Thread: Bent my Number Plate

Originally Posted by solmanic

..Unbeknown to me, she inexplicably stopped halfway across the broken give way line, and I promptly drove into the back of her .....
After the hit the lady got out and had a good go at me (why do people do that before moving their bloody car out of the way?!?). ...

Bugger! - Did the same thing a while back though not in a Defender - I always watch the car in front now.

The usual human response goes something like SHOCKANGERDEPRESSION/DENIAL ACCEPTANCEMOVING ON.
Sounds like you got the Shock and Anger bit. (Hubby would have got the depression section)

I doubt you've done much damage - sounds like the lancer absorbed most of the energy.

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Bugger! - Did the same thing a while back though not in a Defender - I always watch the car in front now.

This is probably the part about the whole situation that ****s me the most (we can use that kind of language now that our esteemed PM condones it). The location of the prang is one of the most notorious spots for rear-enders in the western suburbs, and I knew it! Seen at least half a dozen similar bingles or their aftermath on this corner. I have always made a point at this spot of watching the car in front until it has gone before turning my attention to the oncoming traffic, and I WAS watching the car in front on this occasion. She moved off into an obvious gap in the traffic. then just decided to STOP halfway out the gate after I had turned away. With twenty cars queued behind you in peak hour traffic you generally don't wait another ten seconds to be sure (although from now on I probably will and sucks to anyone behind who disagrees with the delay).

I am going through your list of emotions in reverse it seems. I was totally calm and conciliatory at the scene, then quite accepting that I was to blame in any case the insurance companies will sort it out, then got depressed on the way home about having to stand in line for three hours at Queensland Transport while I wait to get a new number plate (oh, and the likely damage to my vehicle which I was sure would present itself on closer inspection), and am only now moving on to anger.

Sorry to hear about your number plate. My first thought on reading the title was you'd been wading through a creek or something.


I happen to have a very nice, respectable front bumper off an 08 Defender sitting at my back door. Trouble is I think the freight costs would be more than the bumper is worth.

Surely if she has crossed the line then she is partially at fault for stopping abruptly ?

My wife did exactly the same thing, but the other driver did'nt want to exchange licences & hardly spoke the lingo.
Lucky huh?

We checked the number plate & it was a Nissan company car. She ( the driver) was probably going back to Japan soon & slipped the car into the carpark.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Surely if she has crossed the line then she is partially at fault for stopping abruptly ?

We put that to the cops when checking the plates ownership & they agreed - but would need to charge my wife with careless driving first before following it up with the other party. We said what now? & they said you found your way in, you should be able to find your way out of here...

mate,,, im going thro the same thing,, she drove off then stoped an reversd into me,, an got out an lost it at me, i bet only cos im in a defender witha masive bullbar an a P plater,, an all it did to her car was a cracked tail light,

not a scratch on the defender,, thats what matters most,

The guy who changed lanes into me a couple of years ago went of about me ramming him. Scratch in the side of the bull bar for me. Stoved in the rear pillar and quarter panel in his comvertable. Guess he was lucky the roof was up at the time as there would have been no way it still worked afterwards.

After his rant and accusations of me ramming him deliberatly I upset him by double checking the details he wrote down. Went strait to the cops and reported everything. waited till his insurance contacted me and gave them the same report.