Car hit - insurance (etc) advice sought please

Hermione_Granger

Aretnap wrote: »

All drivers who cause car accidents are committing criminal offences - careless driving if nothing else

Not all of them.
If a driver causes an accident as the result of a medical issue of which they had no prior knowledge (such as a first time heart attack) or something totally involuntary and out of their control (such as a sneezing fit) then they may well have a legal defence of automatism and if so, they are not liable in any way nor have they committed any offence.

Valli

ratrace It is; it's so unfair. It appears (though it's unclear) that the driver may have been being chased by the police at the time - and he took a wrong turn into a quiet residential street - I think he was aiming for the major road her road is parallel to. And at least she knows who hit it. Plenty of people come out to find battered cars and the driver's done a runner.

But, she wasn't in the car, she's safe and that's what matters.

jk0

I wonder if the other car was stolen? I mean who on earth runs from the police in their own car?

shaun_from_Africa

jk0 wrote: »

I wonder if the other car was stolen? I mean who on earth runs from the police in their own car?

Someone who is drunk or high and who wants to get away and sober up before the police have a chance to breathalyze or drug test them perhaps.

Valli

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Someone who is drunk or high and who wants to get away and sober up before the police have a chance to breathalyze or drug test them perhaps.

Just had a text from DD. He was drunk and has hit three cars. And it was this morning!


She also has drivers details now.