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Jayne rang me this morning at 8am, I was already on the works phone so ignored it as I usually do thinking I'll ring her back in a bit.
I was on the blower to the office and about a minute later I get the chap on the other end of the line saying, "Jayne's just rang your desk phone, can you ring her back." Right, this can't be good.
I phone her up and the first words are, "We're both OK but we've been in an accident." I start thinking great, I'm at least 45 minutes away from where she is and I'm about 15 minutes from the agreed time to take this site down to switch it over onto it's new link.
Jayne had stopped in a line of traffic and the car behind apparently didn't see the four cars in front of her pulling up to a stop, 50 limit road. Jayne said the woman was still accelerating when she saw them stopped and hit the brakes. Jayne just had to sit there and wait for the hit.
Long story short, Police and Ambos arrived and checked her and James over, both OK but Jayne's got seatbelt marks on her chest, banged her knee on the steering column, hit her calf on the underside of the seat, scratched her glasses which went flying into the footwell and she has started complaining of a stiff back and twinges moving her neck which I've told her will only get worse. She's got an existing appointment at the docs on Tuesday, so she'll be mentioning it then.
In short Jayne's a star sorted everything out. She rang the AA to get the car recovered after the accident, AA Accident Management has kicked in, they've contacted the woman's insurance (who has admitted full liability by the way) and repair has been authorised. Her EX has been taken away for repair, estimated two weeks, we've already got the courtesy car sat outside the house and the PI forms are in the post.
So the pics.
Jayne's car, doesn't look so bad but it'll be new upper and lower bumper, mounts, mounts straightened, new tailgate, possibly locking mechanism, seatbelt pre-tensioners at a guess. I'm sure they'll find more.
Car is worth about £7-8k so I'll be stunned if it gets written off.
"You should have seen the other guy!" Well erm...
Both airbags deployed, even though she was the only person in the car. I would expect her car will be written off looking at the damage, even broke her windscreen. Jayne said the radiator had started to dump its contents on the road, doesn't show up on the pics. Yes it's a Focus if you can't tell.
Jayne's first proper jokey reaction to it all was, "We'll that's decided it, next car is definitely a Honda."
I was on the blower to the office and about a minute later I get the chap on the other end of the line saying, "Jayne's just rang your desk phone, can you ring her back." Right, this can't be good.
I phone her up and the first words are, "We're both OK but we've been in an accident." I start thinking great, I'm at least 45 minutes away from where she is and I'm about 15 minutes from the agreed time to take this site down to switch it over onto it's new link.
Jayne had stopped in a line of traffic and the car behind apparently didn't see the four cars in front of her pulling up to a stop, 50 limit road. Jayne said the woman was still accelerating when she saw them stopped and hit the brakes. Jayne just had to sit there and wait for the hit.
Long story short, Police and Ambos arrived and checked her and James over, both OK but Jayne's got seatbelt marks on her chest, banged her knee on the steering column, hit her calf on the underside of the seat, scratched her glasses which went flying into the footwell and she has started complaining of a stiff back and twinges moving her neck which I've told her will only get worse. She's got an existing appointment at the docs on Tuesday, so she'll be mentioning it then.
In short Jayne's a star sorted everything out. She rang the AA to get the car recovered after the accident, AA Accident Management has kicked in, they've contacted the woman's insurance (who has admitted full liability by the way) and repair has been authorised. Her EX has been taken away for repair, estimated two weeks, we've already got the courtesy car sat outside the house and the PI forms are in the post.
So the pics.
Jayne's car, doesn't look so bad but it'll be new upper and lower bumper, mounts, mounts straightened, new tailgate, possibly locking mechanism, seatbelt pre-tensioners at a guess. I'm sure they'll find more.
Car is worth about £7-8k so I'll be stunned if it gets written off.
"You should have seen the other guy!" Well erm...
Both airbags deployed, even though she was the only person in the car. I would expect her car will be written off looking at the damage, even broke her windscreen. Jayne said the radiator had started to dump its contents on the road, doesn't show up on the pics. Yes it's a Focus if you can't tell.
Jayne's first proper jokey reaction to it all was, "We'll that's decided it, next car is definitely a Honda."
