Dog ran into road and damage car

SteveJW

Colleague driving home from work along a urban dual carriageway, a dog running loose ran into the road, he cannot avoid hitting it.
Dog is killed.
Person walking dog for a third party (dog owner) had let the dog of its lead, gave his details and details of the dogs owner.
Damage to car came to £300
Driver contacted owner who at the time was upset, so agreed to leave it for a couple of days, owner now will not answer phone calls and has not responded to letter.
Any advice, possible small claims court, all letters before action templates appear to be for claiming against companies

Thanks in anticipation

missile

Report to insurer or see a solicitor

neilmcl

Did your colleague report the collision with the Police?

Tilt

Give all the details to your insurers and let them deal with it.

Sgt_Pepper_2

neilmcl wrote: »

Did your colleague report the collision with the Police?

Why would they?

Ich_2

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q434.htm

A dog (as well as a goat, horse, cattle, !!!, mule, sheep and pig) does come within the remit of the Road Traffic Act and is a reportable accident so you are required by law to report it to the police.

So it is an offence not to do so

maninthestreet

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

Why would they?

....because the dog was killed - by law the accident must be reported to the police.

marlot

Surely the claim is against the person who was negligent - the dog walker, not the dog owner?

vaio

maninthestreet wrote: »

....because the dog was killed - by law the accident must be reported to the police.

As long as the driver and dog owner exchanged details then there is no requirement to report it to anyone. See s170 RTA 1988 for exact wording

atrixblue.-MFR-.

the claim is against the negligant party (the dog walker/sitter) not the owner.

the owner may have liability insurance for her DOG under her pet insurance, that would cover her for these kinds of things, but the avoidance is suggesting they dont, and quite rightly they dont have to acknowladge you as they are not the negligeant party.

if your friend walked you dog, let it off the lead, and the dog got run over due to it not being under control, who would you lay blame to? i would blame my friend, and ask him to cover the vet costs, and any other costs of damages the dog caused because he chose to let it off the lead.

TrickyWicky

SteveJW wrote: »

Colleague driving home from work along a urban dual carriageway, a dog running loose ran into the road, he cannot avoid hitting it.
Dog is killed.

So despite your colleague hitting the owners dog and killing it, I suppose you want the owner of the dog that your colleague killed to now pay for the damage to the vehicle right?

What would have happened if it was a fox? You and your colleague are sick. The dog owner has just lost a pet thanks to your colleagues driving and all you care about is getting the money from them for something your colleague did.

Thats just wrong and if t were me, your colleague would be receiving a moneyclaim for the loss of the animal.