Neighbour hit my parked car, says I can't do anything about it

Confusedandneedhelp

dori2o wrote: »

Based on what i've read before only one of the 2 people party to the conversation need to give authority for the recording, and you're unlikely to refuse yourself permission to record.

As long as the recording is not played publicly or used in any illegal activity, it's fine.

It is however up to the judge to determine if the evidence wouold be admissable, but generally it depends how much the case determines on that evidence.

Im not sure this is accurate too, but only on the basis that i might record an incident to which i am not party to. (I being the generalised term of an individual, personally i have better things to do). For example, if recording an event witnessed, car crash for example.

DUTR

pvt wrote: »

That's 150% !!

If you add them up then yes, but I assumed readers were intelligent enough to understand the post.

OnanTheBarbarian

There is some real pish being spouted in this thread.

Forget the espionage and spy hunter techniques.

1- Get a quote for the repairs
2- Take pics of the damage to your car and the location where it was parked
3- Report it to your insurers (for information purposes if you don't want to go through your own policy)
4- Either deal with the third party directly by sending a letter to him with the estimated cost of repairs and giving him a period of time to stump up the repair and replacement car costs, or ask him to involve his insurers.
5- If he refuses, then either forget about the matter, or look at taking small claims court proceedings against him if you have legal cover with your car insurance, or do it yourself
6- Bum his dog

lovinituk

Confusedandneedhelp wrote: »

Logic:
CCTV releases published by the police clearly do not have consent from the suspect
Live news broadcasts clearly do not have consent of every member of the public

But many of those that are published these days have the faces blurred out to hide the identities. Look at most of the police reality shows now - you used to always see the faces but now they are mostly blurred out, including re-runs of much older episodes.

I have no idea on the correct answer, I've just always wondered why they now blur out identities.

DUTR

OnanTheBarbarian wrote: »

There is some real pish being spouted in this thread.

Forget the espionage and spy hunter techniques.

1- Get a quote for the repairs
2- Take pics of the damage to your car and the location where it was parked
3- Report it to your insurers (for information purposes if you don't want to go through your own policy)
4- Either deal with the third party directly by sending a letter to him with the estimated cost of repairs and giving him a period of time to stump up the repair and replacement car costs, or ask him to involve his insurers.
5- If he refuses, then either forget about the matter, or look at taking small claims court proceedings against him if you have legal cover with your car insurance, or do it yourself
6- Bum his dog

I agree with points 1-5 :cool:

Norman_Castle

DUTR wrote: »

If you add them up then yes, but I assumed readers were intelligent enough to understand the post.

80% of them are. The other 30% wouldn't have a clue.

dori2o

DUTR wrote: »

Dori2o , you don't need to go via insurance or courts, as PVT and OnanTheBarbarian will easily win your case even if the techniques are questionable, there is some misinformation being spouted as fact.
Parking opposing the traffic is and could be material, however before the debate starts, I shall put my bet on 75% the episode being forgotten about, 25% chance of the offending party admitting liability and 50% chance of it ending up split liability.

I wasn't parked opposing the traffic, there was no traffic and cannot be any traffic. It is the very end of the cul'de'sac. There was no more road ahead of me, only driveways.

The house is located directly besides the turning circle of the cul-de-sac, it isn't possible to park, in the direction of traffic.

If I had parked the other way around, i.e. I had reversed upto my parents drive, he would still have hit me, and I'd be having the offside door repaired.

I was parked on the entrance to my parents drive, just not on it.

The front of my car, i.e. the whole of the front of the car, was parked over the dropped pavement.

bod1467

OnanTheBarbarian wrote: »

6- Bum his dog

:eek:

Keep your proclivities to yourself thankyouverymuch!

OnanTheBarbarian

bod1467 wrote: »

:eek:

Keep your proclivities to yourself thankyouverymuch!

OK I'll blur the dog's face out in the video then:money:

peter_the_piper

I think I may have considered reporting the accident to the police, looks better on the insurance if you have done and he does no. Bonus would be his collar felt for failing to report.