Thanks mate. A bit of the shine has come off getting the new car though. My eldest daughter purchased a very neat and tidy 2003 Golf GL about 4 weeks ago. We insured just for 3rd party fire and theft due to her being young and accordingly the comprehensive premium being so high. Sunday late afternoon on her way to work she got slammed into the passenger side by a driver running a red arrow as he exited the freeway off ramp. We have witnesses who saw it and confirmed the lights my daughter went through were full green. Thanksfully she was fine physically after the crash.
Guess what, the other driver has no 3rd party property insurance, so my daughter is covered to the tune of $3K only and now we have to try to get the rest from the uninsured driver - what's the best we have a hard time!
This totally sucks and I can't believe we don't have compulsory 3rd party property on top on the TAC 3rd party cover for injury. Seriously, if you can't afford the insurance that covers damage you do to other property you shouldn't be on the road.
So as you can imagine, it's really not such a happy household right now and it's hard to show any real excitement about another VW coming into the fold when the one we had was only around for 4 weeks and is now gone and likely a write off!
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