Someone crashed into my parked car and is now claiming it was illegally parked, please help

ozzy1211

Herzlos wrote: »

Presumably there's a load of paint transfer on your car, does that match with the MX5 she claims hit it, in terms of colour and height? It's a pretty low car.




That's a fairly open road, you couldn't have caused any obstruction. It sounds like she's come round the corner on the wrong side late at night and gone straight into it.


Might also be worth having a nosey on facebook to see if she was posted from a pub/club before the incident, because it sounds like she must have been pretty drunk.

There was black paint transfer on the debris from my car I found, there wasn't a great deal on the car itself as the point of impact on my car was around the low headlight area and it was turned into the debris.

I had a nose on social media but no luck unfortunately

ozzy1211

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

Has the OP collected up the debris from the site, and does this match the vehicle details given? It's hard to imagine an MX5 pushing another car (even a Yaris) that far up the road, having just smashed in to it - especially if the Yaris had been parked in gear. It's not an insignificant distance its been pushed, and then up a kerb as well. So it either rolled with sufficient force that it mounted the kerb and continued, or the MX5 driver (if indeed it was an MX5) hit the Yaris and then continued to drive against the Yaris, pushing it further back.

I did indeed, it seems to match the black MX5 she claimed to be driving.

TP said she was driving "slowly" but also admitted that she was lucky to have survived and her car had smoke bellowing from it. I have no idea how she drove her car away from the scene and why.

My car not only mounted the curb, it completely knocked down a pillar on the priority chicane and bent another in half before coming to rest. My suspicion is that it was pushed after impact.

ozzy1211

Mercdriver wrote: »

Sure it's not a CX5? That is higher and heavier than the mx5

TP was quite clear that it was an MX5 and the registration she provided matches that. Although we have no idea if that was the actual car involved in the accident as she fled the scene with her car and only returned after it had been towed from an unspecified location.

AndyMc.....

Tilt wrote: »

Well obviously there is. A potential offence (or offences) has been committed and as such, the TP's insurers can't really wriggle out of liability.

In my experience it speeds thing up a bit because it's less for the respective insurers to argue about.

At best they can prove a technical fail to stop.

Tilt wrote: »

Hmm. Well it stinks of a driver driving while incapable so at least they should 'mark' the TP driver's card.

Or they could be covering for an uninsured driver.

How would you suggest they mark their card?

AndyMc.....

Mercdriver wrote: »

Sure it's not a CX5? That is higher and heavier than the mx5

Or he's left the handbrake off/it's not as good as it should be.

ozzy1211

AndyMc..... wrote: »

Or he's left the handbrake off/it's not as good as it should be.

Handbrake was very much on, as its one of the first things I checked upon discovering the car and I've never had any problems with the handbrake performance.