The orange punto that i'd worked on for 6 or 7 months, put tons of money into aswell as blood sweat and tears, then finally got on the road MOT'd taxed and insured a couple of months back has just been involved in a bump 
Thats annoying. Whats more annoying is that he's blaming ME!
I was waiting at a T junction first in line to turn right with traffic behind me, lights turned to green. Took a glance to the left, saw a red flatbed pulling up, looked to my right to the corner i was taking, next thing the flatbed was infront of me trying to turn into the road i was leaving! He hadn't stopped for the red light.
Shaken up i got out of the car and he was immediatly like "what are you doing! we have right of way!" i replied "You can't possibly have, The lights are green here." Woman who was behind me wound down her window "Our lights had turned to green, we had right of way!"
Anyway manovered of to the road side to swap details and the witness annoyingly drove off. All i know was she was a blonde lady driving a newish black car, possibly a Renault megane.
Contacted the police non-emergancy thing, they were no help regarding helping to find the witness. :bang:
So the situation is I am 100% certain he should have stopped at that junction. Its a junction i use many times a day as its at the bottom of my road and i live at number 3 (i.e. i AM at the bottom.) From talking to him, he didn't know the area very well at all. He's claiming I confused the lefthand filter for the green light and set off to go right. I know i didn't because the traffic to turn left had already been moving for a while, and about 15sec after the filter comes on, the green light comes on for the rest of us. And now i have no witness. And he had another 2 guys in his flatbed who are obviously backing him up. From the position of the vehicles, it was also clear he had cut the corner (probably in an attempt to make it through the lights.)
I am NOT going to be held responsible for this, and it makes me so f*cking angry that he's blaming me.
Thats annoying. Whats more annoying is that he's blaming ME!
I was waiting at a T junction first in line to turn right with traffic behind me, lights turned to green. Took a glance to the left, saw a red flatbed pulling up, looked to my right to the corner i was taking, next thing the flatbed was infront of me trying to turn into the road i was leaving! He hadn't stopped for the red light.
Shaken up i got out of the car and he was immediatly like "what are you doing! we have right of way!" i replied "You can't possibly have, The lights are green here." Woman who was behind me wound down her window "Our lights had turned to green, we had right of way!"
Anyway manovered of to the road side to swap details and the witness annoyingly drove off. All i know was she was a blonde lady driving a newish black car, possibly a Renault megane.
Contacted the police non-emergancy thing, they were no help regarding helping to find the witness. :bang:
So the situation is I am 100% certain he should have stopped at that junction. Its a junction i use many times a day as its at the bottom of my road and i live at number 3 (i.e. i AM at the bottom.) From talking to him, he didn't know the area very well at all. He's claiming I confused the lefthand filter for the green light and set off to go right. I know i didn't because the traffic to turn left had already been moving for a while, and about 15sec after the filter comes on, the green light comes on for the rest of us. And now i have no witness. And he had another 2 guys in his flatbed who are obviously backing him up. From the position of the vehicles, it was also clear he had cut the corner (probably in an attempt to make it through the lights.)
I am NOT going to be held responsible for this, and it makes me so f*cking angry that he's blaming me.
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