Just caught a car!

jobdone1

I think the other course of action is where their is blame their is a claim, But as with my car and my wife's i am a nightmare when it comes to putting the hand brake on her 206 Peugeot because my scenic has an electronic hand brake so when i press the stop button the hand brake is applied now you can see why my wife's car has little hope of survival LOL
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gycraig_2

i had similair.

was delivering pizzas on a hill put my hand break on went to the door got my money turned round to see my car rolling down the hill towards a expensive looking range rover.

had to chase it and luckily managed to slam my breaks on in time

InsideInsurance

worried_jim wrote: »

Did she chuff.- did say thanks though, which for the South Coast is a miracle in its self.

Just wait for the court summons to turn up for the damage you did to the vehicle when you caught it

Robisere

Had a similar experience, different ending, when I lived at the top of a hill. I was having a conversation with a good friend and neighbour, when an irate guy from over the road came across to have words with my mate. This man was a real PITA, no one on the street liked him, he caused alarm and despondency with everyone. He spent about 10 minutes berating my mate for leaving HIS car an inch or two over the edge of his (very wide) driveway, getting more and more agitated and red in the face, spittle flying from his overworked mouth.

Meanwhile, his car was rolling slowly, gathering speed, down his inclined driveway and I attempted to interrupt and tell him "NONE OF YOUR ******* BUSINESS! GET YER ******* NOSE OUT!" was the reply. I looked at my mate, he looked at me, we shrugged and waited. The car, now going quite fast, struck at an angle between his front window and door. The door was badly damaged and the window, a very low patio window & frame, was pushed in at the corner and sagged inwards, breaking frame and glass.

I honestly thought the guy was going to have a stroke or heart attack, he was speechless for a minute, then ran down to scream at the car, apparently blaming it for not applying its own handbrake. By now, other neighbours were out to look at the fun. My mate and I were holding each other up, tears of laughter streaming down our faces. I was reminded of John Cleese hitting his car wit a tree branch in "Clockwise", which made me laugh harder.

I have never witnessed natural justice applied so satisfactorily, it was a fitting conclusion to a nasty situation, created by an equally nasty person.

The nasty one and his long-suffering wife, left soon after and the street became a whole lot friendlier. I moved some years later, but when I occasionally phone my old mate, we often bring up that day.

Lum

I've done this once, though in my defence it was a hire car (Seat Exeo) with an electronic handbrake and I'm pretty certain I put it on. A friendly motorcyclist caught it for me.

I started leaving the car in gear when parked after that incident and decided I'd never own a car with an electronic handbrake. Worst invention ever.

jobdone1

Robisere wrote: »

Had a similar experience, different ending, when I lived at the top of a hill. I was having a conversation with a good friend and neighbour, when an irate guy from over the road came across to have words with my mate. This man was a real PITA, no one on the street liked him, he caused alarm and despondency with everyone. He spent about 10 minutes berating my mate for leaving HIS car an inch or two over the edge of his (very wide) driveway, getting more and more agitated and red in the face, spittle flying from his overworked mouth.

Meanwhile, his car was rolling slowly, gathering speed, down his inclined driveway and I attempted to interrupt and tell him "NONE OF YOUR ******* BUSINESS! GET YER ******* NOSE OUT!" was the reply. I looked at my mate, he looked at me, we shrugged and waited. The car, now going quite fast, struck at an angle between his front window and door. The door was badly damaged and the window, a very low patio window & frame, was pushed in at the corner and sagged inwards, breaking frame and glass.

I honestly thought the guy was going to have a stroke or heart attack, he was speechless for a minute, then ran down to scream at the car, apparently blaming it for not applying its own handbrake. By now, other neighbours were out to look at the fun. My mate and I were holding each other up, tears of laughter streaming down our faces. I was reminded of John Cleese hitting his car wit a tree branch in "Clockwise", which made me laugh harder.

I have never witnessed natural justice applied so satisfactorily, it was a fitting conclusion to a nasty situation, created by an equally nasty person.

The nasty one and his long-suffering wife, left soon after and the street became a whole lot friendlier. I moved some years later, but when I occasionally phone my old mate, we often bring up that day.

I am crying with laughter, I would have love to have seen that what a stupid fool. classic.

DominicH

This reminds me of one of the most bizarre things I have ever witnessed. Our car was parked in the driveway, a slight incline that pointed towards next door's front garden. Standing in the lounge I happened to glance out at the car, and at that moment the handbrake mysteriously disengaged. The car started rolling back towards the neighbour's garden. As it ploughed through their hedge and on to their lawn, I had visions of it reaching terminal velocity and smashing into the house at the bottom of the hill.

Fortunately, the encounter with the hedge imparted a slight turn to the front wheels, and the car arced across the lawn, through the other hedge, straight across the road hitting the kerbs at some speed, and through another neighbour's hedge before coming serenely to rest a couple of feet short of their kitchen door.

I watched all this in open-mouthed horror, but there was remarkably little damage to anything, the car or the hedges. We drove the car back out the way it came, and made sure we left it in gear when we parked it. The second neighbours were abroad at the time, and would never had known about the incident had we not told them.

I still wonder sometimes if I dreamt it or it really happened, but it did. Wish I'd filmed it.

Hadrian

On a day trip years ago to Harrogate I was looking in a shop window, near the big stone monument, on the road leading north (to Ripon?) which has a terrifyingly steep incline. In the reflection in the window I saw a car very slowly going from my left to right just behind me. The break of slope to the start of the steep bit was only a few meters, the car was accelerating. I looked around and to my horror the car was speeding up and in a couple of seconds would have started down the hill. The only course I could take was to dash to the front of the car and try to hold it stationary.
I managed to do this OK but was being pushed along with the car down the hill. I screamed, literally, to people around and most of them simply looked interestedly at me but did NOTHING! After what seemed an eternity a guy ran to my help from the other side of the road.
The car door was open, the handbrake was then engaged and I and my helper breathed a sigh of great relief.
Had I not seen the car moving, in 2 seconds, no more, the car would have started down the steep hill unstoppable and God only knows what damage and most likely deaths would have resulted.
The person who's car it was most probably would never have known what a disaster I had avoided. After all these years I'm still annoyed at the driver of this car. :mad:

Avoriaz

Lum wrote: »

I've done this once, though in my defence it was a hire car (Seat Exeo) with an electronic handbrake and I'm pretty certain I put it on. A friendly motorcyclist caught it for me.

I started leaving the car in gear when parked after that incident and decided I'd never own a car with an electronic handbrake. Worst invention ever.

I always leave mine in gear.

In California, especially San Francisco which is full of steep hills, they have strict laws on parking.

If you're parking in San Francisco or other hilly urban and suburban areas, you must turn your front wheels into the curb in such a manner that if the car's brakes fail, the car won't roll down the hill out of control. This is a legal requirement and you can be fined for not doing this on any slope greater than about 3% in San Francisco (the details vary from city to city). Alternatively, if there is no curb, you should use blocks (or something similar) behind or in front of the wheels.