Advice for a friend - insurance claim

Im sure the police would take an interest in such threats...

Tell them that if they don't supply the insurance details you will contact the police and inform them of the incident and the subsequent threats...
 
Acme said:
Im sure the police would take an interest in such threats...

Tell them that if they don't supply the insurance details you will contact the police and inform them of the incident and the subsequent threats...
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This, your friend shouldn't be bullied by this person. I'm not sure how it works, but i'd imagine if the registration was given to her insurers, they'd just contact the insurer of that car? I imagine they all have access to the MID
 
Rids said:
Am I right in saying that going the insurance route means the claim would go against the van owner in the first instance and then their insurance company would then seek to recover from the party at fault?
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Yes, she claims from vans insurance, vans insurance claims from mercs insurance.
 
I'm all for sorting out problems like this privately, but this fella sounds like right one. I'd take photos, talk to the other neighbour and explain the situation and then call the insurance followed by the Police.

Who smashes into two parked cars and then threatens to have a car crushed if you don't agree to let his (probably as retarded as him) friend fix the car in a scrap yard... Getting angry just thinking about it TBH.
 
I'm expecting a picture of a van with a cracked bumper and a skewed numberplate, and an old Fiesta which is 3cm further forward than it was originally and has a dent in it.

Until proven otherwise. :p
 
any good will about agreeing not to to go through the insurance would have gone through the window the moment they started making threats for me.

I'd club together with the owner of the white van and get it logged with the insurance companies. I'd start by finding out who insures the white van and contact them. If owner of white van won't divulge his details either (judging by him saying he wants it fixed outside of insurance) then just log the whole thing with your insurer and let them take care of it.
 
If the son was driving at the time and the Merc was a company car it could well be that the son isn't insured hence the reluctance of the Merc people to go the insurance route.

Certainly when I used to have a company car only me and the wife were insured not my children.

When I was a wee-wee-lad, many, many years ago I took my Dads company car for a midnight cruise and crashed it on the Hanger Lane gyratory roundabout. Absolutely **** myself, had friends in the car and I couldn't face my Dad so went to a mutual friends house, got her to ring my Dad up at 2am to tell him the bad news. To his credit he never flipped and reminded me that I was an idiot and that I wasn't insured. Luckily he was quite high up in the company he worked for, pulled some strings and got me insured, never heard anymore about it but it did teach me an important lesson, namely it's a bad idea to exit the gyratory from the inside lane across the path of a car that isn't indicating.
 
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