Bingle

On Saturday as hubby was driving teen2 to work a P-Plate (Probationary) driver driver came off the highway (100km/hr zone) and didn't slow enough as he came into the round-a-bout.  Hubby was going fairly slow and saw this young man going way too fast. Hubs realised the P-Plate driver wasn't going to stop. Hubby braked and swerved to the right crossing into the lane next to him. The young  P-Plate driver came flying through the roundabout and hubby doesn't know how the cars didn't collide as the other car then crossed the lanes and exited on the wrong side before taking off.

There was a couple riding a Harley Davidson motorbike in the lane next to hubby and they also saw it happen and were able to brake but still hit the drivers side of our car.

Thankfully no one was hurt. It could have been really bad. If hubby hadn't acted fast the young p plater would have hit our car at considerable speed on the passenger side where our daughter was sitting and also the passenger side engine area. Thankfully the Harley rider and his passenger were also ok. He managed to stop to and neither of them came off the bike. They were both wearing full protective gear too.

It really shook our daughter up.  She realised just how close she came to being seriously injured and how fast it can all happen. Hubby says that at the speed and angle where it would have impacted if not for his actions, it would have written off our new car and possibly teen2 too.  We are all still in a bit of shock about it all.

Another thing for which we are grateful - we have full insurance with hire car so tomorrow our car will go in to be assessed and repaired and we will have another car while this all happens. I will get to experience the insurance process from the other side.

There is remarkably little damage to our car. The bike only just connected and at slow speed as both the rider and hubby were able to come to a stop.

Yep minimal damage. The door wont open fully as it is catching on the front guard.
There is also a large scratch on the window and a scuff on the wing mirror as well as some other scuffing on the door and guard.

Oh and if you are wondering what the red reflections is... it is our mover in the back ground. We had our first fine day in about 3 weeks and the moving finally got done. the yard is still quite wet and sloshy - the ground just can't absorb any more water.

When hubby came to a stop he looked out the window and saw something like this...

 Hubs said his first thought was "Oh hell! I've hit a Hell's Angel."

I would have loved to have seen the expression on his face at that moment. Somehow he managed to have the first words out of his mouth as "Are your hurt?" instead of "Are you going to kill me?"

Turns out our Harley rider wasn't a Hells Angel (no apostrophe in Hells 'cause education is over rated when you are a serious biker-thug) but was a keen motorcyclist with a regular job.