Last year I owned a Metro, nothing smashing but it was a nice little runner to get to and from work. not long after ownership a cement truck driver crashed into me on a dual carriageway, he wasn't looking as he was moving into my lane from behind and smashed my driver’s side rear wing/door panel inwards.
He admitted liability on the spot and we exchanged insurance details. I am with NUD fully comp and he was with Norwich Union under the fleet cover thing.
As far as I was aware everything went smoothly, I got home, pulled out my insurance details and notified NUD of the accident then contacted a local repair shop who forwarded me to QDOS accident help services who only deal with non fault accidents. They were superb, they sorted everything out within a week and I got a hire car too as I was working full time for that month on contract work so needed a car and I had no need to claim on my own insurance as it was not my fault.
Shortly after the driver of the truck started not responding to me or QDOS, we needed some further details and his insurer needed his admission of liability. It took almost 2 weeks for him to admit liability so the hire firm could role me out a hire car because they needed verification that they would get their hire fees back from the truck drivers insurance company afterwards.
I got my money for the metro all fine and that was that a month later. I thought it had all been solved.
I just got a letter recently saying that the truck drivers insurance company or broker/whatever has only paid half the hire car fees and not responded at all to any means of contact from anyone and so the case was forwarded to a solicitor on my behalf by QDOS who is doing what they can to defend my case and get this stupid driver and his people.
Basically what they (his party/lawyer) is saying now is that I had no right to be given a hire car because my car was worth only £500.
They said they find the hire car firms rental charges unreasonable too which was £25 a day for just over a month.
They are also claiming some more points along these lines.
Basically it looks like they are trying to weasel out of having to pay the remaining fees which is not on and I have been told that my side of the case is more solid but it's all down to the court at the end of the day and I may need to attend the hearing when it's arranged to verify my case etc.
I just want to know if there is anything else I can do or anyone else I can contact that may be able to help in this process? I work full time so it's extremely hard to get time off to attend the court in the first place so I'd like to sort this matter by paper i f possible at best and the solicitor working on my case has all the needed details to defend my case but said they can always use more info/help if needed.
:/
He admitted liability on the spot and we exchanged insurance details. I am with NUD fully comp and he was with Norwich Union under the fleet cover thing.
As far as I was aware everything went smoothly, I got home, pulled out my insurance details and notified NUD of the accident then contacted a local repair shop who forwarded me to QDOS accident help services who only deal with non fault accidents. They were superb, they sorted everything out within a week and I got a hire car too as I was working full time for that month on contract work so needed a car and I had no need to claim on my own insurance as it was not my fault.
Shortly after the driver of the truck started not responding to me or QDOS, we needed some further details and his insurer needed his admission of liability. It took almost 2 weeks for him to admit liability so the hire firm could role me out a hire car because they needed verification that they would get their hire fees back from the truck drivers insurance company afterwards.
I got my money for the metro all fine and that was that a month later. I thought it had all been solved.
I just got a letter recently saying that the truck drivers insurance company or broker/whatever has only paid half the hire car fees and not responded at all to any means of contact from anyone and so the case was forwarded to a solicitor on my behalf by QDOS who is doing what they can to defend my case and get this stupid driver and his people.
Basically what they (his party/lawyer) is saying now is that I had no right to be given a hire car because my car was worth only £500.
They said they find the hire car firms rental charges unreasonable too which was £25 a day for just over a month.
They are also claiming some more points along these lines.
Basically it looks like they are trying to weasel out of having to pay the remaining fees which is not on and I have been told that my side of the case is more solid but it's all down to the court at the end of the day and I may need to attend the hearing when it's arranged to verify my case etc.
I just want to know if there is anything else I can do or anyone else I can contact that may be able to help in this process? I work full time so it's extremely hard to get time off to attend the court in the first place so I'd like to sort this matter by paper i f possible at best and the solicitor working on my case has all the needed details to defend my case but said they can always use more info/help if needed.
:/
Last edited: