Thankfully they came clean and was witnessed. Women in a VX Insignia estate reverses out of parking bay without looking and crunches fr offside bumper and light. Light amazingly hasn't shattered but has bent the lower fixing bracket; you know the welded to the chassis leg one! Not sure how easy it's going to be sorted; not sure you can bend straight as it has folds in it to add rigidity and you won't get them back out in situ

 

This is an unbent one on the nearside

 

And some deep scratches to the bumper down to plastic

 

 

Going to get a quote from local ChipsAway but think that it'll end up insurance job!

I rear ended someone once year ago at very low speed and bent things - my car cost £800 to fix.

It's that welded bracket that concerns me. The rest is minor and easy to fix. That I'm not sure about!

I'd go with insurance without any hesitation inasmuch as that will cover you for any damage that you didn't spot. Any other choice puts you and your wallet at risk.

 

Back in 1998 someone hit my old Vauxhall Carlton a glancing blow on the n/s rear corner and wrote the car off.

 

The car had 218,000 miles on the clock and was only worth around £500 at the time but I was offered the choice of either having it repaired or being paid £1900 for it as a write-off.

 

The decision took me 2 or 3 milliseconds, but it was still a surprise as inasmuch as the bump was so gentle and the damage seemed so slight.

Bummer, I had similar incidents just after we got ours..... It was driven into twice in the space of a week, once at night with a lady doing a U-turn clipping the front, and once at dusk with a woman backing into the rear in a carpark. Strangely, before we bought our car I noted that black cars are significantly more likely to not be seen on the road....

 

http://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/216475/muarc263.pdf

 

abbreviation here:

 

http://www.monash.edu.au/news/releases/show/1110

 

Luckily the DRL are always on, and when I am on the open road I always turn my headlights on, and no crashes so far.

That's a real pain! I agree with the insurance route. Always best as you never know what's lurking beneath modern cars. Many of us have experiences of a seemingly minor dent or scratch involving more than we anticipated. Hope you get it sorted without too much fuss. At least they had the decency to admit it!

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A few years ago I visited a care home for older people whilst using a courtesy car.

 

As I left to return to the car people were pointing and gesticulating. What was happening was that an old guy who had come to visit his wife was turning his car around in the car park and had reversed into my courtesy car once already and was in the process of doing it again.

 

In the end he was stopped before a third collision and details were taken. He was distressed and worried that he might lose his licence and not be able to come and visit his wife.

 

My garage was shocked when I returned in a bashed in car with a note containing details of the old guy.

 

He settled the bill with cash so that was good.

 

His name is what got me, however.... Mr Tombs. Quite appropriate to the location and his driving style, I felt.

And are his initials IN, if so ........

Maybe he was going to live there permanently!

Edited 8 June, 201610 yr by Danny 57