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Rtc police report contains inaccuracies, help please
Last year I was a front seat passenger in my car, being driven by my husband. (Named driver on my insurance). Luckily, no-one else was in the car with us.
We waited, stationery, behind a couple of cars at a set of red traffic lights. Suddenly we were struck from behind by a bus, which caused our car to jolt forward and the impact spun my car round on the spot.
My car was written off, and within a couple of weeks, my insurers had paid the settlement figure for the car.
The blame was entirely put with the bus driver, as his vehicle had cctv footage showing him smashing into the rear end of my stationery car.
Weeks of physio followed for by OH and myself, and I received - and am still receiving NHS support.
Fast forward seven months, a letter from the Police advising the bus driver had attended a Driver Alertness Course, as an alternative to prosecution. It also stated that the Police file would now be closed and I was at liberty to obtain a copy of the 'appropriate papers'. I paid, because I wanted a copy and this arrived yesterday.
I respect that the Data Protection Act restricts certain disclosures, but copies of everyone's statements, including my husband's, two passengers on the bus and a pedestrian were received, but not that of the bus driver.
Why would they release copies of these other statements, but not that of the bus driver?
I have noted that the two uninjured passengers that were travelling (and were witnesses) on the bus, have been mistakenly recorded on the Official Report, as being passengers in my car!
I want this error corrected Had I had rear seat passengers in my now written-off Fiesta, serious injuries were likely to have been sustained by them.
But as the report falsely stated them to have been uninjured rear seat passengers in my car this gives me little doubt as to how much of a factor that had on the decision not to prosecute the bus driver,
Does anyone know what procedure I should go through to lodge a formal complaint, please?
We waited, stationery, behind a couple of cars at a set of red traffic lights. Suddenly we were struck from behind by a bus, which caused our car to jolt forward and the impact spun my car round on the spot.
My car was written off, and within a couple of weeks, my insurers had paid the settlement figure for the car.
The blame was entirely put with the bus driver, as his vehicle had cctv footage showing him smashing into the rear end of my stationery car.
Weeks of physio followed for by OH and myself, and I received - and am still receiving NHS support.
Fast forward seven months, a letter from the Police advising the bus driver had attended a Driver Alertness Course, as an alternative to prosecution. It also stated that the Police file would now be closed and I was at liberty to obtain a copy of the 'appropriate papers'. I paid, because I wanted a copy and this arrived yesterday.
I respect that the Data Protection Act restricts certain disclosures, but copies of everyone's statements, including my husband's, two passengers on the bus and a pedestrian were received, but not that of the bus driver.
Why would they release copies of these other statements, but not that of the bus driver?
I have noted that the two uninjured passengers that were travelling (and were witnesses) on the bus, have been mistakenly recorded on the Official Report, as being passengers in my car!
I want this error corrected Had I had rear seat passengers in my now written-off Fiesta, serious injuries were likely to have been sustained by them.
But as the report falsely stated them to have been uninjured rear seat passengers in my car this gives me little doubt as to how much of a factor that had on the decision not to prosecute the bus driver,
Does anyone know what procedure I should go through to lodge a formal complaint, please?
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What is it you want ? if you simply want to make a complaint against police, ring up your local force and tell them you wish to see an Inspector to make a complaint against police, or go online and do it through your own force website, the IPCC are not involved at this stage.
If it is against the CPS, the CPS decided upon a driver improvement scheme for the driver, which is a common outcome for collisions, it is designed to rectify a fault, rather than punish in cost alone, if you simply want a pound of flesh in monetary value from the drivers pocket, then you won't get it, he will already have had to pay for the NDIS
The mistake as to the passengers coming from the bus and not your back seat is completely immaterial, likewise the wholesale scamming of insurance companies in made up injuries of whipcash, despite millions and millions being spent by manufacturers on building safer cars, also has no bearings upon the final outcome as to how to deal with the offending bus driver, NDIS is the way the majority of offending drivers are dealt with and this is still seen by the police and insurance companies as a prosecution, or admission of guilt, whatever you want to call it
You would not be given the interview notes between the driver and the police, he is not a third party witness, he is not a witness, he is the offender and the notes are nothing to do with you, and at the end of the day, the driver and his insurance company are to blame and they will cough up, they are not trying to get out of it, you are simply reading too much into it and are distracting yourself over minutia, the case is settled, it won't be reopened, overturned etc, and the bus driver will not be hung drawn and quartered.0 -
Id let it lie. And I also wouldnt have wasted best part of 90 quid to find out plod arent good at paper work.0
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As happychappy says, what do you want here?
You've had a full insurance payout, and have been found to be not at fault. You are back(ish) to where you would have been if the incident had not happened.
Anything above and beyond that is irrelevant, as far as restitution to you is concerned. The outcome of any prosecution decision is not your business.0 -
......But as the report falsely stated them to have been uninjured rear seat passengers in my car this gives me little doubt as to how much of a factor that had on the final decision not to prosecute that bus driver,
Does anyone know what procedure I should go through to lodge a very formal complaint, please?
All this is irrelevant to your pay out for your injuries if that's what you are concerned about. (Paying £88 for irrelevant papers wasn't very moneysaving either)0 -
Having never been in a situation of claiming on my car insurance, let alone for someone else's negligence, I posted here, hopeful of advice. The official Police Report contains inaccuracies.
Not to be criticised for asking.
My question was who should I direct my complaint to, I mentioned nothing about any PI claim.
I did not ask the bus driver to write my car off, and my interest in how any fair decision can be made, when the inaccuracies are in black and white.
I only received the report in yesterdays post, so was unaware until then that the errors existed.
Sorry to have bothered you, I'll take my enquiry to another forum.0 -
You didn't mention your PI claim, but what is your motivation for unnecessarily shelling out £88 over this issue?0
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Cannot see whatyour complaint is. What difference does it make to you if the driver is prosecuted or not? Just sounds like an accident.0
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The official Police Report contains inaccuracies.
Yes, it did. But those inaccuracies have not affected anything material. They might conceivably have affected the direction of blame, but they haven't - after all, the bus driver has been held 100% at fault. So the inaccuracies are irrelevant. What purpose will correcting them serve? The police case won't be re-opened. The insurance has been resolved.I'll take my enquiry to another forum.
And what if you get the same answer there?
B'sides, you've already had the answer as to who to complain to - the IPCC. First reply. You even thanked the person who posted that.0 -
Cannot see whatyour complaint is. What difference does it make to you if the driver is prosecuted or not? Just sounds like an accident.
The point that the OP is trying to make is that the powers that be have made a decision when there are inaccuracies in the evidence gathered.
I haven't once seen them suggest they want a prosecution, just that they're unhappy there were errors in the investigation.
I think any victim would expect a fair and proper investigation and it isn't too much to ask for.What will your verse be?
R.I.P Robin Williams.0
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