Insured or not?

Johno100

dacouch wrote: »

I worked in a call centre a long long long time ago for a year, I was the only person in the front line who had any back ground in insurance. I used to amuse myself on late shifts by ringing up and pretending to be a customer. I would do calls such as I've just been registered totally blind and ask if they could send me a braille certificate & policy. It was not as PC then and I used to laugh when they rang through to the underwriting department (Who did understand Insurance) and ask how to print a Braille Certificate.

That remind me of West Midlands Police advertising a vacancy for a driver/chauffeur for the Chief Constable and stating the application form was also available in braille.:rotfl:

Spicy_McHaggis

Johno100 wrote: »

That remind me of West Midlands Police advertising a vacancy for a driver/chauffeur for the Chief Constable and stating the application form was also available in braille.:rotfl:

Doesn't surprise me with them.

To avoid upsetting anyone when they asked officers to declare who was in the lodge they asked women too and put a disabled lift at the back of a building so without going outside any wheelchair users would first have to negotiate a step.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

You're assuming it was inspected and he knew what he was talking about. Other than those few authorised to examine vehicles there is no training given.

cavework wrote: »

One of our company vans was involved in an accident today.
Police were called and our driver was advised by them that the vehicle was in a fit state to drive home.

original quote from OP;).


There's a difference between trained to examine and knowing whether the vehicle is in a fit state to be driven, i.e no sharp edges, no cracked rear or front lamps with burst bulbs for brake lights, and oil or water spilling everywhere all over the road to make it slick and pieces of sharp metal or plastic sticking out everywhere, missing bumpers and missing number plates you know the obvious defects that would otherwise get you a VDRS or a Fixed penalty for example not saying the OP's van is in this state as an example.


If it was the case that police are not authorized to examine except for a few to examine vehicles, then any car with a defect that's pulled could argue that in court if issued a fine and doesn't make sense to me as any police officer can identify many minor defects and issue fines or VDRS for them.


The question I was asking you as you seem to know these things, is that Would a competent police officer allow a driver to continue after an accident knowing he had no brake lights, sharp edges sticking out cracked windscreen to reduce visibility, SIPS/SABS blocking side windows for e.g?


I know there a few who can examine in more depth from training, some are trained in both collision investigation and vehicle defects, and so on and so forth, you never know he may have been one of these officers who examined it, its an assumption saying it wasn't and its an assumption saying it is but the OP said "an" officer did examine it that is something im not assuming.

cavework

Police officers were dealing with my staff ,it could be a 50-50 accident claim according to the policeman but the officer DID tell my employees that the van was in a fit condition to drive and he had a 'young' driver in tears sat in his patrol car.
This was the van driver who failed to stop and drove back along the road 10 mins later and pulled in way down the road after my staff were flagging him down as he passed the second time .. and after my staff had contacted the police as he did not stop immediately (on my advice) with the details of the vans sign
As for the 50-50.. we have trackers on all our company vehicles..
so if it is 50-50 fair enough but my insurance company are not ready to accept this...
anyway the main reason for this thread is how can you be sure you are covered by insurance after a minor accident if you then drive the vehicle home?