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Originally Posted by KMohanan I have a doubt. Fiesta was behind you. Fiesta damage on the right side. Logan scratches on the left ! How come ? Also, there is no space on the left side of your logan for the fiesta's right hitting your car. Or the logan photograph was taken after moving the car to another place from the accident slot ?
The fiesta driver must have met with another accident earlier and to cover up or make more money, was he intentionally making a small hit at your back and asking for money showing the old damage ?
I may be wrong. But, I have such bitter experiences... |
Well, this guy who rear ended me was coming really fast. I had slowed down, and after the bus overtook me i turned towards the right on normal driving.I just decelerated quickly and turned right to overtake the stationary truck ahead of me. It was a usual traffic flow. So he rear ended me on the left side of my car.
The person was having women and children inside fiesta. Seemed he was returning from a marriage party. I just stopped, got down and looked behind to find less damage in my car. i just left it off and wanted to move ahead since i had to reach madurai by night as it was already evening 6. This happened at a place called ulundurpettai and madurai was still 2XX km ahead. He stopped me and told wait, " i have asked someone to come"
I had smelled trouble and immediately called madurai police control room and got connected to ulundurpettai police station.
Then another family came in a scorpio and an indica after we waited for about 30 minutes and the a person not so well known in tamil film field alighted from the scorpio. He immediately understood it was the other drivers mistake and asked me to leave. But a set of guys who came with him were intoxicated and started arguing x and y with me. I was worried since i had 2 dogs in my car with me and my wife. I kept quiet and just told him that if he needs to escalate the issue, just come to the nearest police station and file a complaint. They did not do so. Quote:
Originally Posted by mayankk Boss, what do you have under the car there?
armour plates??
I expected at least damage to your car, after seeing the fiesta, but........
If someone is straight out asking for cash,AND refusing to involve cops, something's gotta be out of order with his papers, or he's just trying to fish for a few bucks.
I'm glad you walked off not being lighter in car costs, or extortion! |
For everyone, i would always suggest that if an accident happens on the highway, just forget the car damage first. you will need to go to the nearest police station and file a complaint or FIR. That's why we need INSURANCE.
Just shrug and cool off the incident, behave polite with if any other involved party in the accident, and positively lodge the FIR if the damage is bad. NO policeman can make money in between if the insurance, other papers and the license is straightforward.
I believe the fiesta had hit me from behind right on the exhaust pipe. And Since the exhaust pipe was connected to the front of the engine using long pipe setup, the damage was minimal in logan. I had lost my number plate. The number plate illumination box had just jumped off the bracket and it was fixed back with a screw driver. The bumper had taken good hit but as i know logan's bumper for past 3.5 years of my owning the same, it never got dent or broken on small hits in traffic. But i never thought it was this strong. I have the 2007 model renault logan 1.6 petrol, and i was told by the service person that a set of initial models were having completely imported parts (CKD?) and i was one of the lucky persons to have original renault parts on my car. Also the 1.6L engine , the parts inside the bonnet were having marking in other languages than english when i got them. I believe that i am lucky to have got a direct import version of the car.
Last edited by Technocrat : 13th June 2011 at 23:25.
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