Data Protection Act Help!!!!

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societys_child wrote: »

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!

Me thinks the Op may have exagerated a little with his" over a minute" in which case maybe he is prone to exagerating:(.

In that time he also could have gone past the truck

as previous poster has said how would the OP deal with a " real " issue

Chopper_Read

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

So if he was was reversing at 5 mph the OP was 440 feet behind him when he started.

Chopper_Read

Neil1975 wrote: »

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.

Well obviously harder that you :think: since I haven't posted on a forum that I'm scared to answer my own front door.:whistle:

Neil1975_2

Chopper_Read wrote: »

Well obviously harder that you :think: since I haven't posted on a forum that I'm scared to answer my own front door.:whistle:

Come and knock on my door and we'll see how hard you actually are, I promice I'll answer

pm for my address if you've got the balls

Neil1975_2

In regards to my being stationary for over a minute, I’ll explain it again for those of you that evidently seem to being struggling to understand…

I drive round the corner into my street

I see the wagon is reversing down the road towards me

I wait a few seconds thinking he might be backing up to let someone else out in front of him

He continues reversing so I flash my lights at him, he doesn’t respond so I check my rear view mirror to see if I’ve space to back up myself, I haven’t as there is a car behind me that is trying to get past the junction

The wagon is not far from me now so I flash my lights and sound my horn again as due to parked cars there is no way to drive round him

At this point I realise he isn’t going to stop, I can’t back up and there is cars parked to the right of me so I’m left with the only option of bouncing the car on the narrow path on my left and pulling into the hedge so I clear the route his wagon is taking.

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I’ve found this thread quite odd, I used this site for advice for another matter and between the comments that were posted and the private messages I received off a very helpful chap, I found out a great deal that has assisted me in dealing with the matter.

I started this thread simply to ask advice about the dpa, however several people have in their infinite wisdom have advised that there isn’t grounds for a complaint. I would think these people need to seriously think before posting or at the very least gain an understanding of things before trying to pass advice. The police viewed the junction and clearly advised that if they’d of had to produce an accident report they would lay the blame with the driver, they have also taken the action of approaching the company and warning them about their conduct in passing my details to the driver. The two solicitors I sought advice from have both confirmed that there was a breach of the dpa as the driver should not have been given my details and it was clearly evident by the time line between the incident and the drivers visit that he was alerted to the incident by the manager I reported it to.

I appreciate some people will think claims like this are responsible for rising insurance costs, however I’m am viewing this matter from my point of view alone. The company were given more than adequate leeway to address this matter but after my having to constantly chase them and their insurers to not only get the damage to the vehicle repaired, but also to seek the reasons for the driver turning up at my property uninvited, you can basically say I got p****d off with them. They created this situation not only by their employee driving without due care and attention, but also by their manager passing my details to the driver.

steve-L

Neil1975 wrote: »

I started this thread simply to ask advice about the dpa,

OK

The police viewed the junction and clearly advised that if they’d of had to produce an accident report they would lay the blame with the driver,

So irrelevant

they have also taken the action of approaching the company and warning them about their conduct in passing my details to the driver.

What details?
So far you didn't provide ANY proof they supplied the driver with ANY details, let alone YOUR details.

You gave the company (according to your post) your telephone numbers and the registration of a car that doesn't belong to you.

You don't mention giving them your address ....

If they are going to discipline a driver for their driving AND they are going to pay an insurance claim (that so far you didn't say you have ANY witness for but yourself) then surely the driver should get the details of what they allegedly did?

That the driver came round and acted aggressive is an entirely different matter????

Chopper_Read

Neil1975 wrote: »

Come and knock on my door and we'll see how hard you actually are, I promice I'll answer

pm for my address if you've got the balls

Send it to me then and I'll give it a knock next time I'm passing.

Neil1975_2

steve-L wrote: »

OK

So irrelevant


What details?
So far you didn't provide ANY proof they supplied the driver with ANY details, let alone YOUR details.

You gave the company (according to your post) your telephone numbers and the registration of a car that doesn't belong to you.

You don't mention giving them your address ....

If they are going to discipline a driver for their driving AND they are going to pay an insurance claim (that so far you didn't say you have ANY witness for but yourself) then surely the driver should get the details of what they allegedly did?

That the driver came round and acted aggressive is an entirely different matter????

The point about the police was to provide this thread with the point of view of the police as many people questioned whether the driver had been at fault.

The issue with my details is as such… the incident occurred around lunchtime, after the driver drove away I went straight home and phoned the company. Shortly afterwards I received a call back from a manager and our conversation ended with the advisement that he would contact their insurers and I would receive a call from them within a coupe of hours. Shortly after this call the driver turned up at my home banging on the door.

Either… the driver was aware of the incident to the point which he noticed and remembered the reg number, and then decided after leaving the scene to go for lunch and just happened to come to my house after I had spoken to his manager.

Or… the driver was aware of the incident to the point which he noticed and remembered the reg number, and then after leaving the scene to go for lunch he received a call from his manager alerting him to the incident and knew exactly which car was involved and then went searching for it.

Or… the driver was not aware of the incident, which I suspect is the more likely, and when his manager called him the manager gave him the registration number of the car.

I did NOT give the manager my address or the make and model of the car, I simply gave him my name, mobile number and car reg number. Given that the driver located and came to my home within half an hour of my speaking to the manager, I can only presume that the reg number was passed to the driver. The police have advised that as the wagon was a company vehicle any follow up on this incident should have been done by a manger and their insurers, not the driver.

As for your comment about witnesses, as I have explained I noted the reg number of the vehicle behind me who will have seen the incident, and presented this to the police. However the police advised that as the company had accepted liability for the matter there was no need for them to conduct an investigation or speak to the driver of the car.

As I have explained, after numerous calls and emails their insurers eventually sorted out the damagers to the car, however I have not received an apology for the driver turning up at my home or an explanation as to how he found my house.

maninthestreet

Of course the driver remembered the incident - he reversed passed your car parked on the pavement and stuck in the hedge in order to get past you, remember? So even without remembering your reg number, he would still have easily located your car by a simple process of limination.

steve-L

Neil1975 wrote: »

Either… the driver was aware of the incident to the point which he noticed and remembered the reg number, and then decided after leaving the scene to go for lunch and just happened to come to my house after I had spoken to his manager.

Or… the driver was aware of the incident to the point which he noticed and remembered the reg number, and then after leaving the scene to go for lunch he received a call from his manager alerting him to the incident and knew exactly which car was involved and then went searching for it.

Or… the driver was not aware of the incident, which I suspect is the more likely, and when his manager called him the manager gave him the registration number of the car.


I did NOT give the manager my address or the make and model of the car, I simply gave him my name, mobile number and car reg number. Given that the driver located and came to my home within half an hour of my speaking to the manager, I can only presume that the reg number was passed to the driver. The police have advised that as the wagon was a company vehicle any follow up on this incident should have been done by a manger and their insurers, not the driver.

I agree it's most likely... what I'm questioning is your ability to prove it AND that it was YOUR details (as the REG is not yours)

As for your comment about witnesses, as I have explained I noted the reg number of the vehicle behind me who will have seen the incident, and presented this to the police. However the police advised that as the company had accepted liability for the matter there was no need for them to conduct an investigation or speak to the driver of the car.

As I have explained, after numerous calls and emails their insurers eventually sorted out the damagers to the car, however I have not received an apology for the driver turning up at my home or an explanation as to how he found my house.

It is not that I don't believe YOU, I am questioning what you can prove in court.
As the company accepted liability they obviously (the most likely scenario being true) did so to simplify this.

If you push them then it no longer becomes pay someone and accept liability. The driver (wishing to keep his job) might lie and say he saw the reg or got it from another witness but didn't get their details ....