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The Dundonian wrote:
Just had a look at the site. They Campervans are £100-£130 per night to hire with £1,000 excess. You can purchase secondary insurance to cover part of this at £63 per week, which reduces the excess to £350, but a maximum claim of £2.5k, so yesterday’s accident would have cost more than that I’d say, in which case it would revert to £1,000 excess again. Ouch!
You can get annual car and campervan hire excess insurance for £73 that covers all excess (other than personal injury and keys) up to £2,000.Black 05 TDV6 HSE Auto
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22nd Jul 2019 9:56 am
James W
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Sea Raider wrote:
This is a famous view and made even more famous after Downton Abbey filmed a few scenes here]
wow - where is that?D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
2018 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography - Gone to someone with less sense and more time to enjoy it
2016 Toyota Hilux Invincible - Liberating experience
22nd Jul 2019 9:58 am
highlands
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Oh, I've plenty of foreign campervan stories.
Worst was a column of 6 Italian vans in the winter.
I was taking 3 of our pigs over the Mam in the D3 & trailer (pigs were in the trailer).
Met them with them coming down. They passed a passing place and eventually waited for me to reverse to the one I'd already gone past and then my going to the right on the part that was next to the drop (before the new, ugly, barriers were installed) and the snow plough hadn't cleared.
If I didn't have livestock in tow, getting rather agitated, I'd have stood my ground.Black 05 TDV6 HSE Auto
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22nd Jul 2019 10:01 am
Sea Raider
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James W wrote:
Sea Raider wrote:
This is a famous view and made even more famous after Downton Abbey filmed a few scenes here]
wow - where is that?
No telling you - theres enough visitors
Inveraray Castle on the shores of Loch Fyne
22nd Jul 2019 10:04 am
Someone-Gone
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maybe thats my problem, I don’t take money from them. I have veered away from putting up Chalets or Camping Pods on my land. I couldn’t suffer the intrusion tbh.
That said, a mature lady neighbour of mine had a 4 bed holiday house built on a scrappy bit of land adjacent to her home. No garden at all bar a small paved area. She flogged it last month, fully furnished for £300k. They didn’t want the TV or Sky box, so she asked me to remove it on the day of entry.
She did leave them a bottle of wine and .... some bananas as a welcome gift.
22nd Jul 2019 10:20 am
Someone-Gone
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Oh, a very serious RTC on the NC500 this afternoon involving my favourite vehicle and a motorcycle. The condition of the injured is UK.
And the "do gooders" have got up a petition to the government to remove the medical inspection for the C1 category of licence . . . !A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
25th Jul 2019 3:55 pm
Someone-Gone
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Oh and this just came in. The road is really getting a bad reputation.
“And Traffic Scotland confirmed at 17.18pm that there has been a second serious collision in the area, with the smash taking place on one of the temporary diversion routes.”
25th Jul 2019 5:16 pm
highlands
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The Dundonian wrote:
Oh, a very serious RTC on the NC500 this afternoon involving my favourite vehicle and a motorcycle. The condition of the injured is UK.
I believe the motorcyclist is still in Raigmore.
As said, seems fairly obvious from the positioning what happened.
A lot of scary damage if the torso of the biker did that to the bonnet of the German campervan.Black 05 TDV6 HSE Auto
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25th Jul 2019 11:08 pm
Someone-Gone
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Yes, was thinking that. Lucky the motorcyclist is still alive. All I see is Camper Vans on the road, a lot of Italian and German ones.
Last Saturday, there had been another fatal road accident a bit further north.
The pedal cyclists are also coming to the fore again. Nothing against them, but the roadway combined with the traffic makes it a bit like playing Russian roulette. Rather them than me!
26th Jul 2019 6:21 am
NC500
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I live on the north coast and use my D4 to operate bespoke tours (North Coast Explorer- look us up on the web and FB). Consequently I drive thousands of miles round the NC500 each year.
Having just returned from a weeks holiday ‘down south’, my observation is that whilst driving standards on the NC500 often leave a lot to be desired, it is still far safer to be driving 500 miles up here than 500 miles in many other parts of the country!
IMHO, bad driving on the 500 is more obvious because there a fewer vehicles- idiots stand out.
26th Jul 2019 6:40 am
highlands
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The biggest problem here, for major accidents, is the single track carriageways and laybys, combined with drivers used to driving on the right.
When they exit the above a small but worrying number revert to their 'normal' side of the road.
We had a fatality round the corner from us 2 years ago when a car travelling on the RHS had a head-on with another, despite BIG arrows on the road indicating which side the car should be on.
I come across cars travelling on my side of the carriageway (toward me) about one in 20 of my journeys in the summer, thankfully not on a bend as yet!.Black 05 TDV6 HSE Auto
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26th Jul 2019 7:47 am
Brian_DL13
Member Since: 25 Aug 2013
Location: Teesdale
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The Dundonian wrote:
The pedal cyclists are also coming to the fore again. Nothing against them, but the roadway combined with the traffic makes it a bit like playing Russian roulette. Rather them than me!
Yes, we've come across this lots on quite a few 'busy but narrow' roads - often down the side of a lake (eg Ullswater, Loch Ness). There are so many of them and the car/truck drivers understandably get impatient and close passing / cutting in is common. Why they take their life in their hands like that beats me.
26th Jul 2019 4:20 pm
Brian_DL13
Member Since: 25 Aug 2013
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highlands wrote:
The biggest problem here, for major accidents, is the single track carriageways and laybys, combined with drivers used to driving on the right.
When they exit the above a small but worrying number revert to their 'normal' side of the road.
We had a fatality round the corner from us 2 years ago when a car travelling on the RHS had a head-on with another, despite BIG arrows on the road indicating which side the car should be on.
I come across cars travelling on my side of the carriageway (toward me) about one in 20 of my journeys in the summer, thankfully not on a bend as yet!.
On the A66 near us we had a very long hold-up recently after a German-reg VW Tiguan came out of a side road onto the wrong side of a single-carriageway section of the A66 - straight into the path of an HGV. One dead, one seriously injured. It's more common than the powers-that-be let on, I reckon.
26th Jul 2019 4:24 pm
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maybe thats my problem, I don’t take money from them. I have veered away from putting up Chalets or Camping Pods on my land. I couldn’t suffer the intrusion tbh.
