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[Closed] My first car accident this morning

molgrips · 2010-06-08T10:30:19Z

I was driving the Passat which is an automatic - for those of you that haven't driven one, when you take your foot off the brake pedal they creep forward, which is great for traffic queues etc, but it does require to you have your foot ON the pedal all the time to keep the car stopped (I expect you can see where this is going). To help with this the car is equipped with an auto-hold function activated by a button on the centre console, which means that once you stop, it applies the brakes lightly until you press the accelerator again, removing the need to have your foot on the brake all the time. This morning there was something rattling loudly in the passenger side door pocket, so rather than try and move it whilst driving I pulled up at the lights, hit the button and then leant over quickly to mess around with whatever it was. However I must not've been completely stopped because whilst I had my head down the car crept forward. I noticed just at the last second and jabbed the brake, but not soon enough to avoid hitting the car in front! It was a lady driver, fat and smoking, but (according to STW morality) in spite of all that she was super nice and extremely good natured. Helped I suppose by the fact that it was a very tiny nudge which left no evidence on either car... Still, I was pretty upset with myself.

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Obi_Twa

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Surf-mat - you sure you learnt that in cop training? Just that the tyres on tarmac thing is standard teaching for noobs.

17yrs and no fault crashes btw.

Posted : 10/06/2010 6:07 pm

runswithscissors

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'twas karma, you should've paid your mayhem fee as promised last year!

Posted : 10/06/2010 10:40 pm

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