Kandinskyesque
Friend of Leo's
My truck, a 2012 nut and bolt rebuild Mitsubishi got badly damaged in an attempted theft last June.
It got shipped down to the guy who built it for repairs 350 miles away and has been sitting in his warehouse ever since.
Hopefully in the next month or so I'll be fit enough to pick it up and he's also giving me a wee crash course on the truck's upkeep.
This means since then I've been car sharing with Mrs K's SUV, I haven't used it much due to limited mobility but in mid November the lease company refused to authorise an MOT certificate repair, despite Mrs K paying a monthly maintenance levy on top of the lease. This rendered the car illegal on the road and they attempted to terminate the lease with 24 hours notice, while trying to upsell her a new lease at the same time.
After some legal advice, we still have the car and the issue is now in the hands of the Financial Conduct Ombudsman.
It meant sharing my son's car between three of us and as a result of priorities, my son's job came first, followed by my wife's job as well as her helping my daughter with childcare, (and Christmas) meaning my luthier school night classes had to go, as well as missing several medical and hospital appointments (the downside of rural life).
Things began to look up 2 weeks ago, when Mrs K took out a lease for a new car, another Nissan SUV. Health means I haven't had the chance to drive it yet despite it being available all week when Mrs K was working away in Dublin.
She got home last night and ever the workaholic was up this morning to go to her art class followed by the afternoon remote working from the community business hub in the village 2 miles away.
As usual she parked in her usual spot.
Around 4.30pm this evening she heard a lot of sirens but didn't look out the window as she was on a call with my consultant.
When the call finished at 5pm she nipped out the door to grab a coffee only to be confronted by a red car on its roof in front of her, and police, fire and ambulance (and locals) all around.
Apparently the drivers of the red car, two French tourists, had tried to negotiate a two lane 20mph main street by pulling round the parked cars on the side of the road, instead of waiting until the road was clear, accelerating into the oncoming traffic at speed, swerving when they realised their error, crashing into Mrs K's shiny new SUV shunting it 10 yards onto the pavement and with enough momentum to flip their own car onto its roof.
Surprisingly nobody hurt, fortunately it happened 15 minutes after the school bus dropped the local kids off.
Mrs Ks car looked only mildly damaged until my son looked underneath, it's mangled, a write off.
I've saw the CCTV from a local hotel, very bizarre looking and fortunate that Mrs K wasn't leaving the business hub at the time.
It looks like we're back to being a one car family again.
To give you an idea Mrs K's car was where the white van in the photo is and the flipped car ended up just outside the building on the top right of the picture...
It got shipped down to the guy who built it for repairs 350 miles away and has been sitting in his warehouse ever since.
Hopefully in the next month or so I'll be fit enough to pick it up and he's also giving me a wee crash course on the truck's upkeep.
This means since then I've been car sharing with Mrs K's SUV, I haven't used it much due to limited mobility but in mid November the lease company refused to authorise an MOT certificate repair, despite Mrs K paying a monthly maintenance levy on top of the lease. This rendered the car illegal on the road and they attempted to terminate the lease with 24 hours notice, while trying to upsell her a new lease at the same time.
After some legal advice, we still have the car and the issue is now in the hands of the Financial Conduct Ombudsman.
It meant sharing my son's car between three of us and as a result of priorities, my son's job came first, followed by my wife's job as well as her helping my daughter with childcare, (and Christmas) meaning my luthier school night classes had to go, as well as missing several medical and hospital appointments (the downside of rural life).
Things began to look up 2 weeks ago, when Mrs K took out a lease for a new car, another Nissan SUV. Health means I haven't had the chance to drive it yet despite it being available all week when Mrs K was working away in Dublin.
She got home last night and ever the workaholic was up this morning to go to her art class followed by the afternoon remote working from the community business hub in the village 2 miles away.
As usual she parked in her usual spot.
Around 4.30pm this evening she heard a lot of sirens but didn't look out the window as she was on a call with my consultant.
When the call finished at 5pm she nipped out the door to grab a coffee only to be confronted by a red car on its roof in front of her, and police, fire and ambulance (and locals) all around.
Apparently the drivers of the red car, two French tourists, had tried to negotiate a two lane 20mph main street by pulling round the parked cars on the side of the road, instead of waiting until the road was clear, accelerating into the oncoming traffic at speed, swerving when they realised their error, crashing into Mrs K's shiny new SUV shunting it 10 yards onto the pavement and with enough momentum to flip their own car onto its roof.
Surprisingly nobody hurt, fortunately it happened 15 minutes after the school bus dropped the local kids off.
Mrs Ks car looked only mildly damaged until my son looked underneath, it's mangled, a write off.
I've saw the CCTV from a local hotel, very bizarre looking and fortunate that Mrs K wasn't leaving the business hub at the time.
It looks like we're back to being a one car family again.
To give you an idea Mrs K's car was where the white van in the photo is and the flipped car ended up just outside the building on the top right of the picture...
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