As many of you will know, in June 2007 I was unfortunate enough to have a quite bad car crash. We were on our way to Go Karting as a end of exams trip and a guy in a red Fiesta drifted across the road and hit my car head on at a combined speed of about 100MPH. Fortunately everyone was (is now) okay from the accident. This accident in turn caused a smaller shunt further down the road. I promised in my old blog that I’d put up some photos of my car after the incident, however I never did - so I’ve included them now.

Ever since then there have been legal battles between a whole host of people who all claimed that it wasn’t their fault. At the same time, the police investigation (which had six months allowance to be concluded) was crawling along. At the end of November (26th to be precise) I was informed at last that the guy in the red Fiesta was to be taken to court on the charge of ‘driving without due care and attention’.

This court hearing took place on the 19th December at 9.30am at Aberystwyth Magistrates Court and I’ve finally heard from the Police that he pleaded guilty! This is excellent news as it now means two things:

• His claim that I was the cause of the accident to his insurance company is invalid (otherwise why would be plead guilty?)
• My insurance company will finally pay out my excess and give me back my no claims.

Overall a pretty good day.

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