A bus hit me!

needaspirin

With your attitude I wouldn't help you if the bus HAD hit you.

flyingscotno1

Depends what company this is- I assume small local company if they are not dealing with insurers as big companies would not bother with this. Big companies would also have multi angle CCTV, external and internal and could tell everything from it. It would all be logged and passengers have forms to fill in at the time from the last bus incident I was on.

Given a single decker is £80K-100K new they ain't cheap- even used ones are £20K ish- repairs aren't greatly cheap too.

This doesn't sound great IMHO and I'm not sure what writing will get you- I think you need to let the insurers deal with this and suffer any pain.

talksr

ben500 wrote: »

What a charmer

Pointless post waste of time/

talksr

Mummy_Jo wrote: »

If you really want people to help you with this issue then maybe you shouldn't be so critical! It isn't really clear what you want from your first post (although it may be to you!)

Write to the bus company by all means but as they are a large company I doubt they will take a letter from you seriously. You could try calling their bluff and see where it gets you. Tell them that the driver admitted fault at the time of the accident. I assume when you mean it will cost your brother you are talking about the excess. Citizens Advice may be able to help you put a letter together.

My advice is to let the insurance company appoint a solicitor and let them sort it out. If you do not want to go down that route then I would consider joining Which Legal. I have used them several times in the past and gone to the small claims court with their advice and won. You do have to pay a fee renewable quarterly but you can just sign up for one quarter.

Thanks for this, very useful

talksr

Zazen999 wrote: »

It would be impossible to write a decent letter without the details; otherwise it will be totally generic.

Keep it to bullet points of what happened [step by step]; and ask for what you want. It helps to give timescales of what happened, when.

And if you want advice on writing a letter; then just put that in your original post. People aren't psychic.

Thanks, very helpful advice

talksr

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

My crystal ball is in for repair.

Sorry.

Maybe get a new one Lee? No point in just repairing it all the time, sounds pretty unreliable to me?

talksr

SolicitorMidlands wrote: »

I may be way off the mark but was your brother insured at the time of the accident? If he was, it seems very odd that they are writing to him directly.

Forward any correspondence you receive to your brother's insurers. Do not attempt to deal with this yourself.

He was insured. All 100% legal. I was very concerned about how they are asking to do it directly. Especially when the driver had initially admitted fault. I found it all too fishy.

talksr

muskoka wrote: »

I'd definitely let the Inusurance Company deal with this & ask the Insurance Company to check where were these supposed witnesses sitting on the bus who allegedly saw the incident?????? in relation to where the car/bus was damaged.

Sounds like a good idea, thanks for this.

talksr

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

Depends what company this is- I assume small local company if they are not dealing with insurers as big companies would not bother with this. Big companies would also have multi angle CCTV, external and internal and could tell everything from it. It would all be logged and passengers have forms to fill in at the time from the last bus incident I was on.

Given a single decker is £80K-100K new they ain't cheap- even used ones are £20K ish- repairs aren't greatly cheap too.

This doesn't sound great IMHO and I'm not sure what writing will get you- I think you need to let the insurers deal with this and suffer any pain.

Blimey I had no idea they cost so much. This sort of makes sense now as to why they are persuing things.

talksr

Thanks guys who posted useful comments I most certainly am a nice person and have a perfectly good attitude. Maybe, seeing as some people seem to have misunderstood me a little, I will explain things, so maybe then you can understand a little better. Today is a fresh day, so I am not under as much pressure today.

My brother had insurance and everything else and is a law abiding person,
He has not been driving all that long
Myself being the oldest sibling in my family, have to manage the household, I earn more than my mother, and my brother put together, and this is not very much at all.
I have to pay the bills and sort things out when things go wrong. Last night, among the usual things, my brother came along to me telling me that he had received another letter from the bus company despite the incident happening rather a long time ago.

Being a family oriented person, I tried my best to help him and thought it may be worth me writing them a letter, asking for copies of their witness statement and driver statement etc.

Having worked all day long (like the rest of you)and about to go off for my evening shift, I thought I would write a quick post just to see if anyone had any suggestions of what I could write.

Some of you, criticised and quite rightly, that my op was rather confused and not to the point which is fair enough, if you were rushing to get to your next job, you may also have made mistakes. But I do accept that it was a little rushed and confusing for some.
Most of the people who replied, can probably completely understand it. But then, we always get the odd few who just seem to want to stir up trouble and make the forums a negative place to be.

THank you to those of you who helped, there are some really valuable people out there, and I am grateful for your useful suggestions and tips. But for the rest of you, maybe you should consider why you even use the forum?! The comments you make don't contribute, the make the place look shabby. I know it is only a select few and my haste last night coupled with mounting pressures of work, family and bills didn't help and I am sure we all have the same going on, but is it that hard to stop and take a look at what you are writing.

Well anyway, thanks again for the helpful posts. I will try my best to help him out. I did what I never wanted to, I wrote a long post. - Something which is long, boring and annoying.

P.S My grammar and spelling are perfectly ok, when I am not hastily typing away like last night.