What to put on the insurance claim form?

[yachtie10]

Dude sorry for the sarcasm but my 6 year old can do that simple maths. ---- A bike is travelling at 80km/h and a truck going the opposite direction is doing 80km/h what is their closing speed?

I wasnt having a go at you but for you to say that a truck with a house on the back covering the whole road to be doing 80 km/h is hard to believe. Especially coming up to a sweeper
happy to take your word for it
if so why wouldnt you make a complaint to police as they could have taken many lives with behaviour like that.
and yes I can add

[FROSTY:Me]

yea that thought did occur. Then Im thinking "hang on the damb thing took up the entire road" surelyy the cops should have been involved when traffic in both directions in effect shoulda been stopped. BUT YEA I agree i shgoulda stopped in Camebridge for a rest instead of pressing on for home

[Smifffy]

“7.2(6) If an approaching vehicle or pedestrian is likely to encroach into the path of an overdimension motor vehicle, the operator of a pilot vehicle must take all practicable steps to ensure that the driver of the approaching vehicle or the pedestrian is warned of the likely hazard so that the person has sufficient time to comply with the operator’s instruction.”

http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/ru...ment-2007.html

[Jantar]

Yes, Houses can be a menace on the road. in 2001 our house hit a power pole and took out power to 980 properties. I'm glad we had comprehensive house insurance.

[caseye]

Glad to be able to say I;m glad you are Ok Frosty.
Pity you couldn't have got a picture.
Though it's a little unusual it doesn't top our old Dodgyiti's being HIT BY A BOAT and there was pictures for that one, I took em.
Heads up1 ah I mean down, ah hell who knows anymore.
Gives new meaning to the term"roadhouse"

[pc220]

Yip S.H 1 in the wee small hours belongs to the trucks. General rule of thumb, if I see those yellow flashing lights I take a detour because something big and slow is in the way.

[Swoop]

They certainly do not hang about!
I have seen a house doing around 90kmh up past Kumeu one very early morning!

[Ratti]

I have seen a house doing around 90kmh up past Kumeu one very early morning!

what had you been smoking the night before?

rotflmho

[Swoop]

what had you been smoking the night before?

rotflmho

...I was waiting for a response like that...
Caught me out as I was heading in the same direction. Those things are a bastard to overtake since they are taking up most of the road!

In the weeeee hours it does make you stop and go "wtf!"

[varminter]

Insurance company wouldn't miss a beat, they've hear it all before. Once put in a claim for broken glasses, said I dropped a sheep on them in the coal cellar (all true) and no comment was made.

[Ratti]

OOOOOOOOO M G

the mind boggles, well mine does anyway..o go on tell us how..unless it would get you arrested.

[caseye]

RATTI! thats enough,LOL yeah I think this might just be one of those priceless stories.

[roadracingoldfart]

Ive seen the house trucks in the Wairarapa up SH2 doing a good 80 - 90 kmh at night. I was in a layby with a young lady and i had a view of the road shall we say , i didnt dare mention it as im sure it would have sounded a bit weird (and i liked that lady) . I did cast a quick look at the handbrake , just in case it was me doing the moving.
Imagine it ,
"hey , did you see that house go by just then " ,
(answer)
"ohhh ahhh ohhh ahhh no what colour was it and can you take me home now "!!!!!

[Naki Rat]

I remember that happened just outside New Plymouth in the mid 70's but there was a pillion passenger who didn't duck between the joists with the inevitable terminal outcome. Those houses can be nasty.

The "terminal outcome" in that case was a decapitation. Not pleasant for the person who found the 'discarded helmet' as I remember.

And yes house movers tend not to hang around at that time of the night

[mynameis]

Hello I am Bond Frosty Bond.