Thread: Got side swiped today, and they thought it's ok to keep going and not stop.

Got side swiped today in Sydney by and L plater, and they just kept going, luckily the traffic was such so I could stop next to them at the traffic light. Said she did not know if they should stop.... Overall Defender 1, corolla 0, light damage on the front right fenders wheel arch and lots of white pain on the side steps and a long white scratch. The corolla, well, bumper damage and dent's all the way through at he side step height.
The number of idiot drivers out there today was just out of the park... what is going on and how do these people get licences?

link to video until I upload it to someting

Side swipe.mp4 - Google Drive

A few years back I was driving down the main street in Kalgoorlie in my Discovery 2 when I had to stop for a red light. While stopped, a Commodore with a male driver probably in his 40's with a young kid in the passenger street ran into the back of me - not hard, but with enough of an impact that I definitely felt it.

So I got out of the car and walked to the back, where I saw that the Commodore was impaled on the fairly large towbar that was on the back of my Disco. The driver of the other car did not attempt to reverse back off my vehicle, and did not get out of his vehicle. So I walked to his side window and asked "are you right mate ?" or words to that effect. He replied that he wasn't paying attention, but no harm done - he doubted if there would be any damage worth worrying about as he hadn't hit me that hard.

This intersection is outside one of the busier pubs in Kalgoorlie, and there were people watching all this from the front bar and from the balcony above - the impact had obviously made enough noise to gain their attention.

So - I got back in the Disco and when the lights changed to green, I drove off. Unfortunately for old mate in the Commodore, the entire front bumper of his car remained attached to my towbar and peeled off the front of his car making quite a mess of it - all to the amusement of the onlookers in the pub. After about half a block, I stopped and pulled his bumper off my towball and left it in the gutter. The Commodore pulled up behind me - the driver got out this time and was all upset and asked what I was going to do about the damage to his car (apparently it was his wife's car). I just laughed at him and asked him if he was "paying attention" now, and drove off leaving him trying to load his bumper into the back seat of the Commodore. There wasn't even a mark on the Disco.