Hit and run
OK, so I don’t drive so I may have misunderstood the highway code, however, I’m pretty sure that even Royal Mail vans need to stop when they’ve mounted a curb and struck a pedestrian with thier wing mirror. So I wasn’t rolling around the floor in pain but having a quick look in the mirror and then driving off without so much as a “sorry” is just plain wrong. He’s very lucky I didn’t get his registration number.
I was once overtaking a pensioner on a footpath in Bedford (pushing me closer to the kerb) when I felt something strike the back of my hand with some force.
After exclaiming “what the ****” and looking over my shoulder to see nothing there (obviously!), I looked ahead again and noticed a Ford Ka driving away from me with it’s wing mirror hanging off.
My hand was fine!
Dan 1, Ka 0!
Dan said this on April 24th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
That’s happened to me too - hit on the elbow by someone’s door mirror. Bloddy hurt, as it happens, but they just zoomed off.
Not sure it was a Ka, but certainly something of that ilk (small and crap and driven by chavs)
goron said this on April 24th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Hit on the elbow by a Ford Ka? How tall are you??!!??
(My ex used to own a Ford Ka - she wasn’t a chav. You can’t sit in the back of one if you’re over four foot tall, and the legroom in the front isn’t much better either.)
Dan said this on April 24th, 2008 at 4:41 pm