Just say sorry

Quentin

The problem isn't to do with manners.

It's to do with legalities.

You are in breach of your insurance policy conditions if you admit liability for anything when involved in a motoring incident.

Saying "sorry" does indicate you are accepting liability, (as well a showing your ignorance of the legal implication)

king100

Quentin wrote: »

The problem isn't to do with manners.

It's to do with legalities.

You are in breach of your insurance policy conditions if you admit liability for anything when involved in a motoring incident.

Saying "sorry" does indicate you are accepting liability, (as well a showing your ignorance of the legal implication)

So what your saying is if you have an accident and you know its your fault, you say sorry then your insurance policy is invalid as you breach a policy.

king100

LandyAndy wrote: »

Moran - a female Irish Quidditch player in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .

Probably thought they were still on their broomstick.

Thats what I meant 1st time :rotfl:

Think shes the one that couldent fly properly and kept hitting things.

Strider590

king100 wrote: »

Over 50s at least

As I suspected, it's the pure and total inability to admit or acknowledge when your wrong.

Lirin

I agree with the OP on this. I had my car dented once while I was sitting in it- the girl knew she'd done it, and wouldn't apologise.

I know there's legalities involved in potentially admitting liability, but manners at the start could offset anything worse as well!

Quentin

king100 wrote: »

So what your saying is if you have an accident and you know its your fault, you say sorry then your insurance policy is invalid as you breach a policy.

Well....what I said was you are not to admit liability.

Apologising does seem to be an admission!

You do read of similar cases where no damage is done yet the injured party follows up with enormous bills for damage subsequently discovered, plus PI claims. It goes both ways.

king100

Quentin wrote: »

Well....what I said was you are not to admit liability.

Apologising does seem to be an admission!

You do read of similar cases where no damage is done yet the injured party follows up with enormous bills for damage subsequently discovered, plus PI claims. It goes both ways.

Totally understand, I very well might follow up with unsubstantiated claims but the likely hood is I wont.

laurz121

Am I missing something here? Why should the other driver say sorry when as far as both they and their passenger are concerned they did not touch your car?

The other driver started off by asking where the damage is which your partner confirmed there wasnt any and they then said that they didn't feel anything and was obviously unaware of any collision. Their passenger then got out and repeated the same things, that there was no damage and they were unaware of any collision. If two people are under the impression that they have not hit your car then why exactly should they say sorry?

I understand why you'd want them to say sorry if they hit your car but to be fair to them if they firmly believe they havent even touched it and there isn't a mark on either vehicle to suggest that they have then why would they apologise?

gilbert_and_sullivan

If you expect common decency and manners or heaven forbid honour in this country any more you'll be sadly disappointed, you only have to watch the great and good examples of politicians and most celebrities and you'll know why our country is disappearing round the U bend.

Once in a while you meet or see someone who was raised properly and hasn't forgotten how to behave, it's such a delight on those rare occasions.

anewman

Well lets hope the next thing they reverse into isn't a small child.