not a good day. gutted in fact.

[TADO]

this morning i spent fiddling around with the car, doing a few very last jobs ahead of next months mot and then gave it a good polish and wax.
katie and i decided to head out to the peaks for a drive and to take some nice pics. heading out of sheffield on the main a-road we were doing about 35, maybe 40mph.
theres a well known cross roads with stop signs on both sides. as we approached it an FRV pulled out of the side road and in front of us causing us to slam the breaks on hard. on the other side of the crossroads was a volvo also at the stop sign. at this point we were almost on the junction... when he pulled straight out without looking with about 5 metres between us.
we hit him straight into the side. at a guess we were doing about 25-30 having breaked hard because of the FRV pulling out (thank goodness).
the volvos spun round and ended up in a fence. we came to a very abrupt stop in the middle of the road.
once we'd worked out we were both ok we couldnt believe what had happened. fortunately the chap was very good about it and adimitted full responsibility. there was also a second car on the other side of the crossroads who saw everything and they are going to be a witness.

beat-wise, looking at it things dont look too good. we couldnt get the bonnet up at the time to see as its wedged between the wipers, and the recovery guy commented that one of the tow-hooks looked pretty fubarbed which im guessing means things might be a bit bent under there. wheels seem pretty straight from what i can tell and of course its running fine.
we've got everything crossed now and will have to see what adrian flux have to say in the morning.
right now we're both feeling totally gutted but very very glad that we are ok. had we not had to slam the breaks on for the other car, we would have been going quite a bit faster and it could have been a lot lot worse.

as most of you know, the car has a huge amount of sentimental value, time invested and money spent and was pretty much just where we wanted it to be after 3 years... so we really really hope we can get him sorted...

[TADO]

couple more. this is the sort of hole a beat makes in the side of a volvo.

[Mylee]

Sh!t Mike, really really feel for ya. Especially after the great effort you've gone to recently. As you know, I know how it feels

Glad you are both ok though, that is the most important thing after all.
Just don't take any crap from the insurance, this isn't your run of the mill 'ford focus'. You use a specialist insurer for a reason

Keep us all posted.

[Gavin]

crap glad you are ok mike! flux are pretty good when it comes to like for like repair / replacement

[hothybrids]

That's a sad sight.... I feel for you buddy...

[s8rah]

Gutted for you. Glad you're OK & hope AF can sort it quickly.