Had a bump
 

Stopped at the junction , ford focus in front of me... looked to my left to pull out and notice the focus had gone to pull out... Floored it as i seen a gap.. must of been doing 40kph looked forward and "Oh sh*t shes still there"

Slammed on the brakes , ABS + slippy road = Bang

Both pulled to the side of the road and she got out.... woah she was fit haha . Impact marks all on the rear bumper on the focus , she called her boyfriend. He came over looked and pushed the bumper to check if it was cracked... All fine , said no problem , shook hands and apologized again... Both drove off.

Lucky escape :mario:

Surprised on how little damage the ZS suffered , some black marks which will polish out and a small paint crack on drivers side.

Lucky escape indeed.
Nice when something like this happens and the other party are genuine people. Not scum bags claiming whiplash, damaged car etc.

Got away with that one, as I bet if you hit it hard enough to deform the bumper the crash structure will have been compromised a bit.

Hate it when that happens though, as a result I have taught myself to wait until the car in front has gone, and miss the gap as it has happened to me a few times, but I was able to stop (just) in time!

boyfriend.....wounder !!

Maybe they didnt have insurance!!!

Back a few years, a friend got hit up the rear in his BMW. Young girl admitted it was her fault. Just a trace of a bolt head on the rear bumper of the new Beemer, he was going to let her go. Decided on getting her details, took it to the main dealers, crumple cans had gone. New bumper, new fixings, at a cost of nearly a thousand pounds!!!

Never think there is no damage.

:whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle:

I've always been careful when pulling out of junctions , the fact that me and my girlfriend had a argument over going for a BBQ a minute before didn't help lol

Lesson learnt and from now on ill keep an eye in my rear view mirror incase i get the same treatment :)

Glad to hear that no one was injured, and the cars seem to have withstood the small bump ok.

Done exactly that few days ago! expecting car infront to pull away as you would in their situation, but I forget not every car can pull away like a 180 can on a roundabout!

Exactly that! Got to the stage where the ZS feels slow as i've gotten use to it

I was expecting smashed bumper , bent bonnet , radiator gone but nope :mml:

Very lucky indeed, those sort of accidents are few and fair between when both drive off with no change of details.

That happened to me on the m25 I was going past an artic lorry which decided he wanted to be where I was, hit me pretty hard and we were doing about 50-60 both pulled over and I had a look at my car and all there was was a bit of paint on the b piller! We shook hands and carried on our journey. Tough little cars those mk3 fiestas!

Thing is in Spain people don't care about cosmetic condition of there cars , anyone who's been on holiday would have noticed nearly every car has a scratch or bump.

It's a legal law to bump bumpers when parking , simply because they are made for bumping lol

Yes indeed, I have had that happen a number of times where people start to pull off then jump on the brakes. Meanwhile you are looking right to get a gap. Now I focus on the car in front then deal with the gap!

I had a similar experience back in my old rover 200, luckily the civic I drove in to, had been in an accident earlier that week and the rear was smashed up already. Guy said not to worry it's going in to be fixed tomorrow! :)

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