Data Protection Act Help!!!!

Johno100

Neil1975 wrote: »

Unfortunately yes it is still occupying my mind, the company and their insurers took well over a month to sort out the damages to my car, and then took a further two months to finally give me a half arsed apology that didn’t explain why the events had occurred or how the driver had ended up at my home. Given that I’d agreed to let them deal with the matter, as you can imagine it’s rather annoyed me that I’ve had to take further steps to deal with it.

Remember its your friends car, you've got to keep your story consistent or people will think you are a just a WUM (another one for you to look up).

Neil1975_2

photome wrote: »

^^^

Oh well so be it, you will do what you are going to do.

You came on here asking for advice, I havent seen one post that agrees with what you are doing and the advice from most is to drop it.

Hope I dont cross you one day

I came on here to ask to seek people’s interpretation of whether the dpa rules had been broken, not to find out if they agree with my taking action. As I’ve said it’s a hard one to understand unless you’ve experienced it, in hindsight I could have taken several other forms of action, eg. got out of the car as soon as I realised I was in danger of being hit or just involved the police from the start, however it unfortunately happened as it did

Neil1975_2

Chopper_Read wrote: »

How do you know what mood he was in as you didn't have the bottle to open the door?

Are you 12 years old or just a hard man wanna be? Yes I could of answered the door, but as I’ve said given the way he was braying against the door and taking into account I’ve just gone mental with his boss about his driving it was pretty clear what mood he was in.

Neil1975_2

Johno100 wrote: »

Remember its your friends car, you've got to keep your story consistent or people will think you are a just a WUM (another one for you to look up).

Yes it is my friend’s car, I borrow it around three days a week and following this incident I had to get the repairs sorted myself, so for the sake of this thread I don’t see the need to constantly reiterate in each post who the car belongs to.

Neil1975_2

In summing up unfortunately the incident and the follow up events that I’ve described did occur, whilst waiting for appointment with my solicitor I came on here out of interest to seek some advice about how the rules of the dpa work. I find it odd that not many people on here think there’s been a breach of the rules whilst two independent solicitors both say that there has (and for the record one of these is a family friend who has nothing to gain from giving advice).

societys_child

Neil1975 wrote: »

I appreciate your point, however the bottom line is I was stationary for over a minute flashing my lights and banging my horn trying to get this guys attention, I couldn’t go backwards as there was a car blocking me and if I had not have driver into the hedge the guys tailgate would have gone through my windscreen, not a nice situation to be in. As you’ve said he didn’t hit me or a child, however my daughter goes to that school and passes that junction on her way home, unfortunately it’s the thought of what could have happened that occupies your mind long after the incident and if the driver thinks it’s ok to drive like this maybe he shouldn’t be on the road.

As for you reporting all the dangerous driving you see, maybe you should, if a few more people tackled the idiots on the road instead of just moaning about them maybe they’d be a lot less accidents.

You sat there for over a minute whilst a truck reversed towards you . . and then decided to drive into a hedge? :rotfl:Unbelievable

Neil1975_2

societys_child wrote: »

You sat there for over a minute whilst a truck reversed towards you . . and then decided to drive into a hedge? :rotfl:Unbelievable

everyones an expert in hindsight... what would you have done?

JQ.

I think you're missing the point.

I suspect most people on here just think you've blown this massively out of proportion. Essentially, all that's happened is that you almost had a car crash and the driver who almost hit you knocked on your door. He didn't kidnap you and hold you hostage for several hours, he knocked on your door.

If such a minor incident has caused you so much stress that you feel the need to take legal action 6 months later, what happens when something of significance occurs in your life? You must must be a bumbling wreck.

I imagine the reason posters have got upset is that it's frivilous claims such as this that push up insurance premiums for the rest of us.

And it pains me to say, but I wouldn't be surprised if the insurance company paid out as the costs of defending such claims is more than the actual claim. That's probably the real reason the solicitors are happy to take on the claim.

societys_child

Neil1975 wrote: »

... what would you have done?

In "over a minute" you had time to get out and have a chat with the bloke behind, ask him to reverse, or walk up the side of the reversing truck and ask the driver to hang on a minute, probably both!

photome

JQ. wrote: »

I think you're missing the point.

I suspect most people on here just think you've blown this massively out of proportion. Essentially, all that's happened is that you almost had a car crash and the driver who almost hit you knocked on your door. He didn't kidnap you and hold you hostage for several hours, he knocked on your door.

If such a minor incident has caused you so much stress that you feel the need to take legal action 6 months later, what happens when something of significance occurs in your life? You must must be a bumbling wreck.

I imagine the reason posters have got upset is that it's frivilous claims such as this that push up insurance premiums for the rest of us.

And it pains me to say, but I wouldn't be surprised if the insurance company paid out as the costs of defending such claims is more than the actual claim. That's probably the real reason the solicitors are happy to take on the claim.

This post sums up exactly how I feel, the OP can go over it again and again, I still dont get it