car windscreen chip, who is liable

BeenThroughItAll

OP, do you by any chance live on a council estate in the North East? Throwing stones at cars was a pretty common game for the four year old street children of my former neighbours.

odemwingie5

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

Rule on the side your little darling wouldn't do such a thing.

innocent till proven guilty, my son or not.

Silver-Surfer_2

odemwingie5 wrote: »

innocent till proven guilty, my son or not.

Well as he was seen to do it by a neighbour who knows him I'd say there's not much doubt about his guilt.

odemwingie5

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

OP, do you by any chance live on a council estate in the North East? Throwing stones at cars was a pretty common game for the four year old street children of my former neighbours.

unfortunately i'm a southern softie and such hubbub isn't general occurance, hence why i don't really know where i stand if he did indeed throw the stones and damage the cars

AdrianC

odemwingie5 wrote: »

hence why i don't really know where i stand if he did indeed throw the stones and damage the cars

I'd have thought the answer to that was self-evident.

Turn the situation around. If somebody else's child had thrown stones at your car and chipped the windscreen, wouldn't you expect the parents to pay...?

odemwingie5

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

Well as he was seen to do it by a neighbour who knows him I'd say there's not much doubt about his guilt.

the word of a neighbour who i now doubt anything he says due to the fact he would like to claim that a Large chip in the windscreen was caused by my son when i believe he full well knew that chip existed already as like i have said before about the velocity it would take to create such a chip and the fact that my 4 year old throws like a...............well a 4 year old

odemwingie5

we're going round in circles

odemwingie5

AdrianC wrote: »

I'd have thought the answer to that was self-evident.

Turn the situation around. If somebody else's child had thrown stones at your car and chipped the windscreen, wouldn't you expect the parents to pay...?

but if you had doubt that the damage was caused by your child would you pay?
like i've said, i cannot definitively say that my lad wasn't throwing stones but i can with a lot of confidence say that the original chip claimed was not as i have spoken to a few people including autoglass who said " I wouldn't have thought that such small stones would cause a star shaped chip of that size, they would have have to have been thrown with quite some force"

Silver-Surfer_2

odemwingie5 wrote: »

we're going round in circles

What do you want us to say? Your question was answered in #2, that's the legal stance, morals are down to you, you're the one who has to live there.

Silver-Surfer_2

odemwingie5 wrote: »

but if you had doubt that the damage was caused by your child would you pay?
like i've said, i cannot definitively say that my lad wasn't throwing stones but i can with a lot of confidence say that the original chip claimed was not as i have spoken to a few people including autoglass who said " I wouldn't have thought that such small stones would cause a star shaped chip of that size, they would have have to have been thrown with quite some force"

The throwing of stones is a given, he did it, he was seen and you cannot defend him. As to the damage, I've seen a screen break when someone tapped on it with a knuckle, I've hit a side window on more than one occasion with a metal bar and it hasn't broken. It's possible he did crack it when he threw the stone.

Have you asked him about it?