Travelling around southern Kent today and late this afternoon as I approached a junction on my right, I saw and heard a police car coming out of the "wrong side" of the junction passing other cars also exiting the same junction. Stopped successfully to let them out, and a few moments later, bang! An idiot behind me decided to stop on my nearside rear wing, taking out the light cluster and creasing the wing itself!!!
My 5 year old grandson was asleep but thank God well secured in his car seat, but on the side of the impact, so has ended up being taken to hospital complaining that his neck hurts
The police saw everything, and as they were indirectly involved in the collision as the reason why I stopped, we ended up with their Sergeant (who I know) coming out to the scene to take statements, undertake breath tests of all parties involved, including their officers (standard procedure), and provide me with police insurance details along with the names and numbers of the PC's involved. At one stage we had four police cars at the scene and an ambulance, at a junction renowned for a bad crash a few years ago involving a police car on a treble 9 call that killed a young mother at eleven o'clock at night!
The AA are sorting everything out in terms of the insurance company claim and repairs, the loan car, any medical assistence we may need, but I am more concerned about the five year old. I could only drive my car directly to my home due to the legal condition of my car missing a lens cover, so I am awaiting his mother letting me know what the hospital have said.
Why can't people stop without hitting others! My first and before this last RTC was back in 1979 when a prat in a Granada used the rear of my Cortina Estate, that was stationery, to stop!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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