National Accident Database?

rs65

Either ignore the calls or just hang up.

Alternatively, tell them you have already successfully claimed.

dacouch

rs65 wrote: »

Either ignore the calls or just hang up.

Alternatively, tell them you have already successfully claimed.

Surely the National Accident Database would already know that...;)

forgotmyname

I would play on it for ages and ages. Im still suffering and i have spent over £30,000 of my savings adapting my home, You now need to install a lift in the house and its £12,000 and you dont know howto claim for the losses and expenses.

They will be wetting themselves with excitement at the fees they can rack up on this. When they ask if this was about the car accident, Say oh no you spilt something in the kitchen and tripped on it.. Where do i sign to claim

At least they wont be calling you again in a hurry knowing you will just waste their precious time.

BertTheRaccoon

I would find their website (if they have one) and then see if they are registered with the Ministry of Justice as being authorised for dealing in "claims management activities" - they should have a CRM number on the company website, then report them to the Ministry of Justice.

Cold calling is not allowed and any law firm is prevented from taking on claims from companies who have cold called the potential client in the first place.

u5e10

I've just had a call from 02030047203 - who when I asked right at the start of the call claimed they had got my details from the national accident database.
I refused to confirm any details but they did appear to have names and car details of a third party incident from a few years ago. I said it sounded like a scam to me and any contact needed to go through my insurance comapny. They maintained that the third party was making a claim and that wasn't true as they needed to know if I had any whiplash.
When I repeated it still sounded like a scam the lady informed me that I was the scam and hung up.
Approx a year ago I had a conversation with a gentleman who was trying to get me to confirm information about the same incident. He hung up when I pressed for confirmation about if he was connected with my insurance company.
At the time I spoke directly with my insurance company who confirmed that they did not know that company and it had nothing to do with them, sounding like cold calling to them.
As the caller had details about an incident I requested that it was flagged to my insurance compliance team. I made clear that I'd used to work with compliance teams so it wasn't that I knew for certain that the information had come from them. I made the request as the caller had specific information only a handful of locations would know and the compliance team would want to rule out that there was even a slight risk of a connection to them!
Like several others I ended up on this page as I then searched for national accident database.

dacouch

u5e10 wrote: »

I've just had a call from 02030047203 - who when I asked right at the start of the call claimed they had got my details from the national accident database.
I refused to confirm any details but they did appear to have names and car details of a third party incident from a few years ago. I said it sounded like a scam to me and any contact needed to go through my insurance comapny. They maintained that the third party was making a claim and that wasn't true as they needed to know if I had any whiplash.
When I repeated it still sounded like a scam the lady informed me that I was the scam and hung up.
Approx a year ago I had a conversation with a gentleman who was trying to get me to confirm information about the same incident. He hung up when I pressed for confirmation about if he was connected with my insurance company.
At the time I spoke directly with my insurance company who confirmed that they did not know that company and it had nothing to do with them, sounding like cold calling to them.
As the caller had details about an incident I requested that it was flagged to my insurance compliance team. I made clear that I'd used to work with compliance teams so it wasn't that I knew for certain that the information had come from them. I made the request as the caller had specific information only a handful of locations would know and the compliance team would want to rule out that there was even a slight risk of a connection to them!
Like several others I ended up on this page as I then searched for national accident database.

They get the information from comparison sites, insurers, repairers, recovery drivers, police, ambulance staff, firemen etc etc

MM1968

I've just had one of these cold calls from a company called CCS Law, their number was witheld but I Googled them and the full company name is Crooks Commercial Solicitors! 'Steve' told me that they'd been passed my details because of an accident I'd had recently, I told him I have never had an accident, he said that it was passed to them by a 3rd party's insurer and that I was the injured party, I told him again this was not correct & asked who had passed the details to them, he told me that was data protected. I said my details are data protected surely and someone is passing them around without my consent, he then said the info had come from the national accident database and had probably been passed to them by my insurance company. I disputed this again and he then changed his story again saying that it had probably come from the vehicle registration database, he finally went when I told him that there was no vehicle registered in my name. Surely these people cannot just ring you up willy nilly, and if they can is there a way of stopping cold calls to my mobile?

BertTheRaccoon

Solicitors should not be cold calling, it is against the rules. Report them to the Solicitor's Regulation Authority

now

his sounds like a scam! they hope to find somebody who has had an accident then charge them a fee up front to try and make a claim! then comes the hard bit you pay your money and never hear from them again

StephenM45

Yes, I too was called today alas they caught the wrong person. As previously indicated there is no such thing as 'the national accident database' and certainly not available for these people to use.
When I questioned more heavily, ( how do you have my number? Where are you based, what is the address of your business) They floundered badly. The caller claimed Manchester, they are in fact based in Rochdale.

I have reported this again to the ICO, however I believe that they are getting their information from insurance comparison web sites as I only seem to get calls when I renew my motor insurance and I put details of an accident I had 3 years ago into the site.

Is this legal? Moreover what can we do to shut these people down as they breaching Data Protection legislation that is there to apparently protect you and they seem to stick two fingers up and common decency.