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Crashed
I was minding my own business driving to work (down the A34 towards Oxford) when someone for no reason what so ever slammed their brakes on (they were about 4-5 cars infront) Everyone in front slammed on their brakes (me included)....
We all safely come to a stop (im sure 2 cars infront needed a new pair of trousers as he just missed the guy infront of him ) when I look in my rear view mirror and see a 306 locking up its breaks, not too sure how fast he hit me but it looks like it made more damage to his that mine.
We managed to get over to the hard shoulder and exchange details, the guy was really apologetic. He was just very unlucky, he had to wait for a tow truck to move his (his bumper etc was hanging off).
Mine looked fine (apart from the exhaust was making a right racket) so I took it to my VW dealership. They had it up on the ramps it wasn't good news. It has pushed and crumpled the exhaust forwards and looks like it needs a complete new full system, it needs a new bumper and it has also pushed a panel in (that was what they found after taking a quick look).
The car is only worth £1500 (rough estimate) so im not too sure if they will repair it
Will be getting my courtesy car on Tuesday though
Will hopefully get some pictures up tomorrow of the damage.
Im a bit annoyed but at least everyone was ok (but it does mean yet again my insurance goes up like it did last time even though both of the accidents I have had are not my fault!!)
What has annoyed me more though (after thinking back) no-one else even stopped after the accident to see if we were ok/if we needed witnesses, they just drove round us
I was minding my own business driving to work (down the A34 towards Oxford) when someone for no reason what so ever slammed their brakes on (they were about 4-5 cars infront) Everyone in front slammed on their brakes (me included)....
We all safely come to a stop (im sure 2 cars infront needed a new pair of trousers as he just missed the guy infront of him ) when I look in my rear view mirror and see a 306 locking up its breaks, not too sure how fast he hit me but it looks like it made more damage to his that mine.
We managed to get over to the hard shoulder and exchange details, the guy was really apologetic. He was just very unlucky, he had to wait for a tow truck to move his (his bumper etc was hanging off).
Mine looked fine (apart from the exhaust was making a right racket) so I took it to my VW dealership. They had it up on the ramps it wasn't good news. It has pushed and crumpled the exhaust forwards and looks like it needs a complete new full system, it needs a new bumper and it has also pushed a panel in (that was what they found after taking a quick look).
The car is only worth £1500 (rough estimate) so im not too sure if they will repair it
Will be getting my courtesy car on Tuesday though
Will hopefully get some pictures up tomorrow of the damage.
Im a bit annoyed but at least everyone was ok (but it does mean yet again my insurance goes up like it did last time even though both of the accidents I have had are not my fault!!)
What has annoyed me more though (after thinking back) no-one else even stopped after the accident to see if we were ok/if we needed witnesses, they just drove round us