Monday, October 03, 2005
Smashing time
I was sitting at home last evening with the wonderful girlfriend; the TV was on, we had eaten dinner, and we were scanning the Sunday papers, contented. BANG! BRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
Oh dear...sounds like a problem outside. A car was stationary across the road, with it's brake lights on. It was dark, so I couldn't make out the car colour (dark) or type (4-door saloon?) accurately. The car looked OK but a male driver was looking guilty. There were two cars parked in front of him. Was he alright? Yes, he put the car into reverse, and slowly drove off round the parked cars and down the road. So what caused the noise...?
Of course - he'd hit the first car and pushed that one back into the car behind it, smashing some of their lights. The driver hadn't bothered to get out and check anything; his car still worked (and he still had the engine running), and he'd probably just left the pub we live opposite, inebriated, after a long afternoon session, so best hightail it out of there quickly before the car owners and/or police come along.
This is not the first time something like this has happened around here; about a week after we moved in (over five years ago) a car came down the road too fast, didn't notice parked cars until too late and swerved to avoid them, demolishing next door and the house next to that's front garden fences. People rushed out of the pub to see if the driver was OK, but he just reversed as fast as he could away from the house he'd nearly hit, and screeched away round the corner. Around three years ago a Lotus Elise parked down the street was crunched into by a car one summer evening, leaving it's carbon fibre bodywork in a complete mess. Maybe he'd swerved to avoid a cat or something? We'll never know as he didn't stay around to explain! About two years ago a car parked around the corner was hit (very hard/fast) at night by someone who obviously just did not see it. He (or I presume it was a he..) hit it almost full on, but presumably just drove off too, without trace. So it does happen quite regularly that drivers around here hit other, parked, cars.
I doubt very much if they were all caused by the same driver, but if anyone in Bromley does see a man driving a car with the registration number
LY52 XGL
then can they please ask him to get in touch with patrons of the White Horse pub in Palace Road who wish to have compensation paid for damage done. He was the guy who drove off slowly but guiltily last night from outside my house!
Oh dear...sounds like a problem outside. A car was stationary across the road, with it's brake lights on. It was dark, so I couldn't make out the car colour (dark) or type (4-door saloon?) accurately. The car looked OK but a male driver was looking guilty. There were two cars parked in front of him. Was he alright? Yes, he put the car into reverse, and slowly drove off round the parked cars and down the road. So what caused the noise...?
Of course - he'd hit the first car and pushed that one back into the car behind it, smashing some of their lights. The driver hadn't bothered to get out and check anything; his car still worked (and he still had the engine running), and he'd probably just left the pub we live opposite, inebriated, after a long afternoon session, so best hightail it out of there quickly before the car owners and/or police come along.
This is not the first time something like this has happened around here; about a week after we moved in (over five years ago) a car came down the road too fast, didn't notice parked cars until too late and swerved to avoid them, demolishing next door and the house next to that's front garden fences. People rushed out of the pub to see if the driver was OK, but he just reversed as fast as he could away from the house he'd nearly hit, and screeched away round the corner. Around three years ago a Lotus Elise parked down the street was crunched into by a car one summer evening, leaving it's carbon fibre bodywork in a complete mess. Maybe he'd swerved to avoid a cat or something? We'll never know as he didn't stay around to explain! About two years ago a car parked around the corner was hit (very hard/fast) at night by someone who obviously just did not see it. He (or I presume it was a he..) hit it almost full on, but presumably just drove off too, without trace. So it does happen quite regularly that drivers around here hit other, parked, cars.
I doubt very much if they were all caused by the same driver, but if anyone in Bromley does see a man driving a car with the registration number
LY52 XGL
then can they please ask him to get in touch with patrons of the White Horse pub in Palace Road who wish to have compensation paid for damage done. He was the guy who drove off slowly but guiltily last night from outside my house!
