Fun this morning NOT!!!

Datamonkey

Datamonkey

Datamonkey

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Hey up,

Wha fun this morning,

Driving to work, on the m40 in the slow traffic slipping onto the m25 when wham!! an artic smacks into the back of my new astra :( nice bit of damage done to the boot, and my neck an back are stiff.

The artic driver has accepted responsability, which makes things easier i guess. But spent the morning chasing my fleet department at work to sort things out and get a hire car.

Went to luton casualty when i got to work, (mates at work say i need to) and its a poxy 2 an a half hour wait.

Gonna leave it till this eve when i get back to wycombe.


Anyone else had an shunts recently??
 
Ouch - sorry to hear that, hope you're ok. I guess the car's a write off? I think you'll be sore the next few days - I hear it gets worse. :( Did he just not see you? It's going to have a lot of momentum that thing.
 
Truck drver was prolly eating a meat pie or something.

Hope the back isnt too bad... make sure you claim if its bad enough to make you loose sleep and stuff. No reason you should have time off etc cos of his mistake.
 
hey guys, i'm ok. Trucker wasnt a bad bloke, he accepted it was his fault.

Main thing is i am still here and alive, my lass was killed in an accident with a truck feb last year!! was just thinking *&^* is it my turn :(

Still aint put me off driving though, hire car is on its way. BM 3 series

As for the claims line thing, people here at work are saying i should, but i aint so sure on it lol. Am aching a bit, but i am a man lol.

If its worse this eve or tomorrow am i will get it looked into
 
Had a bad morning as well, my car decided it didn't want to start so I had to get a lift off the MD and of course I was 30mins late.

Sorry about your problems dude, hope you feel better.
 
I was in a similar accident 2 years ago, I felt absolutely fine afterwards and didn't bother seeking medical attention. 2 days after the crash I woke up feeling like somebody had snapped my spine in half and I was urinating blood. Turned out I had whiplash and the impact also caused bruising to my internal organs.

It was the other guys fault and the traffic cop immediately said to me on the scene to go in the ambulance even if I was fine as it would help me with a claim for compensation, but I never bothered. I wish I did now as I still get pains in the middle of my back coming down from my neck and it can be debilitating at times.
 
I was hit from behind whilst I was waiting at a set of traffic lights by a transit van.

I randomly get pains in my back now and again, in fact my upper back is aching right now, the other day it was my lower back.

I never went to the hospital after the accident. Kinda wish I had now.

And to top it off, my solictor rang me to tell me that they had no record of my claim, and that they're putting it through today. (My crash happened 2nd December). RAC, you are useless.
 
Always best to get whiplash checked out, if you can’t get to the hospital pop and see your GP.

I have had two very minor shunts in the past both gave me whiplash and on both occasions I went to my GP and then onto private physiotherapy which I paid for myself but the insurers reimbursed me.

On both occasions I received considerable sums of money for whiplash from the insurers, 5 years later and still suffer from some back problems. Best to get it checked.
 
Datamonkey said:
Anyone else had an shunts recently??
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Yep same thing this morning, slowing for the exit when a civic hits me from behind at about 40mph:


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Hopefully not too much damage.
 
ouch Giddy that z4 looks bad, i dont want the car back when its repaired, when my own cars have been hit i have always sold them on afterwards, they just dont feel the same.

has happened to me twice before, but i have never made a claim before, this time i dunno. Have to see how i ache tomorrow.
 
hey up guys,

well after spending 4 hours in a+e in aylesbury lastnight as my neck was killing me, had some xrays taken, and the doc checked me over, i have some swelling to my neck, and a nice case of whiplash. Fun. have been told i cannot drive for 72 hours and to have bed rest.

Then the doc says to me, nice case for a claim, any paper work needs doing i will approve it lol.

The nurse who looked after me was a real babe. Dont think i helped my cause though doing ohh matron impressions when she was wheeling me around on the stretcher.

Have to say being strapped to a spinal board an head brace for over 3+ hours wasnt fun. but had a nice view when she kept pearing over at me ;)
 
chopchop said:
tomorrow you will be in a lot of pain (providing it was a sizable shunt). took about 2 weeks for mine to dull down.
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Yep same here from my shunt I posted about.

I still wake up a bit stiff (no not that sort of stiff, my shoulder and back) but it goes within an hour.
 
after my accident it waent untill the day after i was hurting, tho it wasent anything majorly bad oinly my shoulder and finger when it hit the stereo lol. but i felt perfect the night it happend and had the day off work the day after. glad you went to docs about it:)

Dan
 
The pain when I had my accident last feb didn't really kick in until the next day, was horrible :(

Sill get pains in my lower back now, never had a problem before but now it aches a hell of a lot :(

Just had my claim for that all sorted, but I'd rather I had no pain :(
 
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