crash

[will_salem]

recently i got a big loan out of my bank and bought saxo 3 weeks ago today and had a bad crash with a motorbike on the rear side of my car yesterday tea time , it was the motorbikes fault as a was making a right turn and checked my mirror coming down a hill and never saw him but all of a sudden bang he hit me , he was badly injured and went to hospital the problem is he is saying it was my fault that a never indicated (but a did) and am saying it was his so am in a bit of a pickle and hope everything goes right al try and get some pics up to you

[JamieB]

unlucky to here about your accident mate!! how badly is the saxo damaged??

by the sounds of things, it sound like its your word against his! if you can get/find witnesses that saw the accident and can say that they saw you indicating before you turned then that will help in your favour

if you need someone to host the pics of your crash, email them to me at jamie_burrows_85@hotmail.com and i will host em for ya

[Dan]

hey mate hope ya alright! if u indicated and checked all ya mirrors then i dont see there being a problem because as u say u did everything u were supposed to. its just a way of prooving it! were there witnesses?

[will_salem]

aye the me car is in a bit of a state its most the drivers side door the door post is completly bend and the area round the petrol cap , aswell the impact has like pushed me car over the other side hard to explain but the passeneger side is alll dinted aswell, its like its twisted all of it , cheers for the adive as there was a few people around at the time

al get them pics taken and sent to you soon as a can

[JamieB]

hope you can get it fixed, sounds like there is a bit of work to be done!!!

send the pics as and when you can and i will stick them up in this thread for you ok!! smileys/smiley20.gif send me a pm once you have sent me them

[al_VTR]

sounds like a bad one mate. hope you can get the car sorted, at least you're ok. smileys/smiley4.gif

fingers crossed that it goes in your favour. you could really do with some witnesses though.

[DevilDamo]

Hope everything works out for you mate.

Be careful because I take it you have seen the...

"Now you see him, now you don't" advert on television.

[will_salem]

just been on the phone to the insurance there and they said they could give me a hire car untill everything gets sorted,a was happy with this but me dad said because me and the bloke are argueing over whos fault it was if it comes out in that i was in the wrong i will have to pay for the hire car is this ture

[WalzVTR]

ok, calm down my friend. Even if you did not indicate it wont be your automatically your fault. Indicators are not a 'legally binding# thingymebob! I.E if you are in a side road and the car on main road is indicating to turn off, so you pull out but he doesnt turn off and crash it would be your fault. Hope this helps, it should go in your favour mate.

All the best

Lee smileys/smiley2.gif

[starkie]

ahh shit m8... hope everythign gets sorted.. gd luck

[webvtr]

hope all goes well for you

[DevilDamo]

how old are you will_salem?

did you also know that as soon as you report an accident, it is considered YOUR fault unless proved otherwise!?!

i found this out as after i had one of my accidents. i telephoned my insurance company and they had removed two years no claims bonus, but if the accident turned out to be another persons fault (which it was) then the no claims bonus would be re-instated.

[will_salem]

i am 18 , and a didnt no that it is considered my fault unless proven, so does that work the other way when the bloke reported it , it is considered his fault aswell unless proven,

could u tell me rufferly what happened in the accident you were name mate

[DevilDamo]

both parties are at fault unless proved otherwise (i.e. no claims bonus of both parties are removed and then MAY be put back on depending on the outcome).

the one i was talking about was a little knock in a car park. cars were parking and a woman in a 4x4 in front of me tried to turn into a space, but realised she wasnt going to make it. so, she reversed and the spare wheel on the boot put a nice crease in my off side wing.

i had a courtesy car, etc... which i paid for and also paid the excess to get my car back. as soon as she was found to be guilty, i had it all refunded, but it did take a while. that is only because i was with a cheap insurance company.

cheap insurance = cheap service

[SaxoAL]

May be worth seeing if you can check out any surrounding CCTV cameras for viewing of you indicating, or as said, if witesses give statements.

Surely the motorcycle should have been overtaking though? of was it just on a road with a side road next to it, or was it a junction ?