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Daughter's Car Accident - please help.
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We are in agreement that checking someone's phone after an accident is not routine, and tesuhoha was wrong to claim it is.
I suspect he had the legal right to inspect the phone if he had a reasonable suspicion she was using it at the time of the accident. Whether he had a reasonable suspicion or not is debatable! Ultimately for a court to decide.
Routine for serious collisions but not in the case described.0 -
That's good news. Makes a change to hear a positive outcome from an insurance claim on forums.The car has been declared a write off and the insurance company have offered my daughter more than the list price for the car which she has accepted.
Hope she gets back on the road as soon as possible.0 -
We are in agreement that checking someone's phone after an accident is not routine, and tesuhoha was wrong to claim it is.
I suspect he had the legal right to inspect the phone if he had a reasonable suspicion she was using it at the time of the accident. Whether he had a reasonable suspicion or not is debatable! Ultimately for a court to decide.
You are not objective as you claim. As far as you are concerned there is zero possibility that my daughter is the innocent party in all this. I don't know how you can be so 100% but you have judged her guilty and your opinion is rigid and fixed.
The police officer who had his 'suspicions' as you say about the phone, found that it had not been used and was the same police officer who missed the mark on the back of the car. He is now saying that she was hit by something that drove on. However, you know better than the people who have actually seen the car. Therefore I cannot take you seriously but find your flippant remarks about criminal charges and courts highly offensive.The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best0 -
The_Turner wrote: »Routine for serious collisions but not in the case described.
It was a very serious collision.The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best0 -
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The_Turner wrote: »Sorry but it wasn't. Collisions are graded on the degree of injury. Damage only, slight, serious and fatal. That collision was slight injury so not very serious.
Well, I suppose that is how it is graded.The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best0 -
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We are in agreement that checking someone's phone after an accident is not routine, and tesuhoha was wrong to claim it is.
I suspect he had the legal right to inspect the phone if he had a reasonable suspicion she was using it at the time of the accident. Whether he had a reasonable suspicion or not is debatable! Ultimately for a court to decide.
I am not wrong, you are. Try reading this article. It clearly states that police check mobile phones after accidents, not just serious accidents, but all accidents.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573190/Drivers-who-use-mobile-phones-face-jail.html
I've copied and pasted the relevant sentence to make it easier for you.
Police now check mobile phone records after accidents to see if the driver was making a call at the time.The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best0 -
The_Turner wrote: »No suppose about it. It's fact.
perhaps you should find some fact to back yourself up.
NOT EVERY 999 call is graded to the police as you say it is, most of the time the officer has no idea of how serious a motorway accident is untill he/she has attended and as such is treated as pontentially fatal untill arrival on scene.0 -
I am not wrong, you are. Try readin this article. It clearly states that police check mobile phones after accidents, not just serious accidents, but all accidents.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573190/Drivers-who-use-mobile-phones-face-jail.html
Must be true if the press say so.0
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