OUCH...first my first traffic accident!! :(

bloody?...where,where?

very true Uk and its a bloody scary reality..

Every day you return to and from work home safely is due to pure luck and not good driving alone..lol.

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sadly no eyes in the back, rear view mirrors or helemts will help in doha, just luck...

There is a new helmet designed especially for bikers (motor bike) and is availabe to buy that lets you see in the back as you can see in the back with you car mirror..

May in the future we have option to have operation to put eyes in the back of our head..lol

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HE WHO DARES WINS

lol Uk, i didnt say you can get, i said you need.. :-)

Please explain...lol

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oh lovely scarlett had an accident, im glad it was minor and your okay. Its a pain to drive in Doha, you not only need to be a mind reader but you need eyes at the back of your head.

Sorry to hear that you had an accident on the other hand congralutions that you have the majority of us and not in th minority.. Good luck with the Insurance Traffic Police, Repairing of the vehicle (that means carless for at least one week).

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Just had my first accident, when this stupid Filipino woman reversed into me while I was passing by. then claimed I had driven into her, she called her Nauseating aussie male friend, who started to argue with me, what a plonker.

Anyway luckly for me the police knew it was clear from the damage whom was to blame.

But got this paper work which I can't read, and I have to get some stamps, and phone Qatar insurance, then I will have to take it to get repaired, such a hassle.

I don't mind being called a beautiful car...been told I have a nice front bumper before! :) (the rear one needs a bit of work tho!!) Hey, haven't put on the decal yet, but will try to do that tomorrow..I love that one!! I think I need a few like we were talking about that night at the Silver Cafe...only then everyone would run into everyone else because they'd be reading my car!!

Drac does great with fasting during Ramadan as he can't go out when the sun is shining, so can't eat anyway!!!

Oryx..I had to to the police at Al Rayyan...and they were nice enough except the guy who takes the money..he was an azz when I was trying to find out WHY I had to pay for stamps..

Thanks once again everyone for the well wishes..and yes, I always thank God for keeping me safe..My guardian angel was working overtime yesterday!

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.

I feel for you. Are you shaken up?! I have driven twice now into Doha and have yet to venture from Dukhan side further than Villagio/ Hyatt.

I think though that I'm still a menace through my sheer inexperience of driving Qatar style!

I wish newbies like me could have some sort of plate like a big feckoff 'I don't know what the guff I'm doing or where I'm supposed to go and WHEN- so please get the MF OFF MY ASS and stop peeping me' plate (although I think L or P has a much more catchy ring than 'F*** Off You're scaring the crap out of me.'

I saw some guy in a huge 4x4 doing the most amazing move the other day. It would have made me positively horny if we were playing on Daytona, rather than having two small kids in the back of my hire car whilst having a Dukes of Hazzard face off. Tw**.

I really hope you're ok- and so he SHOULD be bloody helpful!

Blimey u on QL Greta Garbo

Maybe you should get a car that is a big and easy to see.

At least it was only a little damage and no injuries.

Glad you are ok though.

See you soon hopefully. : )

Call me Maninibat!

dracula has a "medical indication". Without regular blood supply he will cease to exist. He is exempt.

Drac-- im wondering if u also do some fasting! lol!=D

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

Thank God that your okay scarlett...

Give me his number plate and i'll suck his blood.Dry!..:)

Oh Scarlett poor you and you will get more annoyed....because yes the innocent party has to do all the running around... really exasperating!

but i found the police at madinat khalifa to be really helpful and the insurance people awful.

Alhamdulillah asalaam (=thank god you're OK!) Scarlett. Very sorry to hear you had an accident :( Glad you're allright :)

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Thank God you are safe

The car can be repaired

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Nevertheless ur still lucky & need to thank God because ur safe!

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

you are ok and nothing serious happened. It's been a while since the last time I heard from you, but thank god that it is still good news that you are ok.

Car's bumpers do come and do go, cars can always be fixed and if not we still can buy new ones ... It is the person's life that matters ...

Congrats again for your safety ...

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Gautama Buddha)

No, certainly not PH! Teaching is up there near the top of my "jobs I'd never do" list, plus as I said my English is not good!

There are people on here who put me to shame, and English is their second or third language!

I empathize greatly as my brand new SUV got a pretty big boo boo a couple of weeks ago. I was stopped at a light on C ring road and watched as the lady in front of me got cut off by a gentleman in a van. She gets out of her car and shouts and screams at him for a minute or so and then the light changed. Madam jumps back in her car and in her angry state, puts it in reverse and backs into me...KABOOM!!! We move the vehicles to the side and the police arrive..she tells them, in arabic, that I ran into her! Fortunately for me I have an arabic speaking colleage I was giving a lift to work with me. It's true when you get the first big bump on a new car, it's immediately just a car!

Tallg are you teaching english out there? lol

Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi

lol woops! Added the apostrophe by mistake.

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lol ! Now I'm not one to point out errors in people's english (I'm bad enough myself), but I do believe amnesia just called scarlett a 'beautiful car'. Part compliment, part insult!

Enjoy the industrial area Scarlett. It's always a pleasure!

Thank God your alright Scarlett!

May God make your situation easy for you! InshAllah ameen.

Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi

Oh no! You're beautiful car :(

Did you put your decal on yet?

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..and avoid the industrial area, the getaway to motorists hell!

**Sic dixit Zarathustra**

yes I will be very careful in the industrial area...and most of all...teena maria is right..please..everyone drive safely..put DOWN the cell phone, stop watching the kids in the back seat, whatever...and hopefully those BEHIND you will do the same so they don't hit you from behind!!!

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.

lol MD.. i would've done so,..only i didn't understand a word that came out of his big mouth... but i got annoyed when he had to open my side of the door when it was the driver that he has trouble with..he would've spared me the agony of getting a sniff of whatever he smells like.

I can't believe you said nothing. mjamille.

Drive safely all you folks!!!!!

im just glad that so far, my driver has never been in an accident while im in the car. although he did got into an argument with another driver yesterday during the dreadful traffic...

You can't teach experience...

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NIL ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM

for your concern and also the sense of humor!! i needed that!

Ok insurance went like silk today..office full of men waiting...but being female, just went right up and sat down and got the paperwork done..There's something to be said for being a female in this region of the country!!

Tomorrow will go and see what else Ihave to do in the industrial section at Toyota. I agree with all the wrecks lately..what's with that??? I mean the whole parking lot of the insurance company was totally full!!

Makes me wonder if they have any new bumpers left for my car!!!

PH..no thank God, I wasn't hurt at all..not even a headache..ok I did have one later but that was from just being ticked off about my new car...

MP...rear ending and rumple...PLEASE...not the two in the same sentence anywhere with a reference to me!!! Besides...from what I hear his equipment falls rather "short" anyway...

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.

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NIL ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM

Mr P, our minds clearly went on different directions ;)

husband would be not very pleased.

And you said i was jealous, not me.

I just mentioned it might have been Rumpel trying to kill her .....

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NIL ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM

I been seeing some really messed up cars on the side of the road lately...I mean ones where people don't live...

It must be Ramnadan???

You can't teach experience...

So why are you jealous of being rear ended?

;)

They are both blokes,so................Eeeewwwwwwwwww.

Not, i will never bat for the other side, im 100% male...

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NIL ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM

Jeez told you always keep your eyes on the roaaaaad not on the stereo and cell phone.

Good you didnt get much damage.

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Long story short, Dracula spent the night over at Skanky's.

And now that you're jealous of Scarlett being read ended... I can just assume you've switched teams.

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NIL ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM

:O

Mr P, are you playing on Skanky's team now?

Glad you're OK..

Cars can be fixed, It just takes a lot of hassle here..

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NIL ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM

It sounds like you're jealous, Mr Paul ;)

So are you okay Scarlett? No neck injuries or anything?

Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi

Hey, it could have been Rumpel, trying to do yer in .....

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i agree.. that's what killing me as well... why I AM the one who has to run everywhere to get the simplest things done?? and why i have to pay for the stamps (even 12 qr!) and for the parts (i didn't pay it yet, as my car is less then 1 year, but as i understood from the Insurance Company, next year i have to be prepared to pay 20-50% of the parts)??

sorry for bringing it again, but i can't help it, have to share my canadian experience of the accident (the ONLY one in 12 years of driving in Canada!). The girl hit my car from behind. It was not a major accident... ALL i had to do is just to write down her plates number, her Insurance company name and Policy number and to call my Insurance agent. That was it. Next day the guy from my insurance came right to my office door with the Insurance car. He left me that car for 1 week and drove my damaged car away. Then 1 week later, he brought my fixed car back to my office door (have no idea where it was fixed, what has been replaced, and how much it cost) and drove the Insurance car away instead. All expenses were paid by the Insurance of the girl who hit my car. This was THAT simple.

Here I had at least 4 accidents during my 1.5 year of driving… 2 of them the guys hit me, 2 of them someone damaged my car while it was parked on the parking lot. And all these times I had to spend a lot of my time, energy and nerves to get my car fixed. Also.. WHY on the earth I have to go to Industrial area?? And I have to go there 3 (THREE!!) time for 1 accident! First time to get a quotation. Then to bring my car for fixing, then to pick up my fixed car!! W-H-Y???? I consider it as a kind of punishment!! but why??

At least Honda tries to provide some kind of service.. well… not always successful, but at least they try!! Last time, when my car still was not ready in 2 weeks (!!), they gave me to drive their car instead, and then they brought my fixed car to my house door… that’s how it must be every time!!

That's a bummer, Scarlett... Glad it wasn't serious.

Chalk it up to the cost of doing business here.

Scarlett - Yes, and hence the argument, safety (large vehicle) or economy (higher risk).

My first accident was on Thursday :o(

Came off second best to a truck. Idiot nepalese turning right from the left lane cut across in front of me.

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tallg said..the victim has to do all the paintaking to get his papers from insurance and traffice dept...

Scarlett...good that you are safe and be this your last one...

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Anyone Can Die.

On my way home a few weeks back, my dad and I passed by this small round about and there's this guy just driving around and around.. LOL

I'm not sure what he was doing, maybe practicing?? Seriously.. me and my dad found it really funny! How can someone have so much free time and do something silly like that?? He was just going around the round about.. maybe trying to make himself puke!!

maybe he is the same guy who hit me a few weeks back ... was he driving a land cruiser? very nice guy, he perfectly knows the nearest location of the traffic police and they seem to know him very well LOL

**Sic dixit Zarathustra**

scarlett.. congrats on your first accident, you've experienced it with flying colors.. most specially, UNHARM..

be careful always..

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Nyer... another reason why I haven't gotten my driver's license here in Qatar!! ;)

Guess I'll have to postpone it yet again!

Well, now your car is a little less new... hehe

At least ur ok and nothing much happened to ur car... I know the first accident hurts a lot:(

I dream of a better tomorrow where Chickens can cross the Road without having their motives questioned - Unknown

scarlett- good to hear that yr not injured but sorry to the damage to the new car bumper......

psssst, better out the front than out the back......heheehehhehehhe

Glad to know you're ok Scarlett.

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This is what I hate about the traffic accident/insurance system here - the victim of the accident has to jump through hoops and pay money to get anything done.

I was rear-ended in a similar accident not long ago. So then I have to take over an hour out of my day to go to the police station and be passed from desk to desk and pay QR12 for some stamps (a tiny amount, but wtf?), then take a couple more hours the next day to go to the other party's insurance company. Why can't it be done by phone?

And to top it all, when I get the car to a garage (taking yet more hours of my time) I'm told I'll have to pay 50% of the cost of the parts, cos that's how insurance works here.

So considering the hours I took out of my working days and the subsequent loss of earnings, the cost of 50% of the parts AND the QR12 for stamps, being the victim of someone else's poor driving costs a fortune.

So infuriating.

Be it the first.least and last. its a big headache to go for repair of the damge..take extra care next time...be thankful the car was damage. not you...

"There's nothing we can do to change the past, if it teaches  you a lesson profit from it then, forget it."

and we thank GOD for that...

and thank God for the minor car damage and your safety

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I'm not frustrated by the situation...in fact when I got out of the car..just took a look at him and said..."well, you smacked my car pretty hard, huh??"

Seriously..he was one very nice person...so much so that i even thanked him for all his help(he also translated what the police were saying about the fees!) before we both left the police station.

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.

No pun intended. Just here to cheer you up and don't get frustrated by what happened to you...

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

hmm that was so funny i forgot to laugh...

why not keep your rude comments to yourself, please.

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.

I never let anything go longer than 2 days or I tend to procrastinate and then forget it!!

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.

some guy rear ended me at a round about tonight

You should also file for rape...

At least the guy was really nice and even drove me to the police station

but then again, you'll lose the case for accepting him...

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

well to be honest, his car suffered more than mine did...I will need a new bumper..he will need a new bumper and headlight..and he was certainly the smaller of the two of us(both car and person)..I stood at least 6 inches over him!! My car dwarfed his little truck.

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.

...actually you have up to 15 days to claim the accident.. if during this time you didn't claim it, just go back to the traffic department and put renewal stamps with no charge...

good luck, Scarlie!!... lol...

I was going to go to the insurance company tomorrow anyway, but is good to know for any future accidents..

Thanks everyone for the well wishes..and jass...GREAT idea!!!

QT...exactly the reason Desert Queen came out to help..she went through this last year and knew what to do!!

Something else I'm not used to is the fact that the person who was innocent in the accident has to go do all the running around to fix things!! Back home, you call your agent, THEY call the other person's agent and all is done by phone by the offender's company...Ahh well...I'm considering it a learning experience!!

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.

Good you are ok ...

Tell me the rare car who hit you is OK ;-) was it the impact of heavy car or the heavy driver ?? LOL

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glad you are ok!!

Maybe this is a good excuse to go get a full body massage :D

tra la la

It's not IF you have an accident..............it's WHEN!

...any paperwork regarding accidents for the future!

:P

.Thank God you are okay.

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12 QR for stamps and you suppose to report to the insurance within 48 hrs otherwise you cant claim the damage.

I had mine last weekend!!