The Discovery has been anihalated!

Sirrel Squirrel · 9 Oct 2008 at 12:11

Got back from work this morning to find my Discovery outside the train station on its side with a police cordon sealing off the road. Turns out a van smashed into and sent it about 30ft up the road until it rolled onto its side. The van driver was taken to hospital, apparently he wasn't wearing a seat belt and judging by the damage and how far the Discovery had launched he must have been going seriously quick and is bloody lucky he hit the passenger side of his van!

Now the fun begins with the insurance companies, mine has a call centre in India and it's like talking to a brick wall to get advice on how to sort the claim out since I'm only third party insured. Called the other guys insurance but they can't do anything because he obviously hasn't reported it yet so call my company again on their legal number and they were like :confused:

So do I just wait for the guy to report it once he's been fixed up?

LizardKing · 9 Oct 2008 at 12:14

go through a claims company, i'm sure someone will be along to suggest one

NathanE · 9 Oct 2008 at 12:24

Europa Consultants get recommended a lot on PH and SELOC. Give them a try?

Sirrel Squirrel · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:15

Well I finally got the Discovery back from the insurers after a needlessly long winded case, the police gave me the wrong registration of the Sprinter that hit the Discovery (they were one digit out). However the reg they gave me also related to another Sprinter so I chasing the owner of this one and their insurance company who actually picked up my car from the recovery company and got an engineer to write it off, this took about a month to sort out. The police then got in touch and told me I had the wrong man and gave me the correct details, I'd had enough of sorting everything out by this stage so I just got the solicitors to deal with it, 3 months later and I've finally got paid out along with a nice sum for loss of earnings from all the time that was wasted.

Anyways here are the pics of the damage:

Yes the boot door went through the front window!

InvaderGIR · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:17

It's good that it was parked up with nobody in it. Shame the police messed up, but at least they did correct their mistake rather than let you carry on chasing the wrong person.

Lashout_UK · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:19

I think that's dead.

fini · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:22

Dorje · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:28

:O Looks like something erupted inside your car, good thing you weren't inside it when the accident occured!

Quite shocking it took this long to resolve, hopefully you've been reimbursed accordingly.

Trifid · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:33

Err, remind me to never to go in a Mk1 Disco... That car held up terribly...

Glad it is finally sorted.

Duke · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:36

Hope you get sorted :eek:

fini said:
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Beat me to it :p Might take more than one bottle though for this one.

Lopéz · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:37

Trifid said:
Err, remind me to never to go in a Mk1 Disco... That car held up terribly...

Glad it is finally sorted.

A van hit it hard enought to shunt it 30 foot up the road..... what exactly did you expect!?

Sirrel Squirrel · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:38

Lopéz said:
A van hit it hard enought to shunt it 30 foot up the road..... what exactly did you expect!?

aye, that 30ft was up hill too

Hxc · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:43

That van must've been moving at some pace!

Sirrel Squirrel · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:47

The police were going to charge him with driving without due care and attention but surprise surprise they didn't go through with it in the end, the speed limit of the road was 30mph so you do have to wonder how fast he was going.

Steeps · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:49

Not a fan of this mod, any changes with the engine?

danza · 8 Mar 2009 at 20:28

Steeps said:
Not a fan of this mod, any changes with the engine?

Looks ok IMO. Desperately needs de-tangoing though.

Howard · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:02

You need to claybar the bonnet, badly. Otherwise, nice car

That's quite dead :eek:

Glad you got a payout in the end!

chumpit · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:10

Hey keep it make yourself one of these
http://www.dakar4x4.me.uk/dakar.htm
for off road fun.

Trifid · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:32

Lopéz said:
A van hit it hard enought to shunt it 30 foot up the road..... what exactly did you expect!?

How they roll off the Euro NCAP.

chumpit · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:40

Trifid said:
How they roll off the Euro NCAP.

Thats the problem with the old all aluminum construction the roofs werent very strong, the new ones have roll bars hidden in the body work, so they could sell them in america, atleast thats what they did with the defender.