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Originally Posted by vid6639 WheelieJ, good to knwo your fine. The accident looks bad. Your car has taken a beating font and back.
Luckily the guy was decent enough to own up.
If you need any assistance from me for Dakshin honda let me know. My office is in E-city and Dakshin is on way to work.
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Hi all,
Thanks for your notes of concern. I am fine. I was badly shaken up. Fortunately the car was barely moving - I had just released the brake when it happened (I guess he released the clutch too early). Yes, the Honda City does seem to crumple very easily. Again, thankfully, the truck in front had a high bar so the bonnet of the car took a beating; if you see the front bumper is not as badly damaged which is why i am hopeful that the engine bay is relatively untouched. If the rear bar in the truck had been lower, am sure the passenger cabin would have been affected also. If I had been going at any higher speed, the bar would have been at my throat. The possibilities are indeed endless.
As Benny said, the driver was pretty decent. He actually walked up to my car immediately and opened the door and calmed me down and apologised. Helps that he and his wife are both doctors, I guess, so they are used to dealing with emergencies (and shaken people). They didnt try to get away at any time and were there until all the police/RTO formalities were completed.
However, I do anticipate a change in stance once the question of shelling out hard cash comes into play. Added to that is the fact that I dont have cashless insurance.
Vid, it will be great if you can drop into Dakshin Honda and check the status of the car. On Friday, Arvind, the workshop manager, had not yet opened the bonnet so he could not say whether there was any damage to the engine bay. he said he will give a final estimate by Tuesday.
Its a clean case of "khaaya piya kuch nahin, glass toda baara aana" (Did not eat or drink anything, but broke a glass and paid 12 annas).
The police were decent too - all of them who responded at the spot as well as at the police station. One of their relatives (in a red shirt) tried to change the story/ sequence of events by saying that it was caused by the truck braking suddenly causing a chain accident or that I had braked suddenly, another of his relatives said that it was imperative that we had the truck's registration no., it was my fault that we didnt note it, etc..... yet another tried the same at the police station also, but as Benny said, the police did not pay heed to any of them. When he was asked the doctor himself admitted that it was his fault and he would pay the difference between the cost and the insurance payment.
i will take along a friend or two when i meet with the doctor re. the compensation amount.
Cheers.