Car written off on Upland Road last night

[tomskip]

Hi Forum,

Just posting on the remotest off chance anyone saw or heard the smash that resulted in my parked car being written off last night. It was at about 11.20pm, outside no. 314 Upland Road. Heard a vehicle driving hard and fast up the hill, then heard a bang, went outside and my poor old much-loved Citroen has been completely scraped along one side, rear bumper completely off, wing mirror on the road.

Later on, maybe it was just my imagination, I could have sworn I heard joy riding type noises a bit further south in the area - maybe on Lordship Lane or Dunstans, Overhill, Mount Adon Park kind of area? Did anyone else?

Needless to say please contact me if you can add anything to this sorry tale. I have a feeling I've read about other cars in SE22 being mindlessly smashed into overnight in the past couple of weeks. Perhaps someone is doing it for laughs?

Speaking to my insurers this morning they more or less told me not to bother reporting to the police!

[Lowlander]

Sorry to hear that - ignore the person you spoke to at your insurer though and report it to the police asap - the insurer call handler may just be woefully naive.

There may be a nugget of intelligence the police could use. Or at the least it will show up in statistics and highlight the problem...

[tomskip]

Yes, I will report to the police.

[Ruskin]

Sorry to hear about your car. I don't live near you but look out every morning to see if ours is still intact.

[PipD]

We heard it! I can't help though, sorry. We heard the bang but by the time I'd got to the front window I couldn't see anything apart from some foxes going crazy - I assumed they had been fighting and knocked over a bin or something. I somehow didn't notice your car with it's bumper hanging off!

I would normally have been in our front room at that time and could have been more useful but our 5 year old is currently scared of burglars (she hasn't been reading the forum, our car was broken into recently) had woken and I was having to lie under her bed until she fell back to sleep!

Phil

[wayne10]

Unfortunate things happen! I feel for you!