who is at fault?

sweetsheep84

Hi all, would like to know your view on this.

Have a friend who got hit from behind then shunt forward to hit car in front. Can an engineer determine that there was 1 or 2 impacts to her car and car in front? She is absolutely stressed about this. Would like to know what can be done for her.

Thanks.

GiveMeMyCashback

I've heard this one before.
Normally if you are hit by the vehicle behind, you then claim off his insurance for both shunts...cos the vehicle in front will need to claim off your insurance.

sweetsheep84

Her insurance told her that the guy in front will claim off the guy hit her if he felt 1 impact. The trouble is now the guy in front saying he felt 2 impacts with very little damage to the rear of his car where she hit him and her vans radiator is damaged. So can an engineer determine if a car have 1 or 2 impacts?

artbaron

How can a car be hit from behind and hit the car in front yet only suffer from one impact? Clearly there are two impacts. I presume what you want to ask is whether anyone can tell if your car hit the car in front prior to being hit from behind, or was hit from behind first. I can't think of any obvious way of deducing this by just looking at the cars.

sweetsheep84

I meant car in front that my friend got shunt into coz now hes saying my friend hit him first before she got hit. Sorry about the confusion lol

vaio

If the guy in front is saying he felt two impacts than I think you're going to struggle to find any mechanical/bodywork evidence that will be more persuasive than his evidence.

Likely that your friend is going to end up paying for the damage to the car in front and the damage to the front of her car and the car at the back will pay for the damage to his car and the damage to the back of the friend's car