Cows - the natural enemy of the motorist?
'A cow jumped on my quad bike'
Friday, 22 Jun 2007 16:20
Working at MyFinances we come across a large number of very important and rather dull facts.
But now and again something a little more fun comes along - and here, courtesy of Norwich Union's funny claims division, are some of the more ridiculous reasons people have given for making a car insurance claim in the last two years.
Cows - the natural enemy of the motorist
"A cow jumped on my quad bike"
"A herd of cows licked my car and caused damage to the paintwork"
"My parked car was hit by a bull which had escaped from an agricultural show"
"As I came over a hill, I hit a cow in the middle of the road, which then hit the bonnet and shattered the windscreen with its rear end" (The cow survived)
"I stopped to let some cows cross the road and one of them climbed on my car"
Other animal-based car insurance claims
"A frozen squirrel fell out of a tree and crashed through the windscreen on to the passenger seat"
"The car was parked when a reindeer fell on the bonnet of my car"
"A zebra collided with my car when I was at a safari park"
"A deer head butted the windscreen of my car, after being enticed by the yellow tax disc"
"I parked in a country lane beside a hedge, when I returned to the vehicle, two horses had chewed my car"
"A pheasant flew into the windscreen causing me to lose control, mount a kerb and roll over"
"While I was waiting at traffic lights, a wasp went down my trouser leg which made me hit the accelerator and prang the car in front"
Insurance claims that cannot be blamed on the animal kingdom
"As I was driving round a bend when one of the doors opened and a frozen kebab flew out, hitting and damaging a passing car"
"I couldn't brake because a potato was lodged behind the brake"
"I was driving home when my car was hit by a sofa"
"I forgot to close the car door as I reversed out of the drive and caught it on the gate bending it back"
"My wife ran into the garage door, causing it to buckle"
"The collision was unavoidable as no red light was showing at the crossroads, although I was in fact driving along a tram line"
"Stopped in a queue of traffic at a roundabout, I checked left and right that it was clear to go and collided with the stationary vehicle in front of me"
"I hit the rear of the vehicle in front because it barked suddenly"
"I was washing the car when it started to roll down the hill backwards, hitting a wall and colliding with a telegraph pole"
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