stillonhere Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Hi I've got a question I hope someone can answer... Someone drove too closely to my parked car a few weeks ago and smashed my wing mirror, knocking his off in the process. I was sat in the car having just picked up my son at the time and the bloke stopped, apologised and said he'd speak to work (his was a company car) about what to do. He's now been in touch saying he wants my full details, address, insurance details, etc, and it's started alarm bells ringing. I was assuming (naively?) they'd just ask me to get quotes for the repair and pay for the damage. I'm worried that in asking for my insurance details, they're going to try and push some of the blame onto me. Does anyone know if this is standard practice or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeeeeeeeeek Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 You need to swap details, very unlikely his company won't want to through its insurance. just Get all his details and pass them to your insurance if you are worried Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 He can't really say the parked car hit him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrannyGranny Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 If there are no witnesses he can say what he wants if he doesn't want to pay himself. Its just his word against the OP's. Lets hope his company will pay and that will be the end of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkertelecoms Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 He can't really say the parked car hit him. You'd be surprised Someone I know was parked up, got shunted and the other party is pursuing a whiplash claim against the parked car... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 If someone isn't injured there is no obligation to exchange insurance details. All that you have to supply is name and address. It's only if there is an injury to anyone that you have to exchange insurers as well. It's quite handy to stop spurious claims - if they don't have the insurers they realise that they will ahve to get to them via you and that's often enough to put them off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonjon Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Assuming you were parked legally I doubt there will be any issue, its just formalities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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