Roll up, roll up, who is at fault poll here!

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So my wife's been involved in an accident on her way to work this morning. She's trickling along in the right hand filter lane to turn right and some women coming out of the road the wife wants to turn into doesn't turn her steering wheel enough and ploughs into the wifes driver and passenger door.

The other driver then initially claims to have not hit the wifes car and then tries to claim that the doors were already damaged. She eventually comes round to the idea that she may have been the cause as there's black paint on her CR-V bumper. There are no witnesses as everybody that the wife asked claimed to have not seen anything and more crucially my wife forgot to take pics of the cars just after the accident.

With reference to Rotty and his wifes fairly recent thread that to us looked clearcut I'd like to open up a poll here just as a small comfort factor till I have to hand over my £200 excess, yep just found out it's £200 :(
 
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Get in there first, not only register the accident with the insurers but register it with the police. If she has driven into the side of you, that's driving without due car and attention.
 
Yep she got the reg number, name and address of the other party, have already filed a claim with eSure who have confirmed that the other vehicle is insured.

Do I really need to get the police involved? How do I do this then? Ring them up or pop into my local cop shop?
 
If you pop to your local cop shop they'll fill out a form and a give you an incident number. That's pretty much all they'll do to be honest but then you pass that onto the insurance company.

It's just a case of covering your bases. I had a accident shortly after passing my test, in which i went into the back of someone at about 15 mph (was fiddling with the radio :rolleyes: ) Anyways a policecar was coming by when it happened and he told me that I was lucky, if someone had been injured then he would have done me for Driving without due care, as it was he, he wouldnt.

So yeah, if your mrs develops an injury as a result its better to have made the case to the police early on rather than try and do it retrospectively.
 
can we have an option on the poll for "not insured"

for the stupid cow to try denying the accident even happened, i have a feeling she might not be insured
 
without witnesses your best and almost certain result will be 50/50.

with the greatest respect as two women were involved there could well have been a navy frigate sailing between them and neither would have noticed, I've watched and cringed in the passenger seat a number of times as "other people" are at fault when my bird is driving down a pedestrian zone with 19 people and nine dogs attached to various areas of the car.
 
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Am I right in assuming that the other car was attempting to turn to the left? just trying to picture it in my head, with your wife in the filter lane to turn right into the minor road she would have been almost opposite the lane the car came out of therefore blocking them from turning right so they must have been going left? and if so how in gods name did they go wide by that amount O.o

Although you don't have witnesses (and im not just saying this cos I love arguing with will :P) the fact that they came out of a minor road into the side of your wife's car should count for something due to where the damage is, how much it will count for I have no idea...
 
ubersonic said:
Am I right in assuming that the other car was attempting to turn to the left? just trying to picture it in my head, with your wife in the filter lane to turn right into the minor road she would have been almost opposite the lane the car came out of therefore blocking them from turning right so they must have been going left? and if so how in gods name did they go wide by that amount O.o

Although you don't have witnesses (and im not just saying this cos I love arguing with will :P) the fact that they came out of a minor road into the side of your wife's car should count for something due to where the damage is, how much it will count for I have no idea...
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Yes, pretty much.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...p=12,11.647927999999979,,0,6.6151729999999995

In the link above the wife was travelling in the filter lane to turn right, the other party came out of the road on the left turning left but side swiped my wifes car whilst pulling out of the road.

PS How the hell do I embed a google street maps view?
 
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liambryan said:
its a recordable RTC, should get the police involved whilst your both at the scene to be honest but record it as soon as you can
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Why would a two vehicle damage only RTC need police to attend if both parties have exchanged details and presumably the roads not blocked?
 
So should it be reported or should I just let the insurance company sort it all out. TBH I'm loath to put any effort into this especially as the eventual outcome lies with the insurance companies.

On an aside both the drivers and passenger doors are badly dented, the drivers side wing mirror has some paint that's come off. The car is a W reg Honda Civic 1.4 Sport with around 55k miles, will it get repaired or will the car get written off? Could do without the hassle of it being written off to be honest.

EDIT: Here's some pics of the result of a CR-V lusting after a Civic :)

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Report it to the Police anyway for peace of mind.

Many moons ago my Dad was plowed into my some idiot which pritty much crushed his tin can of a mini! (Jumped a red light) Off he trotted down to the police station to report the other driver for dangerous driving to find out the other driver had already reported him!
 
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