Letter from solicitor threatening county court proceedings

Jonnybmac said:
Sorry, I didn't know on an open forum there are 1-1 conversations you are not allowed to add your opinion on. :rolleyes:
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You're more than welcome to, but at no point did i say the OP drove off, i was using a scenario often talked about on here, where by people return to their cars and someone has crashed and dashed, they go mental at someone avoiding claiming, yet that is what some people in here are suggesting doing.

Also why not go home and listen to advice and change your mind. That's why you're given i think 48 hours usually to report the accident.
 
If it had been me i probsbly would have told them where to go but its my elderly father dont want the undue stress and hassle for him
 
robj20 said:
You're more than welcome to, but at no point did i say the OP drove off, i was using a scenario often talked about on here, where by people return to their cars and someone has crashed and dashed, they go mental at someone avoiding claiming, yet that is what some people in here are suggesting doing.

Also why not go home and listen to advice and change your mind. That's why you're given i think 48 hours usually to report the accident.
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24 hours by law iirc
 
Thing is if the 3rd party had of notified their insurer on time they would quickly have found the error in the info, so they have almost definately not reported to their insurance either.
Or they are complete numpties, because you would have expected 3rd party insurance to take details and go oh this doesn't make sense you said car A, but the details you gave are car B. At that point the 3rd party could go well this is the address of the person.

Its very likely its an ambulance chasing company, using a solicitor to act as the contact point. At a previous job I did we used a solicitor to be behind our final chance before action letters. They used to charge us something like £50 per 1000 letters to be able to use them (plus direct costs). Plenty of people paid up at that point. The odd one who contacted would have details taken and we would then either ask to drop it (rarely but could happen due to some missing paperwork etc so we wouldn't be prepared to ultimately go to court) or in most cases we would instruct the solicitor at that point to trigger action. At this point it would become chargeable as for normal work.
 
Kenai said:
In this case, all the dashcam would do is prove that his dad did bump the guys car and probably show him handing over his name and address to boot :p

Whilst the bloke might be a 'chancer' looking for a Christmas bonus, the OPs dad HAS hit his car. If the roles were reversed and the OP was posting here about someone claiming to not have been involved in an accident they had even handed over their details for at the time, I suspect most of the posts would be fairly derogatory.
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It was more in reference to the whole Christmas chancer that I had. But you are absolutely correct, which is why you should always contact your insurance company.
 
robj20 said:
Agreed. But unless the OP is 100% sure the other party has no evidence lying could get you in some serious trouble. What if it went to court your stood there sticking to the lie it wasnt you and they pull out some photos. Obviously it wouldn't go that far as evidence had to be shown before hand but you get the point pretty sure insurance would sky rocket for a while for them. Would it be classed as fraud?
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It's just some chancer. If he had something solid it would have been dealt with ages ago.
 
am i missing something here, they did not declare the accident you have 24hrs, all i can see here is the insurance company cancelling the insurance, why would they get involved ?

sorry OP but your dad is screwed.
 
Haggisman said:
If the OP's description of the incident is accurate then the bloke also hit his dad's car, so really OP's dad should make a counter claim ;)
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When you make contact with the back of someone's car with the front of yours, I know which way i'd be betting the incident had happened, even if it could well have happened multiple ways :p
 
Ah, but the issue is proving it, which 18 months later may not be easy (and I've had plenty of encounters with people nipping their way into a not-quite-big-enough gap where you're forced to brake hard to avoid them, it's not an unusual occurrence!)
 
Has anyone thought perhaps it has taken 18 months because they have been trying to contact the wrong insurer/owner,
and then the owner of the other car could have been ignoring letters from their insurer because it had someone else's name on it on it or the insurer has been rejecting the claim because it has the wrong name on the claim.
 
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