Car accident claiming back costs

Carobslime

concert started 7pm in central london - not a chance of getting there, with kids dropped off

Carobslime

our car basically was blocking a slip road for most of that time.

Aylesbury_Duck

Here's the process for making a claim: https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money/overview

What AdrianC is getting at is that you will have to show that you did everything you could have done to mitigate your losses. You have no case for the Liverpool concert because you could have attended that by various transport methods but chose not to.

Carobslime

Fair play yes i get that

but if companies seriously think I would abandon my car and/or my children to get a cab for mega money to then hire a car to then possibly miss it anyway, id rather not bother!

i totally get where you are coming from, and thank you, but it is just so wrong that these compaies are very keen for me to have an injury - I even had to get my children to speak on the phone to say they were ok after the incident as they would not take my word for it, but its so hard to claim a genuine cost. The world really has gone mad

Aylesbury_Duck

Carobslime wrote: »

yes because i had my two young children in the car with me - they were going to be dropped at their aunties.

we were in the middle of nowhere (bodmin moor basically) and were told by police to stay with car - as did they til about 1pm

One of you could have stayed with the car, the other plus the kids could have travelled onwards.

Carobslime wrote: »

concert started 7pm in central london - not a chance of getting there, with kids dropped off

But you could have made it to London by 7pm, thereby only wasting one ticket.

Carobslime wrote: »

our car basically was blocking a slip road for most of that time.

I'm not sure of the relevance of this?

My comments may come across as critical, but these are the points the other party would make in response to your claim.

Carobslime

Your comments dont across as critical at all. I asked for advice and this is what you are providing me with. I appreciate that.

Carobslime

I think what I have learnt from this is that it's not worth bothering with.

thank you.

Aylesbury_Duck

Carobslime wrote: »

Fair play yes i get that

but if companies seriously think I would abandon my car and/or my children to get a cab for mega money to then hire a car to then possibly miss it anyway, id rather not bother!

Again, that's your choice, but a defendant would argue that you'd rather not bother to reduce your losses?

Carobslime wrote: »

i totally get where you are coming from, and thank you, but it is just so wrong that these compaies are very keen for me to have an injury - I even had to get my children to speak on the phone to say they were ok after the incident as they would not take my word for it, but its so hard to claim a genuine cost. The world really has gone mad

Put the personal injury business to one side. It's entirely irrelevant to a possible claim for your wasted tickets. The world hasn't gone mad (not entirely, anyway) - the small claims process is generally very fair and balanced. Put yourself in the third party's shoes. Would you just pay up in full knowing that the claimant hadn't put every effort in to try and reduce the size of the claim against you?

Aylesbury_Duck

Carobslime wrote: »

Your comments dont across as critical at all. I asked for advice and this is what you are providing me with. I appreciate that.

Thanks. There are a lot of posters who don't take that approach and lash out when they don't get the answer they were hoping for!

Aylesbury_Duck

Carobslime wrote: »

I think what I have learnt from this is that it's not worth bothering with.

thank you.

I think you're right, unfortunate as it is. At the end of the day, you were the victim of what sounds like a nasty accident that with just a tiny change of circumstances such as a different speed, position of other cars, etc., could have seriously hurt your family, or worse. Some lost tickets isn't a bad outcome in the grand scheme of things.