Damage to car alloy & tyre

Portly_Pig

Tomby1 wrote: »

I think everyone needs to step back and take a deep breath!

It's quite simple really;

OP, you will need to have proof that the parking position of this truck forced your husband to take evasive maneuvers, causing your husband to damage his vehicle.

I hope he ensured pictures were taken at tehe time of the truck parked and the car impact point - and ideally if an independent witness was present, it would have been extremely useful to get a statement from them that this truck was parked dangerously.

Can you upload a picture of the road, where the truck was positioned and where your husband came round the corner? This would help enormously.

Also, what approximate speed was your husband doing as he turned the corner? And how far, in approximate metres, was the truck parked from the initial point of visibility?

Based on the current information you have given, you'd have to get a very sympathetic underwriter to agree to your claim - but seeing those pictures would help.

Pictures and position of the truck will make no difference. He crashed, if he couldn't get past or through its time for foot on the brake.

andy111

KTF wrote: »

This thread is great. The OP will fight this one to the death...

Watch out, you'll be called a playground bully;)

27col

This thread is turning out to be a bit of a crashing bore.
How can you possibly think that someone who damages their car while avoiding a stationary vehicle in the road, is anything other than inattentive, or worse, careless.

Tomby1

Portly_Pig wrote: »

Pictures and position of the truck will make no difference. He crashed, if he couldn't get past or through its time for foot on the brake.

I would disagree - like I said, its up for the OP to show that the incident was unavoidable. Either she will have a case or will quickly realise that its a waste of time and effort to push this. There is nothing to say that the truck wasn't actually parked dangerously (granted, it would have to be exceptional circumstances)

Portly_Pig

Tomby1 wrote: »

I would disagree - like I said, its up for the OP to show that the incident was unavoidable. Either she will have a case or will quickly realise that its a waste of time and effort to push this. There is nothing to say that the truck wasn't actually parked dangerously (granted, it would have to be exceptional circumstances)

So what you're saying is the general rule of, you should be able to stop in via distance you can see to be clear, doesn't apply?

KTF

Tomby1 wrote: »

I would disagree - like I said, its up for the OP to show that the incident was unavoidable. Either she will have a case or will quickly realise that its a waste of time and effort to push this. There is nothing to say that the truck wasn't actually parked dangerously (granted, it would have to be exceptional circumstances)

Truck, skip, pile of bricks, child in the road after falling off their bike, whatever. It doesnt matter what the object is.

Tomby1

Portly_Pig wrote: »

So what you're saying is the general rule of, you should be able to stop in via distance you can see to be clear, doesn't apply?

No, I agree with you. As I said, the truck would have to be 'parked' in a way that could be seen as dangerously - basically, blocking the entire road, on the exact turn of a sharp, blind corner.

An example; If this was the car was on a national speed limit road, the husband was travelling at 30mph round the corner and the truck was just parked fully across the road, I think there would be some merit.
If this is a 30mph residential road and the truck is parked at the side of the road but is just a bit big for the road, theres nothing more to this.

As I said, exceptional circumstances. I wholeheartedly agree that its about a 1 in 10000 chance this is anything other than someone driving a bit too fast, or not paying full attention to the road, or both.

Portly_Pig

Tomby1 wrote: »

No, I agree with you. As I said, the truck would have to be 'parked' in a way that could be seen as dangerously - basically, blocking the entire road, on the exact turn of a sharp, blind corner.

An example; If this was the car was on a national speed limit road, the husband was travelling at 30mph round the corner and the truck was just parked fully across the road, I think there would be some merit.
If this is a 30mph residential road and the truck is parked at the side of the road but is just a bit big for the road, theres nothing more to this.

As I said, exceptional circumstances. I wholeheartedly agree that its about a 1 in 10000 chance this is anything other than someone driving a bit too fast, or not paying full attention to the road, or both.

Stop giving the op false hope. Two neighbours managed to miss it.

Tomby1

Portly_Pig wrote: »

Stop giving the op false hope. Two neighbours managed to miss it.

Surely it would make more sense to get the pictures, locations and speeds (where possible) and then if the OP is clearly in the wrong, she should quickly realise this is so. Just saying 'your husband was driving badly' is hardly going to make her nod her head and agree with the conclusion.

You can't make a definitive conclusion without all the evidence.

Portly_Pig

Tomby1 wrote: »

Surely it would make more sense to get the pictures, locations and speeds (where possible) and then if the OP is clearly in the wrong, she should quickly realise this is so. Just saying 'your husband was driving badly' is hardly going to make her nod her head and agree with the conclusion.

You can't make a definitive conclusion without all the evidence.

senoraylan wrote: »

Yesterday, a flatbed truck parked up in our close on the right hand side of the road very close to the junction which also has poor visibility because of a large hedge. He had to reverse once to let one of my neighbours into their driveway and another neighbours sounded their horn because of the danger he caused by parking like that.

My husband got home and as he came round the corner had to swing wide and hit the kerb (the road narrows at this point) damaging the O/S alloy wheel and taking a chunk out of the tyre and the kerb. He went and had words with the driver who told him there weren't any lines to say he couldn't park. We both told him, that as a professional driver, he should know not to park on a junction or to cause an obstruction. He then moved his truck.

Would the company be liable for the damage? We think it's put the tracking out too.

Speaks volumes does it not?
He knows the road.
Saw the truck.
Yet still swung wide when the road narrows.

I think the only evidence the op needs to post is why he didn't stop.