Got rear ended but C is Tonka Tuff!

[NVS 300]

Bloke rear ended me this morning whilst I was turning from Elizabeth into Eagle Street (round the big Moreton Bay figs in the financial district for those of you familiar with Brisneyland). It's basically a round about that exits into a pedestrian crossing with lights: cab in front of me stopped, I stopped, Super Mario brothers in his Hertz rent a car behind me decides to climb into my boot.

World's biggest bang followed by C driver letting off world's biggest string of invective.

Get out expecting to see boot crumpled, bumper on the ground and tail light everywhere. See his car first and is as I expected: his RHS headlight pushed up so it points 45 degrees downward, right hand side of his bumper nearly on the ground, left hand side pointing up to the sky, plastic grill everywhere.

About this point I'm thinking "I'm up for a whole new rear end here". Get round the LHR side of my car - there's a bit of paint on the bumper. Tail light's fine, boot lids fine (although two round imprints in the dust where his headlights made contact dead centre of the "Chrysler" tag but didn't even leave scratch), bumper has moved maybe 4mm downward on the LHR side. Have now polished the paint off and I can see that the plastic is deformed and top layer of paint chipped away around the impact area but relative to the Toyota Camry, the C came off exceptionally well! Tonka Tuff!

I suppose a half tonne weight differential helped.

Took photos with my mobile phone camera on the spot then moved off to a safe point and exchanged details. Got him to admit liability, got his driver licence details, had him sign the page where I wrote down his details to affirm that all is correct under a statement that he admits liability, took some more pix of both his and my car from every angle, checked his signature matched that on his licence and that he looked like the bloke on the licence, wrote down the hire car number as displayed on the windscreen and the rego.

Had him ring my mobile and leave a message on messagebank giving his name, licence number and again admitting libaility (yes, I'm an ar$ehole but as someone who is on the road all the time for work I trust no one these days, been burnt too many times). Him ringing my mobile on the spot also gave me his mobile number by default.

I must have seemed agro 'cos Super Mario Bros kept well back out of arm's reach, kept apologising and asking if I was all right! LOL! Unfortunately the only words I had for him were around exchanging details - didn't trust myself to say anything more otherwise he would have got a category six spray that would have made Cyclone Larry look like a grasshopper's fart. If he hadn't been so quick to admit liability I am sure I would have gone Chopper Reid on his arse quick smart. Have to ring him and apologise! After all, we were both on our way to the cathedral for mass!

Went off to the gym and took it out on some heavy weights for a couple of hours!

Now have to go through all that BS of quotes and being without the car.

ARRGGGHHH! Hulk smash!

Anyway, enough spleen venting, back to reality! Thanks for listening! LOL!

[STAGE 3 R/T]

damn sucks to hear!

[wbornio]

Sounds like Super Mario submarined your rear end as he was heavy on the brakes - way too late - any exhaust damage? I would expect most of the damge to be down low... Great 'how to' on how to handle a 'other guys fault' accident with someone willing to admit liability - you got hit by a stand up guy with insurance (rental car) - you should pay homage to the accident gods...

Best of luck with the repairs... shouldn't cost you a cent - but. like you said, you'll be without your C for a while...

[formerice]

Might be a good time for the CSRT8 rear bumper mod? You know like when life deals you a bag of lemons, you make lemonaid. Anyway you did good not snapping his pencil neck.

[feros]

Time for a new "booty"

[NVS 300]

Repair date is set for three weeks away, all approved by the insurers.

Repairer will be Col Shipstone down at Windsor - recommended by the guys at Albion Chyrsler/Dodge/Jeep and the official repairers to Porsche in BrisVegas. Shipstone **Winner 2006 AutoBody Repairer of the Year Best Large Shop - AUSTRALIA**

Will be without the car for up to three days bugger. Whole new bumper, honeycomb, support and reo.

Have sent Super Mario Bros a thank you card with a $10 scratchie for being a good bloke - bumper had a few scratches from dragging my bike in and out anyway so they'll all be fixed up as well!

[Reppr]

You da man! Sorry to hear about your car but what a way to handle the situation. Hats off to ya!

[Spittin Game]

Damn dude that sux. Good luck with getting it fixed, Im going through that right now on mine. Sounds like you got the right place working on it though!