Today upon entering the M25, Southbound from Junc 10, on the opposite carriageway was a small 2 car shunt in a congested jam. There looked like there was no damage to either car and yet both parties in the 3rd lane had got out and were discussing the situation.
Got me thinking what should happen if no party is injured,and the vehicles are moveable, what is the correct procedure.?
Do you stay until the cops arrive( not necessary if no damage to people?), move to the hard shoulder and exchange details, or do as they did check all ok, then carry on??
Fortunately never been close to having to worry about this, but I'm sure others have and in many situations it must be extremely frightening
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If they wait until the POLICE arrive, they should be charged with obstruction and walking on the motorway. Idiots! What you get when you have a nanny state is people who freeze and wait for the state to tell them what to do.
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they sound like a pair of muppets to me
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they're probably dead now.
JH
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Once you have ascertained that there is no damage and no injury, then by definition there was no accident, therefore no action needed. Just drive away.
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Whilst I agree in principle, we don't know the full details. If there is ANY element of doubt about the damage, then it's best to look into it while you're there, or else one or both insurance companies will screw you over.
People can't win: if they cause obstruction they are "muppets" or "victims of a nanny state", but if the same people came on here and said "Hi Backroomers, I had an accident last week, thought there was no damage but on getting home I found there was" then some of us would say "Well, it's very black and white. You should have thoroughly checked at the time, there's no point whingeing about the fact that people were angry about you causing congestion, the onus is on you to prove it.... you should always do things thoroughly.... " etc. etc.
Very easy to judge if we weren't there eh?
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PS And yes I am guilty of what I said, by the way!
"Outraged of Cheshire writes" then goes away and thinks about it....
: )
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If no personal injuries get back in, get on the hard shoulder asap then exchange details. Rear end damage is hard to see anyway. A colleague was hit at low speed a couple of weeks ago. Only visible damage was a cracked bumper and numberplate. Once it was stripped down and investigated the bill to fix was £1200.
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they are muppets stevied my man for standing in the 3rd lane of a motorway ,not for the car damage, as said this can be looked at on the hard shoulder or off the motorway or even at a bodyshop,if they value a car more than their life and other peoples then they are "complete muppets" and past any help in my opinion......
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OK, you've proved my point!
"Outraged of Cheshire" missed that vital point...
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Every rush hour the M40 is full of small shunts, loads of them driving with baseball caps on backwards.
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"Every rush hour the M40 is full of small shunts, loads of them driving with baseball caps on backwards."
:D
Can I claim a new keyboard from the Back Room... just spat orange juice all over mine...
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Only reason to stop where the accident took place is to make sure the other person stays put, same as any road. A relative was shunted at a busy set of lights. They both agreed to park in a safer spot, and the scroat who drove into said relative scarpered. No witnesses of course, and now no NCD!
Me - get basic details and stuff the obstruction, then move to the hard shoulder - if you can!
Joe
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It's the perfect time to use that camera phone that you 'never' use for taking pictures. I did.
Steve.
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Xantia HDi.
Buy a Citroen and get to know the local GSF staff better...
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Small shunt on A-road:
in the early 70s, when you could still overtake on single carriageway A roads in the South East, I was overtaking a line of 40mph mimsers in my Citroen Dyane on a straight bit of the A29 in Sussex when the second car from the front, a Renault R4, pulled out suddenly to overtake the front car. I was only doing about 55 but saw the smoke from my tyres in the rearview mirror and eventually had to put two wheels on the right-hand grass verge. At that moment a car came over the crest ahead in the opposite direction. Just squeezed past the R4, cursing a bit, and continued my journey.
I thought I had missed the R4 but on arrival discovered a slightly bent ns bumper and front wing. I had been braking so heavily at the moment of gentle impact that I didn't feel it at all, although the family in the R4 looked round in some alarm. At least they knew it had been their fault because they never complained.
Closer than close.
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