Oops. Minor bump in the Octy

So the roads around here have been pretty grim for the last few days, the M8 reopened this afternoon after being closed between J1 and J5 for 48 hours.

My partner was driving my Octy yesterday and was driving within the conditions (dry, but a lot of snow at the sides of the road and about -9C). He spotted a taxi stopped ahead waiting to pull a u-turn but not quite in the usual position because of build up of snow in the middle of the road. He was only doing about 20 in 3rd and a fair distance back, came off the throttle, down to 2nd, needed to get off a little more speed, braked, hit a patch of ice and the car slid off to the right. Fortunately it got a bit of traction when the front O/S wheel hit the snow and he was able to get a little more speed down but the car hit the ice again and slid, slow-motion style back towards the nearside kerb and the front o/s corner of my car clipped the rear n/s of the taxi at about 5mph. The car carried on sliding ever so slowly to the near side where it embedded itself into a large pile of snow. The taxi (a Fiat Doblo) has a crack in the n/s section of his rear bumper. Details were duly exchanged and the taxi buggered off, leaving my partner to try and un-beach my car. It took him an hour, and the assistance of two policemen who were walking past (eventually) to dig the car out.

Apart from a very small bit of damage to the front bumper and a buggered fog light my car seems fine. It seems to drive OK, there doesn't seem to be any wonky panel gaps, the headlight unit and headlight washer seem fine and it doesn't seem to have lost any vital fluids

Anyhow, he phoned eSure, reported it and they have been on the ball as ever, the car is being picked up by John Martin Group Accident Repair Centre on Friday and they will leave a courtesy car (probably a biscuit tin on wheels) for assessment and potentially repair if they can get everything together quickly enough in this weather.

I've attached two pics of my bumper to show just how minor it was, but I've noticed that the plastic that the o/s foglight screws onto is cracked - do you reckon that it'll probably be a replacement bumper job or will they plastic-weld it? Had the front bumper on my last car (Mazda6) repaired last winter after I clipped something while trying to avoid someone else trying to avoid an accident and it was a very good job. Apart from the damage to the foglight, the bumper and the plastic trim that covers the towing eye doodah, is there anything else I should be watching out for? Would it be worth my while nicking the car up to the local decent tyre place and getting the tracking and alignment checked out or would eSure/JMARC do it if asked? Don't think the car quite made it to the kerb because of the volume of snow banked up.

Anyhow, my partner is fine, the car seems fine apart from a wee cosmetic blemish. My premium will go up next year no doubt in spite of paying for NCD protection and I've got £150 excess to fork out on satisfactory completion of the repair. Could have been worse given the state of the roads round here and some of the prangs/bumps/wrecks I've seen while walking to and from work for the last week and a half!