Hey,
So i was travelling down to pune on sunday from bombay, and all of a sudden it started pouring (really hard rain, it felt like 26/7). Anyway, we get off the expressway and continue travelling on the national highway till Kothrud (instead of turning in left to enter Aundh at pune).
About 7 km down the road (after the bangalore highway) there was this HUGE traffic pile up (for about 1 km) cuz there was flooding on the road. Bumper to bumper traffic on a highway is a nightmare, even more so when you can't flip onto the other side of the road because of barriers. So i got in queue like everyone else.
I have a habit of keeping my foot pressed on the brake while waiting so i guess that's a really good thing (read on to know why).
All of a sudden, while i'm stationary, this truck comes and whacks into me from behind!!! IN POURING RAIN! I had my brake lights on, my hazard lights on, and still this blind *&%$ whacks into me - REAL hard. The rear glass shatters and flies. I turn around and see the truck driver abandon his truck and run away (he probably did this cuz he thought he killed someone).
There were 4 of us in the car (and my dog) and thankfully no one was hurt. But now everyone in the backseat was getting wet as it was pouring!! Anyway, i get out of the car to assess the damage, and the tail lights are busted (but all electricals work), the rear bumper is messed, the dicky hatch is screwed, and even the top of the the roof was messed (that we noticed later when we tried to open the boot). Overall, the car was bajaoed in stile (pun intended).
Anyway, i had the presence of mind to take photographs of the truck that whacked me (although i haven't filed a complaint as yet). I was also lucky that i had my foot pressed hard on the brake otherwise we'd have got sandwiched between cars and there could've been a fatality.
Now bad got to worse -
We had to wait in that pouring rain with a busted car for 2 hours!! No one was gonna come to help in such rain. After the 2 hour wait, we noticed that there was 2 foot deep water ahead - and the locals had come to help, they were just allowing big cars (scorpios etc) go through.
So i decided to watch - scorpios got through without any problem as did tata safari's. Then i saw an accent try - poor guy got messed up and had to be push out of the way. Then i saw a Swift go through, that was the moment of truth - anything a swift can do, a palio 1.6 stile can do better
!!
So i went through it - no problems. Of course since the dicky was messed up we got a little bit of water in the car, but not too bad. Got home to pune with a 3 hour delay.
THe next day i took the car to the reliance cashless garage there, and within 4 hours the surveyor came and okay'd the damages and asked the garage owner to start work. I am still to get an estimate will keep the thread posted.
Here are some pics of the car.
And also of the *&$% truck driver who whacked into me!!!
