Potential New Car, but... possibly now written off!

depot

It must be 20 years ago my dad had his ford fiesta stolen and it ended up rolled over in a field, to everyone's surprise the insurance company decided to repair it , including a new bodyshell, it took months till it was finished and we all reckoned the insurance company made a mistake in deciding to repair it rather than right it off, but once they had started they were committed to repair it, even though it must have cost them more,

Understandably he wasn't happy about this and found a company that inspected cars after accident repairs , he paid for this himself and it got a clean bill of health.

k17chy

They will more than likely be waiting for parts.

Ste7en

They got all the parts at least a month ago.

Ste7en

Bloody hell! I have to admit that is how this feels. The garage is committed now they have to do the work.

I'd be interested to know what the company was called your Dad used.

Ste7en

Just had the telephone call. Waiting on a windscreen and once it is fitted and the sensors calibrated it is ready to collect.

Tyrespot claim the tyres are fine.

Thug

Excellent news.
Hope you claimed your unused tax back.

As for the police, they wont do anything.
Just about EVERY collision is due to someone driving without due care and attention, and not everyone gets prosecuted. The reason being, its a time consuming process and the police don't have the luxury of taking an officer off the road for several hours doing paperwork for damage only collision. If they did then they would never leave the officer for doing files. Then there is the courts and how busy they are. Again, a damage only RTC will not be top of their agenda to spend money on and take up valuable courts time (at our, the tax payers, expense).
Not only that but the driver wont have a UK licence, so a ghost licence will be created on the system to give him points. These are quite difficult to uphold in the future.
Police have no power to seize mobile phones, unless its necessity is fitting to the crime/offence, where a damage only RTC is not, especially without any suspicion that the use of a phone was a contributing factor in the collision.
To interrogate the phone they will have to go through data protection and what is called cycomms, which is a lengthy and very expensive process and again is not fitting the severity of the collision.

Ste7en

Cheers Thug, I was toying with contacting the PC from the crash but I suspect he has plenty to be getting on with. What disgusts me is the HGV driver didn't give a toss, he could have killed us.

Never thought about claiming back unused tax. Mind, it is only 30 quid for the year.

nvingo

So, only a fiver for the whole months spent off the road, if that.

Ste7en

Yeah, not really worth the hassle

If it was as much as our last car I'd have claimed it without a doubt.

Thug

You could contact him but I have little doubt he will just say there was no further police action and it is left to the insurance companies to sort out.
It’s not just the time and expense for the police and courts it will also cost a few hundred for an interpreter too, all for him to get 3 points on a ghost licence. That’s if he even turns up for court, which I very much doubt he will.
You have to be realistic.