Lotusman

What a fuc*ing great start to the day.

Leave me house - 20 yars down the road (rurarl area) and on a single track lane I can see a petrol milk float reverse because something has come the other way...I start to reverse as well as the milk float is about 20 feet away but slow down because I cannot see too much behind me.

What does the milk float do...just gets faster and faster.

Me = hand on horn
Him = drives straight into me

CCCRRRUUUNNNCCCCHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Fantastic !

Exchanged details but on the way to work now have lots of thoughts about him saying to the insurance company that it was my fault / I drove into him.

I am not happy !

simmo

sorry to hear about this incident.
I would get straight onto your insurance and when filling in the claim form high light the fact that you reversed away and that he sped up.
Also make sure that you state you applied the horn continiously and that he ignored it and was driving with due care and attention.

zero_to60

My Mum had a similar experience with a milk float and quite predictably he said that my Mum went into her

Trouble is my folks always believe the best in people so weren't proactive enough in the first instance to make it clear that the milk float reversed into them

Took a while to sort it out so I'd agree with Simmo...make sure you make it very clear right from the word go what the actual situation was

Sorry to hear of this anyway and hope it all gets sorted quickly and there wasn't too much damage

Frenchie

Lotusman, sorry to hear about this; I know how gutted I'd feel.

AAMOI do you have the standard horn?

UK Paul

[QUOTE]Originally posted by simmo
[B]sorry to hear about this incident.
I would get straight onto your insurance and when filling in the claim form high light the fact that you reversed away and that he sped up.

stigzed

Sorry to hear this Lotusman - is there much damage?

cheshire_carper

I wanted to know that too Pete....

If so....maybe a lesson for all, get an upgrade. But no help to LM.

Good luck with the claims.

Lotusman

Standard Horn - predictably no good !!!

steve_the_greek

If the float was reversing, I guess there was a car the other side who would have seen him reversing. Did you get their details ?

The Boy Wonder

Or was it just semi-skimmed!!










Sorry Lotusman, I couldn't resist that. Hope its not too bad, I had an incident about 18 mths ago where a truck ploughed into the back of my Celica at a roundabout, fairly straightforward I would have thought, but no he argued that I cut him up . Anyway I think the insurers are still arguing about it. Hopefully yours won't end up like this.