damaged car supermarket carpark

cajef

Friend of mine once hit a tree that jumped into the road, mind you it was before the days of the breathalyser.:D

oldagetraveller

"as I had checked all my mirrors before reversing." There's most of your problem o.p.. Possibly, when you were walking back to your car you should have noticed there was a block of concrete and thought, note to myself, there's a block of concrete there which I must avoid when I reverse out of this space.
Seems to be a modern day phenomenon. Mirrors are relied on too much and some people just rely on what they can see in their mirrors rather than observe the surroundings using their eyes. It's amazing what can be seen with them rather than only what shows in the mirrors.
I often see car drivers reversing and staring intently in the door mirrors only, without even looking round first and during the manoeuvre out of those pieces of glass called windows.

BeenThroughItAll

oldagetraveller wrote: »

"as I had checked all my mirrors before reversing." There's most of your problem o.p.. Possibly, when you were walking back to your car you should have noticed there was a block of concrete and thought, note to myself, there's a block of concrete there which I must avoid when I reverse out of this space.
Seems to be a modern day phenomenon. Mirrors are relied on too much and some people just rely on what they can see in their mirrors rather than observe the surroundings using their eyes. It's amazing what can be seen with them rather than only what shows in the mirrors.
I often see car drivers reversing and staring intently in the door mirrors only, without even looking round first and during the manoeuvre out of those pieces of glass called windows.

A phenomenon made all the worse by parking sensors (I don't need to look behind me at all now) and reversing cameras (I don't even need to use the mirrors, just stare at the little screen in the middle of the dashboard).

AdrianC

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

A phenomenon made all the worse by parking sensors (I don't need to look behind me at all now) and reversing cameras (I don't even need to use the mirrors, just stare at the little screen in the middle of the dashboard).

...and teeny-weeny windows with mahoosively thick pillars (even if I look, I can't see anything - but they're safer...)

almillar

The concrete block was positioned on the hatched pedestrian route

Don't want to pile in on OP, but - was it not there when you drove in?
And as others have said, you shouldn't have been driving in a pedestrian zone into/out of a nice wide space.

robbies_gal

fair enough about the wide bays i dont use them-but in my local car park you'll be very lucky to find anywhere there that someone doesntpark directly next to you

takman wrote: »

The OP was in a Child and Parent bay which have extra room either side of the car.

But even if your parking in a normal space all you need to do is park away from other cars so you will have plenty of room to loan the bags into the boot. This also means your less likely to have your car damaged by other drivers opening their door or reversing into you.

But I personally so my shopping when the supermarket is quiet such as late at night on a weekday so there are not many cars there. I'm always surprised at how many people waste their weekends by doing shipping during the day on a Saturday or Sunday!

dannyrst

The OP has gone to another forum to ask the same question to see if they can find the answer there, as nobody has sided with them here.

Silver-Surfer_2

dannyrst wrote: »

The OP has gone to another forum to ask the same question to see if they can find the answer there, as nobody has sided with them here.

No doubt they wanted to hear how they had a claim worth thousands.

dannyrst

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

No doubt they wanted to hear how they had a claim worth thousands.

Including whiplash for another few grand.

AdrianC

dannyrst wrote: »

The OP has gone to another forum to ask the same question to see if they can find the answer there, as nobody has sided with them here.

Oh, bless. Link?