today is a bad day, had an accident 20 minutes ago.
coming home down springvale road and it was pissing down all of a sudden.
turn into road to my house and accellerate and lost all traction in front wheels and smacked a 300zx on the other side of the road.
It happened in one second, my froint right side connected to the 300zx front panel, took out his side mirror and quite a bit of paint.
I didn't want this to happen, and i was just thinking "what am i gonna do, what am i gonna do???"
So i got out, not a happy face, the guy was so cut, i could tell he could barely keep his steam.
i yell out "Are you ok mate?" Are you alright?"
His answer is "You idiot, what do you think you were doing? You wrecked my car!"
I'm spluttering sorry, it was an accident, road was wet. And he continues being full on abusive. I can't say anything cos its clearly my fault. Why did i have to hit a performance car....?
Gave him my license and pen paper. He kept on swearing that the pen was no good, no ink or some shit.
To top it off who comes around the corner but my dad. I waved him over, its all over now....
My dad asks me did i give him my license and if i took his. I said yep trying to anticipate his reaction.
the top bloke finally takes down my details, he even rings up vicroads to see if i have a valid license.
Well i want to cut things short, the guy finally left, not very happy, even swearing in front of my dad. I'm not exactly happy either. I drive 2 minutes and arrive home soaking wet from standing in the rain.
Damage to the car is pretty bad. Right headlight is gone, so is the quarter panel (if you can imagine what cheese looks like grated? thats what my front panel looks like, grated against the 300zx), driver door doesn't open properly (have to yank it and it makes a deep groaning noise), front bar is falling off, can see the internals of engine, surprisingly the bonnet looks ok.
FAAARK im just so shaken up and couldn't believe it happened. I want to cry but i can't. I know most people get accidents at least once in their life, i didn't believe that was true till today. While i was driving my mind was in a haze, i guess i was tired from work and thinking about other prospects. Its not a good day.
P.S can anyone plz tell me how the procedure goes in making a claim thru insurance. I have no experience in this and i really need your help.