Progress (of sorts)
Jan. 31st, 2023 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThis morning the low-loader arrived to take our damaged car to the workshop, to await attention. The workshop initially pleaded that they were too busy to deal with our var immediately, so we were quite pleased to talk them round even this far: less pleased when the low-loader got the car on board and promptly broke down, but you can't win them all...
It has also been conceded that we are entitled to a courtesy car as soon as the rental company at the top of the hill has one available. The garage originally offered us a car as soon as they had time to look at the damage and agree it was repairable, so this is better, and we are hopeful of having something in the next day or so. We were both a bit disconcerted by the possibility that the car might be written off, and can't work out whether this is just garages being non-committal or a real possibility, so we look forward to the workshop giving us a more definite assessment.
Our house insurance will send an assessor on Thursday morning.
We - and that's moredurham_rambler than me - spent a fair amoint of the weekend talking to neighbours, which is probably a good thing in a general sort of way. So we have been visited by the student from two doors down, whose car was hit, though no-one seems to know which of the two out-of-control cars hit it; we learn that the man across the road whose people carrier was hit saw the whole thing (his professional opinion, apparently, is that anti-skid road surfacing is available and the council should use it); a visit from driver number one reveals that he lives at the top of the hill, so this was not a story of someone unfamiliar with the road using it as a short cut; also that having been taken to hospital in an ambulance, he returned with a number of stitches in his face - and that the police have revised their position from "no further action because it was damage to property only" to "no further action because no-one was to blame."
It has also been conceded that we are entitled to a courtesy car as soon as the rental company at the top of the hill has one available. The garage originally offered us a car as soon as they had time to look at the damage and agree it was repairable, so this is better, and we are hopeful of having something in the next day or so. We were both a bit disconcerted by the possibility that the car might be written off, and can't work out whether this is just garages being non-committal or a real possibility, so we look forward to the workshop giving us a more definite assessment.
Our house insurance will send an assessor on Thursday morning.
We - and that's more
durham_rambler than me - spent a fair amoint of the weekend talking to neighbours, which is probably a good thing in a general sort of way. So we have been visited by the student from two doors down, whose car was hit, though no-one seems to know which of the two out-of-control cars hit it; we learn that the man across the road whose people carrier was hit saw the whole thing (his professional opinion, apparently, is that anti-skid road surfacing is available and the council should use it); a visit from driver number one reveals that he lives at the top of the hill, so this was not a story of someone unfamiliar with the road using it as a short cut; also that having been taken to hospital in an ambulance, he returned with a number of stitches in his face - and that the police have revised their position from "no further action because it was damage to property only" to "no further action because no-one was to blame."
