Still getting over this - You will have to suspend your disbelief to read the following (or am I just being naive?)

Couple of weeks ago I brought my mothers new car over to Berlin from sleepy Sleaford. Buying a left hand drive car in England to take over in this case turned out to be the cheapest option and I managed to get her a very nice 1994 Polo 1.6CL for which I paid just £650!

Obviously it was on UK plates so I made arrangements with my brother who also lives in Berlin to get the TuV and AU done whilst I was there and then go get the car imported and registered on German plates.

Fancied a new car myself and it seemed to make sense to get one in Germany and drive it home rather than waste money on flights so treated myself to a very well-priced immaculate Corrado G60 which my brother collected for me from Frankfurt a couple of days before my arrival in Germany with my mother's new car.

The morning of the day I was supposed to be leaving for the UK again in my new car we needed to go get the Polo registered and so that I could give the Corrado a proper run before driving it 800 miles home we thought we'd take both cars.

I followed my Bro' in the Polo (I'm not very good with Berlin and he's lived there for 15 years).
We ended up on Siemensdamm which is a straight 3 lane road with a few sets of lights and crossroads.
We were in the outside lane and as we approached a set of red lights (we were at the front of the queue) I slipped into the middle lane to have a chat with my Brother and find out where we were going.

The lights changed and we moved off. I checked my mirrors; nearest car, a white Golf IV estate was at least 4 or 5 car lengths behind my brother, so I indicated, checked my mirrors again and began to move accross to the outside lane slowly (we were only doing about 25 to 30mph approaching another set of red lights).

As my front left wheel crossed the line into the lane I head road/revving engine/tyre noise approaching fast (window was down) ...Then I heard the bang and and felt the collision.
The scraping stopped for a split second (by which time I was looking in my mirror - And having heard the noise I later found out so was my brother - Driving the Polo in front remember?) and I saw the driver of the white Golf Kombi with his arms turning the steering wheel towards me taking another shot.
This time he had his foot down, steering turned towards, rammed me for a second time and was literally pushing me diagonally down the street and did so for a good 20 yards
This all happened in a split second so I hadn't seen it coming and didn't have time to avoid or stop.

We all pulled into the side of the street, and my Brother well versed in the ways of Berlin's roads calmly walked over to me and quietly said "Don't say a word to anyone I saw what he did - I'm calling the cops"

meanwhile two woman have stopped behind the Golf and are giving him their details - Now far beit from me to suggest there was an element of racism involved in this "attack" but my theory that he had seen the UK plates on the Polo and seen us talking at the previous set of lights and summised we were together and both Brits was confirmed when unable to contain my anger I just shouted pleadingly throwing my arms in the air "Warum?!?"

The shouted reply from him and the two women was simple - "geh nach hause!, geh nach hause!".

Police turned up (fortunately proper traffic Police in a 5 Series BMW touring, not a graduate in a Golf!) and my Brother went over to greet them.
He explained what happened, repeated what the driver and his witnesses shouted at which point you could see the Golf driver grinning away...Until I said to the Police "have a look - Funny eh?".
They interviewed him at the road side then came back to us.

The cops looked at the damage - This basically meant new rear bumper and rear quarter panel to the driver's side of my car...And a new tyre for his car - All the damage had been caused by him turning his wheel into me.

They said they could see from the damage to both cars that this was deliberate by him and he had possibly done something similar before as he "knew exactly what to say". They also reckoned from the way he was behaving that he was a bit of psycho and was "probably driving the car owned by his employer (a laboratory company in Bremerhaven) like it was a battering ram"

They said they couldn't take any action over the racism as the words he used weren't racist even though the intent of them was.
Worst of all they said although it pained them to do it as they could see what had happened in that that he had "clearly deliberately driven into the Corrado" I would probably be found guilty following their report because it's always the fault of the person who's changing lanes in German law.

What really sticks in my craw is that when the Police gave me his home address we realised he was from Falkensee...making him a bloody Osty! Given the attitude of a lot of West Germans in Berlin at the moment it makes his telling me to go home a bit of a bloody cheek.

Well, I've now got a letter telling me to pay €35 with no action, or go to court so I guess if I've got no chance of winning I should just pay up and shutup and hope the next bloke he deliberately drives into is a Policeman.

No word from his employer's insurance company yet though which is interesting.

My God! I've heard of the insurance con of people driving into the back of people intentionally (at traffic lights for example) and claiming that they had braked suddenly so that they can rip the insurance company off for repairs to their (usually) wreck, but that's a new one on me!

You could make a separate complaint about him that, as he intentionally drove into you, he intended to cause injury or death. This would be a criminal case and not a traffic matter.

Find out his company and see if they would like the publicity of such case.

See if there are some anti-racist groups that would like to help.

Ciao
JG

Thanks for that - I'll have a chat with my lawyer and se what she reckons.

He used his car as a weapon... surely he can't do that

Unbelievable isn't it? But since it's one Brit against one psycho driver and two racist witnesses (who the Police think were with him), the truth loses.
Think I'll leave the car in Magdeburg and thumb it in and out of the capital next time!

I'll be in Berlin again next week, doing my usual thing of dodging the B.A.G. guess I'll have to dodge psycho idiot racists as well now... Oh, no i won't have to will I? the git T Boned your car and and his is now knackered :doh:

Mind you I'm wary of being rammed after that poor trucker got taken off that bridge by those two idiots in a BMW near Gummersbach

Didn't hear about that - Sounds nasty.

The other car is OK - The damage was all caused to my car by the idiot's turned-in, power-on passenger side front tyre! Apart from that it just needed a bit of paint on the wing.

Incidentally I knew I'd seen the guy somewhere before - Just worked it out. The little turd's the spit of Homer Simpson's neighbour, Ned Flanders only with greased back hair and shorter. Think he must have been suffering from "Small Man Syndrome".

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