call me columbo!!
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:45 pm
after last nights fun at knockhill i was heading home to clydebank along the clydeside expressway about 1130.
as you come to the brow of the hill that's just before the SECC i saw a smashed up looking vectra facing backwards down the road.
i pulled in to see that the driver was ok and i asked him what had happened.
he explained that 5 minutes ago as he was driving in lane1 someone smashed into the driverside front wing and sent him into a spin which resulted in the complete removal of his front bumper plus a lot more damage.
i asked if he knew what kind of car in was or if he could remember anything but the only thing he could recall was that it was a big car and that he'd seen it fishtail down the road after it had hit him.as we were waiting for the fire brigade to turn up a passing car kicked up a piece of metal.i picked it up and had a look at what it was,and i could tell that it was a piece of alloy wheel.i had a lookat the stricken vectra and saw that it did not have alloy wheels.
when the FB arrived i took the guys phone number and said i'd drive down the road to see whether i could spot any shady lookin cars.
as i drove away i could see a thin black line on the road surface that looked like either a rubber mark or maybe fluid so i decided to follow the trail.
it leadme into the SECC car park area where 100 yards from the exit i could see a car parked.i approached slowly to see if anyone was in the car,it was empty,then i pulled in front of it and got out my car.
i briefly left the keys in the ignition but thought better of it as i realised i was right beside heavy trees and some 'opportunist' could easily claim my car as their transport home for the evening seen as they had abandoned their own!
i looked round the car and you could see very obvious damage on the passenger side front wing,alloy was a bit mangled,tyre barely on and front bumper a bit scraped.i took the details of the car,make,model,reg number and i also took a couple of photos with my camera phone.
after this...and while keeping a close eye on the trees,(i had a vision in my head at one point of this->
)
i proceeded going back round to the crash site to give the details to the local plod.think they thought i was a tosser at first when i pulled up in the teg
hope it all gets sorted for the guy as he was really shaken up and i image that to be a horrible thing.i've crashed before and its not nice but it must be worse if someone just hits you when you're going about your own business.
anyway....i feel like a detective now....think i'll change my name to columbo
as you come to the brow of the hill that's just before the SECC i saw a smashed up looking vectra facing backwards down the road.
i pulled in to see that the driver was ok and i asked him what had happened.
he explained that 5 minutes ago as he was driving in lane1 someone smashed into the driverside front wing and sent him into a spin which resulted in the complete removal of his front bumper plus a lot more damage.
i asked if he knew what kind of car in was or if he could remember anything but the only thing he could recall was that it was a big car and that he'd seen it fishtail down the road after it had hit him.as we were waiting for the fire brigade to turn up a passing car kicked up a piece of metal.i picked it up and had a look at what it was,and i could tell that it was a piece of alloy wheel.i had a lookat the stricken vectra and saw that it did not have alloy wheels.
when the FB arrived i took the guys phone number and said i'd drive down the road to see whether i could spot any shady lookin cars.
as i drove away i could see a thin black line on the road surface that looked like either a rubber mark or maybe fluid so i decided to follow the trail.
it leadme into the SECC car park area where 100 yards from the exit i could see a car parked.i approached slowly to see if anyone was in the car,it was empty,then i pulled in front of it and got out my car.
i briefly left the keys in the ignition but thought better of it as i realised i was right beside heavy trees and some 'opportunist' could easily claim my car as their transport home for the evening seen as they had abandoned their own!
i looked round the car and you could see very obvious damage on the passenger side front wing,alloy was a bit mangled,tyre barely on and front bumper a bit scraped.i took the details of the car,make,model,reg number and i also took a couple of photos with my camera phone.
after this...and while keeping a close eye on the trees,(i had a vision in my head at one point of this->
)i proceeded going back round to the crash site to give the details to the local plod.think they thought i was a tosser at first when i pulled up in the teg
hope it all gets sorted for the guy as he was really shaken up and i image that to be a horrible thing.i've crashed before and its not nice but it must be worse if someone just hits you when you're going about your own business.
anyway....i feel like a detective now....think i'll change my name to columbo
