| Car dented by third party in car park and refused to give insurance details help 15:46 - Apr 25 with 7771 views | RangersDave |
Hi chaps,
If your advice is to forget about it then i shall do, but....
An hour ago while parked and in my car (its a lease one) the passenger of the car parked next to me threw their passenger door open without any regard to my vehicle with quite a force. It dented the door (about the size of a penny piece, and took the bottom of the dent back to basic black primer which is under the white undercoat. it also chipped the door handle down to the white primer and left an 8 inch vertical 'scratch',that is down to the white primer.
The passenger, a lad (about 16) apologised and i got out of the car to look at the damage. I then started to take photographs and by opening their car door (no objection from them), showed them that the markings lined up perfectly with the damage on my car. To which the mother then said you did that to yourself, by opening our door, you can do one and feck off.
I asked for insurance details to which she refused, and she got in her cer and drove off after much f'ing etc.
Now as its a lease car, i will be liable to any damage on return, and as such i am very anal about where i park, how i park and making sure i treat my vehicle (because of possible damage) with respect.
So what do i do now?
I have the date and timed photographs that show the damage and also pics which show their door lining up perfectly with the damage, plus i have their registration number.
What do i do now? advice please.
Cheers
Dave [Post edited 25 Apr 2020 15:48]
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| Car dented by third party in car park and refused to give insurance details help on 17:42 - Apr 29 with 1181 views | YokelR |
Fwiw don't think the cops could do much because you were on private premises not a road subject to the Road Traffic Act so a civil matter. Problem will be even if it was subject to RTA he said, she said no independent witnesses?
Contrary to what other poster says whilst in damage only accidents you do not have to report them to police you do have to stop, exchange names and addresses and insurance details.
Overall you may struggle with this one as they sound like a bunch of chavs who won't own up? |  | | |
| Car dented by third party in car park and refused to give insurance details help on 10:02 - Apr 30 with 1038 views | francisbowles |
| Car dented by third party in car park and refused to give insurance details help on 17:42 - Apr 29 by YokelR |
Fwiw don't think the cops could do much because you were on private premises not a road subject to the Road Traffic Act so a civil matter. Problem will be even if it was subject to RTA he said, she said no independent witnesses?
Contrary to what other poster says whilst in damage only accidents you do not have to report them to police you do have to stop, exchange names and addresses and insurance details.
Overall you may struggle with this one as they sound like a bunch of chavs who won't own up? |
To commit a motoring offense you just have to be anywhere that is normally accessible to the public.
They told me that in 2018 on my SOA! [Post edited 30 Apr 2020 10:03]
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