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....owns this car?

Bless her!

Oh dear

looks like its been on fire?

She been letting you drive it Danny?

What happened?

Rush hour 8am this morning....

* Waiting at a T-junction to turn right
* Vehicle approaching from right, indicating left
* Pull out in front of vehicle and then discover it wasn't turning left it was in fact carrying straight on

"What sort of vehicle did your wife collide with?" I hear you ask.

A bicycle?....no
A car?....no
A van?....no

A cement mixer wagon?....oh yes!

She doesn't believe in doing anything half-hearted doesn't our Stell!

Are you going to machine polish that out then?

presume the Mrs is just shaken not stirred...maybe she even got out and started waving her hand bag around?

She was a little shaken as was her passenger. Both were taken to hospital as a precaution.

Accident happened at 8:15am, I recovered the car myself and it was parked in our front garden by 9:30am. Insurance company informed soon after, courtesy car arrived at 2pm and Mini was collected by accident repair centre at 3pm.

10/10 for Direct Line, not the cheapest by any means but blimey they're efficient!

Glad the Mrs is ok!

When someone went into my car, Direct Line were a nightmare. I told them I didn't want to make a claim as the 3rd party was sorting it all out, but they still put it as a claim (without telling me) as they arranged a body shop to give a quote on it. So when it came to renewal, they had wiped my NCB off and whacked the premium up. Naturally I called to try to sort it out. After holding for hours and getting passed to different departments over a period of 2 months, I just gave up on them. Now with Adrian Flux, NCB intact and paying less than I ever was with Direct Line.....I do not know why their systems were so poor in this case as they've been great for my Astravan.....

I hate talking to numpties!

Phone call from some chimp at the accident repair centre this morning asking me what sort of bumper was on the Mini to which I replied "Take a look for yourself it's in the f****** boot!"

Phone call from some woman at Direct Line this morning asking me if I knew my wife's car was a limited edition, i.e. a Mini Cooper S Works, and that I hadn't declared the fact it was a Works version when I took the policy out on Stell's behalf. I explained (in a less than calm manner) that I had and that she had better go away and check her records again. Five minutes later she phoned back to tell me that I had in fact declared that the car was a Works version when I took the policy out and that the claim would now go through without any further hiccups.