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NEED URGENT ADVICE - Hit & Run
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Strider590 wrote: »OP, just so you understand, even if you find this person, your insurance premiums are going to go through the roof because your now a high risk driver (purely for being involved in an accident), so you need to decide whether this is worth pursuing or not.
Insurance companies have grown wise to the trend of "brake testing" tailgaters and as a result they treat anyone involved in a rear end collision as being higher risk.
Admit it, you've just made that up.0 -
Tothepoint. wrote: »Or he says the OP made off.
Since the effort has been made to contact the police, they may as well follow it through.
Van driver, if OP has the details, could prove otherwise (my mistake earlier calling it a tractor)
Video footage from OP phone showing car disappearing proves otherwise
OP calling police from scene supports their claim (phone triangulation could prove the case)Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Van driver, if OP has the details, could prove otherwise (my mistake earlier calling it a tractor)
Video footage from OP phone showing car disappearing proves otherwise
OP calling police from scene supports their claim (phone triangulation could prove the case)
For a damage only :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: you watch too much tv.0 -
Tothepoint. wrote: »Admit it, you've just made that up.
Of course............ Because insurers are totally oblivious to the fact that people often try to cause accidents when being tail gated, instead of just letting the lunatic go past.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Strider590 wrote: »Of course............ Because insurers are totally oblivious to the fact that people often try to cause accidents when being tail gated, instead of just letting the lunatic go past.
Ok, then show us some evidence that shows when you're hit from behind the insurance companies automatically conclude you were brake testing someone.0 -
Tothepoint. wrote: »For a damage only :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: you watch too much tv.
Phone triangulation from masts is accurate enough to prove OP was in the area when they called the police, how do you think they find people who crash and don't know where they are
Nice one for ignoring the other proof (witness and phone footage) showing you were wrongSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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OP - did you ask the lorry driver if he had a dashcam a lot of them do now.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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Phone triangulation from masts is accurate enough to prove OP was in the area when they called the police, how do you think they find people who crash and don't know where they are
Nice one for ignoring the other proof (witness and phone footage) showing you were wrong
As I said, it's a damage only accident. It won't happen.0 -
shaun_from_Africa wrote: »If they had a dashcam in their car then they wouldn't have needed to make a note of anything.
Fail here as per below part, What good is a dashcam when shunted in the rear.
Story: Some idiot behind me on a mobile phone was driving too close to me. I had to emergency stop on a country road because a van took a middle road position, and he went into the back of me.0 -
Your right about there being a fail. However, the fail wasn't in what I posted!Stevie_Palimo wrote: »Fail here as per below part, What good is a dashcam when shunted in the rear.
The reason for my comment about a dashcam was in direct response to an earlier comment about the driver of the car that hit the OP not having time to take their registration before speeding off and it was this driver that I stated could have obtained the registration details from a dashcam if they had one fitted.And in the guys great escape at what point did he stop to make a note of ops registration?shaun_from_Africa wrote: »If they had a dashcam in their car then they wouldn't have needed to make a note of anything.0
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