Right, just leaving the local grocer's shop when BANG some idiot backs their car into the side of mine

At least they have just called and their insurance company says that she is 100% to blame for reversing out into my car.

Funny that I have been waiting since November last year to get a dash cam that was a freebie from my insurance company, it arrived today and I fitted it just before I went out to the shop, so all of the incident is on video

Now that's what I call an amazing coincidence!

I was expecting this.




Glad you are OK and that everything is going to work out on your favor.

At first I thought those were pics in Belgium but then I noticed the shop signs were in English so it must be Scotland!

They are in Belgium!

Yeah I'm ok and I take the car in for an estimate tomorrow, hardly felt the impact, it was the noise of the crunching plastic on the ford that gave me the fright

It looks like Belgium, or maybe there is an exception in Scotland and cars ride on the right lane (look 3rd pic)

Glad it's only material, even if we are never happy about that.

Edit: too late

Oh that's odd! Why are there shop signs in English then? Interesting.

English is used a lot here, especially in advertising, the local baker runs her signs past me before putting them out as she once put a sign out that didn't read good at all. The one she has out just now says "Chocolate is like a hug on the inside" advertising their home made artisanal Belgian Pralines

If your dash cam caught it then you might want to turn the mount 90degrees counterclockwise :p

Thanks for that interesting info Alicatt and I'm glad that no one was hurt in the little "bang up" that occurred.

@ RSColonel - I hadn't thought of that!

It's more the audio it caught, you can see the car start to move just as it goes out of frame then you hear the crunch, no 90° movement needed

I think the Flemish word is "klootzak"

Ja, of Stommerijk ook is goed

Met een 20jaarig zon, ik heb veel worden voor "muppet"

"Klootzak" sounds like a Star Wars character's name.

The polite way of translating it is a-hole or such, but it is a compound word with it meaning ball bag or nut sack, zak = bag, sack or pocket

We use 'scrote' as a similar insult.

First time I heard that word was working with the Manchester Police in the early 90s

Got the estimate for the repair: £2007/$2588/€2368 OUCH!

Won't the other driver's insurance cover that? You are not at fault in this incident.

Not really appropriate to call a woman like that