I had a dream the other night in which I had to sort out lots of stupid data in the middle of the road after a minor traffic accident. I didn´t mention it to she-who-must-be-obeyed, as she doesn't like stuff like that- especially as it came true this morning.
Luckily not in the middle of the road, but the paper-hassle is just enormous, even when someone runs into your parked car.
I had nipped into the village to buy some hardware and popped into the chemist / farmacia as I had just renewed all my meds and saw online that one of them was available for collection. The girl who was serving me suddenly went all wide-eyed looking over my shoulder - at the same time as a crunching sound reached my ears.
Luckily I had grabbed the reserved parking space for customers (so was in the right), but this lady had decided to park on the pavement next to me - well partly on the pavement and partly into my car..
She said all the usual about never having done this before, but it was maybe it was more a case of never having been seen to do this before as her LandRover of 20 years wasn't exactly pristine.
As you can see, it was more than just a scrape on mine - which probably needs a new wing and a load of work on the door. Which leads to the next problem where my insurance company say they don't work with the main Nissan dealer and the dealer says they don't work with Linea Directa. Hopefully that will be unimportant, as her insurance should be paying anyway (but it may mean I have to get another quote to the one I am getting tomorrow morning from Nissan.)
Just buggeration really.
Back to the paperwork - they give you a form to get all the details and my dream / nightmare was about trying to do this in traffic in the middle of the road (as the spanish police say you shouldn't move the car). In quiet circumstances we spent 15 minutes swapping information - and in the end (afterwards) I realised she had failed to sign the form as I had asked her! My fault not to have checked, but the data required is just crazy.On the phone to Linea Directa immediately afterwards and he was asking for reg number, age and colour - all of which I had to get from photos. I actually filled most of the the form in afterwards based on the pictures I took of her papers on my mobile.
Anyway, that should keep me busy for a couple of weeks - especially trying find people who actually work during August - not something the spanish workers enjoy.
If nothing else, I have learned that there is only one thing that you really need apart from all the photos, and that is the signature to say it was their fault. Hmmm.
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