Was coming back from a few days travelling to London and a few other places yesterday and was just thinking how good the old vectra had been and looking forward to getting home. I took over driving for the last stretch from the missus then it happened...

I was moving from lane 3 to 2 as it was closed off ahead for roadworks, spotted a gap, traffic was going at less than 30mph, checked it was safe, did the whole MSM and moved over...out of nowhere comes a motorbike filtering through the traffic and smacks the front of my car - shoots forward and smacks the back of the car in front and off comes the rider!!

Got out and dealt with the situation but left with the following damage;

Nearside wing and bumper caved in and scratched,
Alloy dented and scratched
Nearside tyre burst (only been on for two months)
Debris hit and damaged front passenger door and offside bumper
Braking and steering damaged too.

Sorry no pics - car is already off to the bodyshop.

Rider came off worst but nothing life threatening.

It still amazes me why riders take chances like that, i'd only just been to an accident on my last shift of a similar nature - didn't expect to be involved in one myself!

Anyone else out there suffered something similar???