Someone hit my car - now they deny it. Help!

hethmar

Im a bit surprised that you havent followed this up since January though?

vaio

CM66 wrote: »

Thanks for the info. My insurers have already been in touch with his, they know exactly who they are, but Direct Line are telling me that unless he informs his insurance company off the accident himself there's nothing they can do??!........

Nothing except maybe get of their bottoms and look after their customer, it's sort of the other side of the deal where you give them a heap of money every year.

As someone else said, a good mind concentrating first step is a county court summons to the other driver

Strider590

Quentin wrote: »

The details you have been given by the person who hit you may not be actually his, but an assumed identity.

Thus the guy is denying all knowledge correctly, cos it wasn't him! (If he did write the note, he would know denying it would soon be proved otherwise)

A chap I work with had this exact same problem years ago, someone hit his car in a carpark while he was waiting for someone, they exchanged details and he went on his merry way.....
3 days later he's walking to the pub with his mate and he see's the guy who hit his car, he says to his mate "that's the idiot that hit my car" and his mate goes "I know him, his names not ?????? ??????, it's ?????? ??????"

Turns out he'd given someone else's details.....

I myself had a run in with an uninsured driver 8 or so years back, gave me false details and the car was registered as scrapped.

CM66

hethmar wrote: »

Im a bit surprised that you havent followed this up since January though?

I had no reason to beleive it wasnt sorted. Had a letter not long after the accident happended saying Direct Line were contacting the other isnsurers to reclaim costs and would contact me if there were any problems. As i never heard from them I assumed it was all sorted!
It only came to light when I went to renew my insurance and had a fault claim against me.

Spoke with a really helpfull person at Direct Line today, who told me no one had even bothered to run a DVLA trace on theother number plate!! Looks like they've been fobbing me off for weeks now, and he spoke to the guy who hit me and he said he had aleady advised his insurers so god knows whats happened......!!

Hopefully it will be sorted soon