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Apparently Reversed into someone.. Got a court date. Help!
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I have a similar situation (or rather my OH does). She had a roundabout accident, other person was clearly in the wrong. However, an "independent witness" who "saw the whole thing" and was "driving directly behind" the third party was around to see my OH driving recklessly, not indicating and obviously speeding.
Odd that we saw no independent witness and even odder we didn't see any car driving behind the third party either! Even odder, nobody offered their details to the police who attended either. But hey ho, I guess the lesson is, if you have a fault accident, always have a mate to say something convenient. Nobody will ever check, certainly not the cops!0 -
spacey2012 wrote: »Giving the police a statement was a most foolish thing to do.
Pleading guilty will cost you many many thousands of pounds over many years in insurance costs.
You need to start building a defence, especially if this was on private land.
Dont trust your insurance to defend you, they work in their interests.
Why foolish? If the police ask me for a statement i'm inclined to give them on, I just told them I had no knowledge of the incident. How would that have done me any harm?0 -
thenudeone wrote: »Ownership of the land is irrelevant. If the car park is a deemed to be "a public place" then the same laws apply as on the road. This was changed in 2000.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/170
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/726/regulation/2/made
Plenty of car parks would fall into that category, particularly if the premises had members of the public visiting regularly. A supermarket or pub car park would definitely be included.
But your insurers wouldn't be bothered. Unless you are very high risk driver and on a RTA-cover-only policy, they'll cover your liabilities even on private land.
Agreed, and I understand the law change. It was introduced for damage in supermarket car parks etc. A place of work would normally be considered private property if it is a staff car park.
I had made that assumtion so OP could you clarify?Some people don't exaggerate........... They just remember big!0 -
Chopper_Read wrote: »The OP hasn't given a statement and wasn't interviewed.
The OP appears to indicate otherwise:-Towelie88 wrote:I was starting to think that it had all blown over as I hadn't heard anything in months, until the police rang me 2 weeks ago to take a statement. I told them again that I was not aware of this happening and would have never driven away from an accident. They advised me that they have a independent witness who says that I reversed into a parked 2012 reg car.0 -
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Agreed, and I understand the law change. It was introduced for damage in supermarket car parks etc. A place of work would normally be considered private property if it is a staff car park.
I had made that assumtion so OP could you clarify?
I could have sworn when I first read the OP's post it said it happened in a works car park. Having re-read the post it saysTowelie88 wrote:I apparently reversed into someone by my place of work the week before..
So it may have been on the public road.0 -
You need to speak to your Insurers who have a vested interest in you being found not guilty, occassionally they will pay for defence costs.
Their engineers report may show conclusively that there's no accident damage to your vehicle if they did a proper check. This report may help defend you0 -
Are you a member of any motoring association that may offer legal advice?
I would certainly get the independent assessment by your insurer if it states that the vehicle was undamaged. The fact that you were unaware of the incident suggests this is a scam with a contrived witness.
I would get a solicitor to represent me. Either way I am surprised that the police would not advise you what the evidence is against you. If they have an independent witness saying you nudged the bumper of the other car I am surprised it has reached this stage if there is no damage. If there was damage you have evidence that may contradict it from the insurance report. But even so they must have stated a time. Is there any way you could prove what you were doing that day at that time. If you were say interviewing a client at the time it might be useful to be able to tell the police this as the witness may then be in trouble.
I had an accident last year when someone reversed into me while I was stopped and she was trying to do a three point turn because they did not want to wait in a queue. Even at 5mph and without doing any damage the other driver could not have failed to notice the collision. We exchanged addresses, I reported it to my insurance company and the police but at no stage did I or anyone else suggest she should be prosecuted when there was no damage.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
I could have sworn when I first read the OP's post it said it happened in a works car park. Having re-read the post it says
So it may have been on the public road.
Fair point, I shall learn to read before commenting. lol
:beer:Some people don't exaggerate........... They just remember big!0
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