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Originally Posted by thanksdenis

Sorry for not replying earlier - lost time again!

Rogwat - you are, of course, quite right. At the time of the accident I had my 11 month old grandson in the back and the other car had a five year old boy. Apart from the boy's shock no-one had even a scratch so, if you're going to have an accident (and I'm afraid it is almost inevitable that we all will, at least once) then this is the one to have.

Depending on your point of view, I've been quite lucky with accidents. I've been driving for about eighteen years and have had three crashes - the first was in a 2.0 Cortina. That was my first car and my pride and joy. Guy turns right, directly in front of me and I go smack into his side at 50mph. Bruising from the seatbelt aside, you wouldn't have known anything had happened from the look of me (though the car was half the size it originally was and wasn't even towable never mind driveable!). Second accident - bus comes round a blind bend on the wrong side of the road and takes out my Audi, including passengers and knocks us into a Range Rover behind us. Joy! Again, probably because speeds were low, no real damage done other than to the car.

And lastly the current accident makes three. Each one involved no personal injury and on each time the actual damage to the car got less. I reckon I've had my lot for the rest of my life (at least I hope so!) but I certainly appreciate that a couple of badly damaged cars is much better than one badly damaged person.

Still a pain in the a**e though!

I thought you said you were not injured!