discomog wrote:

.........and this is what they said in the Defender Brochure in 2014:-

blackwolf wrote:

I imagine that the moron driving the other car was uninsured?

Glad you were OK, that was a pretty massive impact.

Thank you everyone for your words of support

The insurance was an interesting point. The driver is an Albanian National who was on the run from the police in London in relation to drug production and other matters. He pleaded guilty to no insurance at court. However, the car itself was actually insured. Cover had been taken out only a couple of weeks earlier. One monthly payment was made at the time. The cover was in the name of another Eastern European who neither the police nor the insurance company have been able to trace. Needless to say, the insurance instalments mysteriously stopped and whilst the car itself is nothing more than scrap value, no one ever came forward to report it stolen. Sounds a right can of worms but made easier for me since the other vehicle insurance company and my own insurers are one and the same.

spudfan wrote:

Peter I was unaware that that was a video of you and your Defender. I thought it was something pulled from YouTube. Glad the culprits were caught but I bet it was a trying experience waiting for justice to be done. You were honest and did not hammer the insurance for "whiplash" as others seem to do. You will be glad to get the Defender back. If the chassis had not deformed in some way there by absorbing some of the impact things may have been worse. The vehicle can be repaired because it is built as it is. The new Defender might not have been repaired as someone says the cost might have been deemed to great for the company. I am sure once "Peg" returns we will be treated to photos of the new lower regions. Yep I am drooling already.

No problem Spudfan. I didn’t make it clear it was me. Thank you for your kind words Peter

discomog wrote:

One of the senior members of the JLR engineering team?



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DSC-off wrote:

rockster57 wrote:

Fortunately I escaped totally unscathed.

Glad to hear it!

"likely deportation" this annoys the hell out of me. Only likely. Should be certainly, for any serious offence.

Total of 14 months incarceration isn’t a bad punishment on the face of it. This was the total for all the offences the guy was charged with including the drug production. His conviction also includes dangerous driving. Rightly so. What you don’t see on the video is his car had fully mounted the pavement after glancing off another innocent motorists car. A mother and daughter were walking on the pavement ahead of me. They were so close to disaster! The speed of impact into my Defender was estimated at over 60mph - in a rural 20 zone!

Due to covid, the magistrates court was presided over by a professional judge rather than the usual lay persons who in my experience are too easily influenced by smooth talking defence advocates into imposing unduly lenient sentences. That said, with deductions for time spent in court, time already spent in police custody, time on remand and the other deductions the public never get to hear about, the guy is likely to be out again in under 6 months. What happens in the immigration hearing, if they decide to pursue a deportation is anyone’s guess

Supacat wrote:

discomog wrote:

.........and this is what they said in the Defender Brochure in 2014:-

I recall seeing a slide from a JLR presentation showing length of service of the engineering team ~ most were in the 0 to 4 years bracket.

I did wonder at the time who were the custodians of the corporate memory?