Just wondering what other people's experiences of this is. Someone completely to blame for crashing into me is contesting it. My fear is it will now drag on for months until he finally admits fault - in his case once he has read the highway code! Here's what happened:
Driving to work yesterday morning on a 30mph road I approached a four-exit roundabout to go straight across. All roads coming off it are 30mph too. By the time I've gone more than half way across I saw a mini-van type taxi approaching me - I think he was going straight across. We collided with my front and rear wings on the left hand side severely smashed up and the left wheel pointing in the wrong direction, miraculously now damage to either door . His front bumper had come off completely.
We ended up at the start of the dual carriageway I was supposed to join, giving you an indication of how far I'd come before he hit me. When he got out he shouted at me "You should've stopped! You should've stopped". But there's now two ways about it, he failed to give way to the right at a roundabout.
We went round to a little side street to look at the damage and exchange details. Now this is where I made my one mistake - I checked the damage on my car wrote my details on his pad and went to check his damage at the front of his van. He then handed me a bit of paper with his details and as he drove off I realised he hadn't given me his reg number but his postcode. So I had have name, postcode, phone number and photos of the front of his van without number plate as the bumper had come completely off.
I should have noted it down above all else but when something like this happens it's unexpected and you're in shock. I knew what to do, but didn't do it.
Of course the silly c*** is now contesting my claim against him, my insurance company called him to get the reg number and he claimed to be on the school run and wanted a call back at 11am yesterday. They couldn't initially get a response from him but they eventually got hold of him in the early evening where he refused to give his reg number. Apparently he kept speaking over my insurer saying his solicitors will be in contact.
So he's unnecessarily witholding information from my insurer, he's going to his solicitor for some reason (maybe the imbecile has no insurance?) and he refuses to understand that he is at fault for not giving way to the right at a roundabout.
I know a few people who've been in similar situations - someone causes a crash and denies it until they're blue in the face, or initially admits fault then changes their mind 3 months later and the innocent party doesn't get a payout for something stupid like 15 months after the crash.
Anyone had similar experiences? Anything anyone can recommend to speed up the process and get this c*** what he deserves (I know I've used the c-word a couple times now but it really is appropriate for this reprehensible, arrogant, ignorant moronic excuse for a human being). As I was writing this my insurer gave me a follow-up call and by the sounds of it the two insurers will ask for testimony with diagrams etc. and then hopefully decide that he doesn't know what he's doing behind the wheel of a car
Driving to work yesterday morning on a 30mph road I approached a four-exit roundabout to go straight across. All roads coming off it are 30mph too. By the time I've gone more than half way across I saw a mini-van type taxi approaching me - I think he was going straight across. We collided with my front and rear wings on the left hand side severely smashed up and the left wheel pointing in the wrong direction, miraculously now damage to either door . His front bumper had come off completely.
We ended up at the start of the dual carriageway I was supposed to join, giving you an indication of how far I'd come before he hit me. When he got out he shouted at me "You should've stopped! You should've stopped". But there's now two ways about it, he failed to give way to the right at a roundabout.
We went round to a little side street to look at the damage and exchange details. Now this is where I made my one mistake - I checked the damage on my car wrote my details on his pad and went to check his damage at the front of his van. He then handed me a bit of paper with his details and as he drove off I realised he hadn't given me his reg number but his postcode. So I had have name, postcode, phone number and photos of the front of his van without number plate as the bumper had come completely off.
I should have noted it down above all else but when something like this happens it's unexpected and you're in shock. I knew what to do, but didn't do it.
Of course the silly c*** is now contesting my claim against him, my insurance company called him to get the reg number and he claimed to be on the school run and wanted a call back at 11am yesterday. They couldn't initially get a response from him but they eventually got hold of him in the early evening where he refused to give his reg number. Apparently he kept speaking over my insurer saying his solicitors will be in contact.
So he's unnecessarily witholding information from my insurer, he's going to his solicitor for some reason (maybe the imbecile has no insurance?) and he refuses to understand that he is at fault for not giving way to the right at a roundabout.
I know a few people who've been in similar situations - someone causes a crash and denies it until they're blue in the face, or initially admits fault then changes their mind 3 months later and the innocent party doesn't get a payout for something stupid like 15 months after the crash.
Anyone had similar experiences? Anything anyone can recommend to speed up the process and get this c*** what he deserves (I know I've used the c-word a couple times now but it really is appropriate for this reprehensible, arrogant, ignorant moronic excuse for a human being). As I was writing this my insurer gave me a follow-up call and by the sounds of it the two insurers will ask for testimony with diagrams etc. and then hopefully decide that he doesn't know what he's doing behind the wheel of a car
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