did anyone see this or a guy in a blue shirt standing there looking very wet
no?
shall I tell you what happened?...
please do :D
yes please do
whooop whooop
Spill the unfortunate details then????
joined the m5 from m4 at j16 pulled in to left lane then moved to middle to let the car on the inside of me pull in the slow lane... there were a few trucks in fron of the left so I though I want to get passed these as the spray they were causing was awfull... doing 55 ish...
pulled out into fast lane after checking nothing behind... traffic was about 300 feet behind me...
over taking the car that was in front of me I looked in my mirror again and saw a car quite a way suddenly shoot up close must have beed doing 95+... he had loads of time to break as hje wasnt there 5 second ago and he came from behind not in blind spot...
I passed thae car and pulled in to let him pass and drew up level with his wondow wound down already.... mine was open as \'I was smoking a fag\' at the time. he was still beeping his horn and swearing at me in some language or other....
I asked him what his problem was... etc
went to wind my woindow up and .... \'whatever\' the guy when....
the rear end went really light and twitched back which sent me towards the central res. suddelny there was no one around I tried to steer into it adn thought I had it ...went again back into middle lane caught it and then it just let go very gently into a left spin/slide.... just a passenger from here on... I even ahd time to see out the passenger window to see if there was anything coming towards me...
ther wasnt... onto the hard shourlder down the verge and onto the ditch...
was probaly doing 65 when it went.. 70 max thats the truth
collision was very slow... had it been 2 feet further up I wold ahve hit a massive bramble bush and would have been littlw or no damamge...
as it was I hit the other sied of the ditch on the right front corner while still spinning slightly
came to a stop got out unscathed... then the traffic rushed by... wierd!!!
sttod on the sideof the road couple of people had stopped and asked if I was alriught...
for got my phone that morning ahd to use their for a 999 call
HA traffic officers came afater about 15 mins I was soaked through in 2
sat witht them made a phone call to sort our receovery... was put throgh to AA who put me throught to performance direct who snet onto Highway who put into their claims line... spoke to two poeple their... each time giving al my details...
got it tout eventually... doesnt look too bad... the repair shop have done their estimate and are just waiting for part prices from mazda so should hear monday at latest but I think i will see my baby again...
very lucky to get out alive as I wasnt hit by any other traffic, half mile up the road and the verge is 40 foot down to a filed... steeper not such a soft landing...
So it was you that had the accident not another driver??:2eek
I commend you for owning up too it,most people would try and forget it ever happened and keep it to themselves.
What do you think happened,did you hit a load of standing water and aqua plane your way into the ditch?
Anyway glad your ok apart from a bruised ego:o Hope the repair doesn\'t cost the earth?
Thats bad luck mate. I think we have all had a few scary moments recently with all this bad weather. Its good your ok, and more importantly :) that your rex can be fixed.
Glad to hear you\'re ok mate. Sounds like you may have aqua planed.
dont really know what happened but it was quite clear in front of me so whether it was just that little bit more water on the road has chance to pool a bit...... might have accumulated in the middle lane tramlines..., they get me when it is dry!!!
I def aquaplaned at some point but it felt like the back went first.... any thoughts?...
sorry to hear this mate happens to the best of us
have you got jap rubber?
Could have been a spot of oil or diesel on the centre lane mate??? that was how I got bit..... luckily for me it was only at about 40mph!!
J
Ouch! Good thing your fine and also a result that the car can be repaired too!
sounds weird :2eek you got no idea why it skipped out on you?
dont now what happened... just semd to go from under me... like the F1 yesterday....
got the estimate back from the insurance comp today...
5500 total
3600 of that parts
sound awfully high?...
gonna get a 2nd opinion
wat about if you used 2nd hand parts?
latest is:
the ins comp valued the car at £5650
do £5500 in repairs.. obvious write off... I am gonna get them to up their valuation and then buy the car back from the....
so if I get 6k for the car I pay 25% of that value and get the rest in a cheque...
so I will have 4500 plus the car... to either swap in for a new one or get repiared with second hand parts.
didnt know the panels were so expensive...
front bumper 711
bonnet 638
right front wing 217
fron panel 608
oil cooler 626
plus loads of other bits...
watch this space... if you ave nothing better to do!!!
what you could pay in second hand parts assuming they were standard
front bumper £30-70
Bonnet £20-150
right wing £20-50
get my drift
yeah....
I can see if I get the right payout I might even make a few quid into the bargain...
I have sent andrew at jimmys the estimate report... al 6 pages of it, so he can take a look... havent really used tyhem before... a few parts, but they seem to give good service so far.
also asked him to send me a few more pics on the silver one he has for sale at the mo, as I might be the next owner....
I was driving down the M5 a couple of hours later than this on Friday. I didn\'t see you but the weather was absolutely atrocious. It felt like we were driving through a puddle constantly (you know that feeling when you drive through a pool of water and the car feels like it\'s being pulled back?). I was glad we\'d taken the A2 rather than my RX. R888s in that weather would have been lethal!
unluky mate, glad to hear ur alr8, was supposd to be out on friday, saw d rian, ran back insyd, thought no way in hell im drivin the rx.. nyway £1900 for the repairs! Thats mad, from the parts you need sounds like its lyk the damage i had on my rx when i bought it. and i got it repaired for just under £700. Where abouts do you live? if you decide to buy it back i can help out on saving costs.