered
2 X leading edges of front wings peppered
2 x headlights
2x indicators
2 x front fog lights
1 x front grille
1 x front bumper
1 x front number plate !
Informed the police and gave them the vehicle details and reg number and explained that whilst waiting in traffic (I overtook him as I didn't want to follow him for 20+ miles home !)he would always wait 30+ yards behind me as he knew what he had done !
Anyway the Police are going to persue him for an insecure load and are classing it as a road traffic accident. I have also notified my insurers and they are sending an assessor around tomorrow ! All in all with the non starting issue and now this I'm having a genrally c p week
Oh... the wagon was a council Highways one so I pointed out also to the Police - have a look at his tacho for around 1700hrs and you will see what speed he was doing - definately not 55mph !

good for you!!! i hate idiots like this with no thought for their actions..  Current: TDV8 (3.6) RRS HSE



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I had a similar incident 20 years ago and lost out due to not knowing about getting details etc...this time I was fully prepared (didn't have a pen in the car so had to memorise the number plate all the way home !)

mercs600 wrote:

I had a similar incident 20 years ago and lost out due to not knowing about getting details etc...this time I was fully prepared (didn't have a pen in the car so had to memorise the number plate all the way home !)

If you have the phone/voice recognition you can hold down the voice button and speak "reccord note". V useful feature for when ideas come to you in the car! 

Council wagon probably doesn't have a tacho incidentally..

its times like this when you wish you had a dash cam recording everything in front of you..pictures/video are a strong form of evidence.. ... - .- -.




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Fortunately all vehicles with the exception of the post office and HM forces have to have a tacho so I'm ok on that score
There were 3 other vehicles damaged as well as mine from where I work and my insurance company told me today another driver followed him back to the depot and had a go at him ! As a consequence the council and their insurance company were well in the picture !!
Hopefully the insurance place will do a good job - I will have to inform them that there is more than one Land Rover Java Black ! - not many people know that When I had a rear door on my Defender sprayed they had to phone Land Rover with the chassis number to get the exact match - they originally thought Java Black was Java Black !

glad its getting sorted....

Yours like mine is getting on a bit so hopefully it come back better than before, all the old stone chips etc gone 2004 black Vogue TD6

scarey wrote:

its times like this when you wish you had a dash cam recording everything in front of you..pictures/video are a strong form of evidence..

Dash cam's, whilst not evidenciary, are still a good thing to have. I use one a lot. Amazing how interested the police get when you tell them about it. A picture is still worth a thousand words.

you would have to be pretty clever to edit a video and if the 'case' got serious i'm sure the video forensics could determine tampering..