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Minor bump in car, no damage? get it checked.

If your Missus has a stiff shoulder, she should get that checked. My ex was hit by an NHS delivery lorry, and what was at first just a stiff shoulder turned out to be soft tissue DAMAGE requiring cortisone injections, physiotherapy and pain that continues to this day, nearly 2 years on. It's not helped by the fact she's just been in another accident - a car sideswiped her whilst she was stationary - and it's so much worse now.

The driver in the second accident kept going - there is anecdotal evidence to suggest she was high as a kite. My other half and her family tracked her down, and got the law involved. I'm so glad to hear that the chap responsible for the accident was such a gent over the whole thing.

You are totally correct, the daft thing is my Mrs is a lawyer and spent 20 years previously in civil litigation. I think the proven scammers she dealt with and also the very serious cases with terrible injuries involved has effected her. I reckon she'd need to be much worse than she is before she'd consider it, much worse. I too in all fairness suggested she should visit a doctor and maybe if her pain worsens take it further but it won't happen, not in a month of Sundays. Maddening thing is that she is bloody struggling tonight, she's no wimp either.
 
I too in all fairness suggested she should visit a doctor

I had the same problem. It's vital she gets checked over ASAP. The horror story outcome here would be a bloodclot, or nerve damage, or torn muscle that knits back together incorrectly... the smart thing to do is to pre-empt any future ongoing problems. Don't get me wrong - you hope for the best, but you make sure you're ready to deal with whatever may arise in a timely manner by taking sensible precautions.

I used emotional blackmail, and got her to go the same day. Thank goodness I did. Whatever happens it is critical to get an official note on her medical record of any injuries asap.
 
Shit happens, it could be any of us in either vehicle even if we're generally rather sensible middle aged drivers. It's why we have insurance.

The red flag on this is that the chap damaged 4 cars and wants to avoid getting his insurance company involved.
 
I've been in the middle of a five-car pile-up, where the offending driver - following too closely - could not stop in time. She shunted hard into the back of my Subaru Legacy, but the tow-bar took the brunt of the collision. It was a relatively simple repair job to replace the tow-bar and bumper. I thought all was well.

Less than a week later, my transmission seizes and stays stuck in gear. The transmission specialist suspected that the force of the shunt, relayed by the rear diff, drive-shaft etc. bent something in the gear-box. Most unusual, they said. But my insurance took care of the rebuild as part of the original accident cover. Collision damage is often more than skin-deep.
 
Shit happens, it could be any of us in either vehicle even if we're generally rather sensible middle aged drivers. It's why we have insurance.

The red flag on this is that the chap damaged 4 cars and wants to avoid getting his insurance company involved.

Yep I agree. A bus reversed into me about 3 weeks ago and did some minor damage to the front of my car - basically a slightly deformed/scratched bumper & a displaced headlight. Guy from the Bus company tried to persuade me to get it repaired cheaply and they'd repay me 'up to £400 in cash' to avoid involving insurance companies but I declined and went through my own insurance and it was repaired at one of their approved centres (at a cost of £1500). At the end of this I have a car that's been properly repaired and in fact looks better than it did before the accident (it's an 11 year old Civic). I have a protected no claims but it'll probably have some knock-on to my future premiums, but I'd still rather live with that and have the car sorted properly as a cheap repair that left any evidence of a crunch would probably knock a few hundred off the value of the the car anyway.
 
Can you believe it, less then 400 metres from the incident the Mrs was involved in yesterday my friend who I took the car in to and he put it on the ramps........his daughter was knocked down in a hit and run. Only description was a "red car". Girl is a bit bruised and battered but hopefully ok. Tony thought they'd never catch the culprit when he told me the news.

Good news is footage from a nearby shop has caught the incident on CCTV and jeez the kid took a knock.....they have now identified car and driver so hopefully police will be paying a visit before I've finished this post.

Makes our incident look very small now after seeing the video on his phone.
 
If they write it off just buy it from them and fix it.
I did this when a rear shunt wrote off my (very) old car. Insurers sold it back to me for £300, I did about a tenners worth of work and sold it on for £400 - everyone happy..
 


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