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Swervin_Mervin
Level 2 User
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
Posts: 59
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Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:50 am |
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Just before christmas I had someone drive in to me on the exit of a roundabout. There were 2 left turn lanes and this guy in a van swung wide on the exit of the roundbaout in to me (he was in the n/s lane, me in the o/s lane). He wouldn't admit full liability claiming I veered in to his lane, and no fvcker stopped to act as witnesses. Needed a new pass. door and front wing and bonnet were sprayed.
After getting another threatening letter from the 3rd party's uninsured loss recovery company yesterday demanding I fork out £200 for his excess, I rang my uninsured loss recovery team this morning.
They told me they've just had confirmation from his insurer that they don't wish to go through the courts so they're coughing up for everything! WOOHOOO!
They tried it on 2weeks ago saying that as there were no witnesses they wanted to go 50:50. Obviously my re-iteration of the evidence I submitted was enough to persuade them I wouldn't admit to any liability.
I drew up a junction plan at work on CAD and used vehicle tracking software with the exact vehicle geometries in to show what would've happened and what damage would have occurred had his story been true and vice versa, along with photo evidence showing the kerbing marks on the traffic island and corresponding marks on my alloy.
Just goes to show that a well reasoned arguement and not giving in is the way forward. |
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astrojon007
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Joined: 29 Mar 2005
Posts: 731
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Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:59 am |
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Nice mate. great feeling when stuff like that gets sorted alothough I think most of the time insurance companies place blame to buy time as much as anything else.
Was driving my mums rover when it was almost written off in a head on by some stupid bint in a corsa. Front left of her car dirctly in the middle of my mums. And then they dispute liability. Took 12months to settle the claim and was told by my insurance company it should never have taken that long as the damage wasn't consistent with her story but was with mine.
Always a pain in the arse but if it gets sorted eventually it's all good. |
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JB
Mr Quoter-vator
Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 7405
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Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:33 am |
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argh!! hatred of all ppl who cannot just fuckin admit when they done soething wrong!!!
every fucker seems to want to get out of it...or get something out of it...what a greedy bunch of sloths there are out there....grrrrrr |
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