Blonde move - when auto hold goes wrong

[anzer]

Bad day Saturday.

Picking up my daughter from dance class ..some lady stopped two metres in front of me in a no park lane and got out of her car (i.e. parked) ..I was a little pissed then thought ..what the heck ..I'll just be nice and wait for her to move ...

stuck car auto-hold on and waited ..turned around to sort out my son in the back seat and accidentally touched the accelerator without realising ..before I knew it the car lurched forward and hit her car in the rear end

She was fluffing around with her passenger door at the time and ended up bum down on the sidewalk ... her car got a small scratch in the rear - I broke my number plate protector(testament to the front absorbing bumpers on the X - they are awesome) ... but the momentum of her passenger door moving forward must have strained a hinge ..so her door would not close properly ..then she got all ANSI and hysterical ... a crowd of redneck construction guys started to hassle me (you get this sometimes when driving an X and they never will) so I gave her insurance details, asked her if she was ok, and left ... a bad day that will end up costing me close to $1000 (excess + police fine for 'careless' driving) ....

My lesson ... use auto-hold with caution.... you have to stay alert when this thing is on in autopark - next time I'll just use the P button instead if I have to stop for longer than a set of lights