Accident whilst parked

mhindley87

We live un a rented social housing appartment. I parked my car in the car park where we have a designated parking bay. The car park has electric gates with access only via a programmes fob. The gates have not been working for around 3 months and have been reported by residents.
My car was parked in my designated bay - only for residents and another car has reversed out of the space next to mine who was a visitor of a resident and has gone into my car. There is £240 worth of damage. There was another resident who has seen what has happened abd knocked my door to tell me. I have calles my social housing landlord what has happened. They are saying that I parked my car at my own risk. I do agree but if the electric gates were working then the visitor would not have been able to drive into the car park unless loosed in with the fob. The address has all sorts of people coming and going as they are growing drugs in the house which has also been reported but the landlord has not taken action. If they would have taken action against both of these reports then I believe there would have not been damage to my car as these preventative measures would have been in place. Also there are no signs to state that you park the caes at your own risk. How do I stand with claiming the cost to the repair of my car. Do not want to go through insurance as it will cost £240. Have reported it to the police as we know which flat the person came out of an independent witness but they just do not care

neilmcl

And your question is?

Richard53

neilmcl wrote: »

And your question is?

mhindley87 wrote: »

How do I stand with claiming the cost to the repair of my car.

Not well-phrased or specific, but a question.


I suspect going through your own insurance is the only way here.

AndyMc.....

Do you have the registration number of the car that hit you?

missile

Claim on your insurance. With a witness this will be a no fault claim.
Report the vehicle to police, driving away from an accident is an offence with a heavy fine.
Report illegal substance abuse to police and encourage neighbours to do like wise. If the police have numerous calls they can and will get a warrant to raid property.
Report illegal substance abuse to your local councilor, MP & MEP.

Make enough fuss and tenant will move or be evicted, or sit on your hands and hope someone else has the bottle to do it for you.

elsien

This. ^^^
Your landlord is not going to pay.

lincroft1710

missile wrote: »

Report the vehicle to police, driving away from an accident is an offence with a heavy fine.

Would this still be the case as the incident happened on private land to which the general public have no right of access unlike a supermarket car park.

Car_54

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Would this still be the case as the incident happened on private land to which the general public have no right of access unlike a supermarket car park.

The issue is not whether the public have 'right' of access, but whether they can access it in practice. Normally, the presence of gates would be decisive, but in this case they haven't worked for months. One for the courts to decide, but obviously that's not going to happen ...

AndyMc.....

missile wrote: »

Claim on your insurance. With a witness this will be a no fault claim. Only if the insurance company recover their costs.
Report the vehicle to police, driving away from an accident is an offence with a heavy fine. The police aren't interested, is that because it's not a public place or because there is no reg number.
Report illegal substance abuse to police and encourage neighbours to do like wise. If the police have numerous calls they can and will get a warrant to raid property.
Report illegal substance abuse to your local councilor, MP & MEP.

Make enough fuss and tenant will move or be evicted, or sit on your hands and hope someone else has the bottle to do it for you.

For £240 it may not be worth the grief.

AndyMc.....

Car_54 wrote: »

The issue is not whether the public have 'right' of access, but whether they can access it in practice. Normally, the presence of gates would be decisive, but in this case they haven't worked for months. One for the courts to decide, but obviously that's not going to happen ...

It's not that straight forward, is your drive/front garden a public place?

Car_54

AndyMc..... wrote: »

It's not that straight forward, is your drive/front garden a public place?

Fair point, but my comment was in the context of an incident which occurred in a car park, not a front garden;).