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Thread Author: R.P. Replies: 14
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 Wed 10 Sep 14 20:02 
 Shattered. - R.P.
Driving my truck in between venues today along a country "A" class road when a Transit shaped van came towards me and the was an almighty bang as he collided with my offside door mirror - both elements shattered. I stopped - he didn't. I hung around for a few minutes no sign of him repenting and returning....picked up the debris and went on my way. I was well on my side of the road when it happened, he clearly wasn't. I had to report it to the Police as a fail to stop accident. Inconvenience of trying to source new mirror/glass.... :-(
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 Wed 10 Sep 14 20:10 
 Shattered. - MD
Texting on the mobile or some such other mind detracting carp.

That sort of behaviour which I see on a daily basis from young and old alike has finished me for a return to two wheels (on the road). I was just getting there too. 'tis another story for another day.
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 Wed 10 Sep 14 20:16 
 Shattered. - Armel Coussine
Very annoying thing to happen. Nothing you can do.

But you can understand why paranoid cats install video cameras in their cars recording to a loop. That would record number plates of approaching vehicles.

Of course you still get all the what, me? stuff and lies about positioning on the road. 'He suddenly swerved towards me', stuff like that. Not worth the hassle.
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 Wed 10 Sep 14 21:41 
 Shattered. - John Boy
A few years ago I came across a car with a smashed window on the front passenger side. The driver said he'd been in the same situation as the OP, except he'd been driving with his window open and the broken mirror had been propelled across in front of his face and had exited through the passenger window glass. He was feeling lucky not to have been hit by it.
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 Wed 10 Sep 14 21:43 
 Shattered. - R.P.
That thought crossed my mind - it was hot today and with no Air Con the window was open...
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 Wed 10 Sep 14 22:05 
 Shattered. - BobbyG
What type of truck is it you drive?
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 Wed 10 Sep 14 22:50 
 Shattered. - bathtub tom
Happened to me, strangely, when I was in Anglesey. Car coming other way swung round parked car. Fortunately he stopped and didn't object. Coughed up for a new glass too.
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 Thu 11 Sep 14 09:44 
 Shattered. - BobbyG
My Transit at work has suffered something like 6 or 7 broken mirror glass escapades and one where the full housing was smashed.

Reasons for the breakages vary from passing busses to hitting the inside of a ferry!

Started keeping a spare mirror on the van just in case - it really isn't fun trying to drive it even a short distance with no mirror!
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 Thu 11 Sep 14 13:21 
 Shattered. - TheManWithNoName
A friend of mine was partially blinded when an approaching car smashed his mirror. Some glass imbedded itself in his eye. He ended up with numerous ops and a cornea replacement. One of his eyes now shines like a cats eye when it catches the light.
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 Thu 11 Sep 14 15:41 
 Shattered. - BobbyG
Many years ago my cousin had a Vauxhall Chevette and the headlamp came off at 60mph on the M8 and straight through the windscreen into the passenger seat!

Luckily she had no passengers at the time!
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 Thu 11 Sep 14 16:10 
 Shattered. - Zero
>> Many years ago my cousin had a Vauxhall Chevette and the headlamp came off at
>> 60mph on the M8 and straight through the windscreen into the passenger seat!

Yes - that was common place with those. My mother had one, but both hers dropped on the road when she did one of her trademark abrupt stops.

(she only has two modes of foot, hard down on the brake or hard down on the gas, and she sometimes gets the two mixed up)

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 Thu 11 Sep 14 18:27 
 Shattered. - R.P.
A 27 foot Duccato based exhibition unit Bobby. Fine truck. Replacement long arm units are like hen's teeth, as they are common victims to such accidents Tracked one down to a company in Norfolk who are Fedexing it to me tomorrow. Take some spanners to work on Monday to fix it. Went to the local Police Station to report. Done and dusted in twenty minutes and he could spell my address...almost.
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 Fri 12 Sep 14 07:59 
 Shattered. - Dave_
A lot of my deliveries are to big houses along narrow country lanes. We end up viewing door mirror arms as wear items, much like tyres and brake pads :)

At an old job we had plastic mirror "glasses" on the trucks... you could bash them much harder than real glass ones. No heater element though.
Last edited by: Dave_C220CDI on Fri 12 Sep 14 at 08:01
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 Fri 12 Sep 14 13:44 
 Shattered. - mikeyb
Must be the day for it - a colleague has an accident in the week. Insurance co delivered courtesy car to him today. Parked outside his house for less than 30 minutes before someone had taken the mirror off.

He's gutted that he will now end up forking out for new mirror, or the excess, when the original accident wasn't his fault
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 Fri 12 Sep 14 21:59 
 Shattered. - Runfer D'Hills
Just grateful it wasn't a Nissan.

:-(
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