albundy68 Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 just been to BP garage in company prius, im trying to get off the main road into the station and this dippy woman in a giant toyota saloony thing is sat on edge waiting, my (cars) arse is still sitting out on main road so i pull in (slooooooowly) as close as poss behind her so traffic on main road can get past, i felt no contact, but she jumps out sayin ive hit her, (if, and i mean IF) i did it was at about 0.1mph and like i said i felt no contact, anyway, i got her to pull in, and there was a tiny scratch, (poss even just a mark) on her rear bumper, she insisted on gettin my details so i gave em, now im brikkin it that she'll make a claim, itd be on the company policy, (so trouble) and last thing i need is a claim to declare on my supe insurance, so if she does claim, can i deny touching her, or would i have no chance? any advice gents? (and ladies) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D8MOA Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 ask the petrol station for cctv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmark Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Used to be a manager in a petrol station we used to get a lot of this people asking for the tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albundy68 Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 dont think cctv would help, itd only show me getting very close to her bumper and waving franticly to try n get her to pull forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Sit tight for a while, i doubt she'll even claim if its hardly anything, maybe heat of the moment that she took your details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D8MOA Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 shows you didnt hit her hard at least! no reason for her to claim wiplash etc, ide ask them for a recording anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albundy68 Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 yeah could be that she wont claim, if she did theres no proof the scratch wasnt there before, so surely its her word against mine isnt it? i shouldnt have thought whiplash etc could be claimed, because the (lack of) damage would be enough to show it was a tiny impact, (if any) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-macca Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Any damage to your Prius at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albundy68 Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 Any damage to your Prius at all? i didnt even look! company car, its covered in scratches anyway, i doubt i'd be able to tell if there was a new one, good point though, ill go have a look... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downimpact Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Sounds like shes trying it on, best action is always to take photos of suspected damage. My old man went into the back of a van at a roundabout at about2 miles an hour no scratch on the van. The guy later tried to claim for whiplash, new rear bumper etc got £300 insurance company wouldn't dispute it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albundy68 Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 i cant even see any disruption to the layer of muck on the prius, but it is dark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I had much the same as this in a hospital carpark - only difference was that I did slightly scrape the cars wheel arch. Woman wasn't at all phased because there were a couple of other small scrapes already. I insisted on giving her my details anyway even though she swore she wasn't going to tell her insurers. Of course, I didn't bother reporting it either. A couple of months later I had a shitty call from my insurers asking why I hadn't reported an accident I'd had. Turns out the woman HAD reported the bump - and was claiming about a thousand for a respray! I explained the situation but, despite my insistence that it was only a very small scratch that would definitely have come out with T-Cut and the woman was trying it on, they didn't dispute the claim. There's a moral there somewhere, nowadays I always carry a camera in the car... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-macca Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Some people are just pure bastards aren't they Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albundy68 Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 to be fair, i probably p*ssed her off because i was behind her waving her forward because she was blatently blocking the entrance with loads of room in front of her and i was blocking the main road because she wouldnt move forwards and let me past, so hopefully she was just annoyed, and wont see any point in claiming for the worlds smallest scratch, that i still maintain i didnt do, oh i dont know, you live and learn i guess, next time ill just block up the road and let everyone behind me wait... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewie Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Well lets hope her car gets written off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millsy Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Women shouldn't be allowed cars. By the way that's just bitterness still from the woman who drove into my Supra last week then claimed it was my fault. Thought I'd clarify before I get shot at by lady members here. But it's true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albundy68 Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 Well lets hope her car gets written off. blummin hope not, ...but knowing my luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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