pathetic whip lash claims

[TheEnd]

406highlander said:

I'm *still* getting calls from ambulance-chasing lawyers, sometimes twice a week, telling me I could be entitled to ££££ as a result of the accident I was involved in.

You'll get that anyway, they are just fishing.

I tore into one girl who started with the "Our records show..." and I told her I wasn't in any accident.
She then asked if it might have been someone else in the house, which a) there wasn't, and b) why would they have given my mobile number.

I just told her there was no list, and the whole thing was just bullst.

[anonymous-user]

Mave said:

...but that doesn't tell you about strain, only force. Have you ever been walking along and jarred your back when the floor is suddenly lower than you expected? The peak g-levels are hugely lower than jumping off a wall for example, but because you're not expecting it your muscles don't protect the joint.

err no, I haven't, anyway

The biggest hits tend to happen when you're blindsided as then the opportunity to properly line you up is easier, so you're not expecting it.

this type of scenario - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxLoS0k-68g or one from schoolboy level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7GWGHTkMlM

And having had hits like this (not as hard as the first, I wouldn't ever have wanted to take a hit from Brian Lima..) I did not get whiplash.

So, were the collisions bigger than the 10-15mph being discussed here, yes, were many unexpected again yes. Did whiplash occur, no.

[John D.]

406highlander said:

In November 2010, when I was buying my current car, some total bell-end hit my old car in his works van. My car had been perfectly legally parked by the side of the main road (tiny little town in the Scottish borders). When I got back to my car, my front wing and both driver's side doors were buckled, dented, scraped and scratched, right down to the metal. There was a large piece of grey plastic bumper trim from some kind of big van lying on the road beside my car. His van was on the opposite side of the street and would have had to swerve right across the centre line and the right-side of the road in order to hit my car the way he did.

Some witnesses told me what had happened, but had failed to write down his registration number or remembered the name of the company whose logo was on the side of the van, despite him apparently hanging around for 5 mins asking if anyone knew whose car this was. The guy piled back into his van and then left, and didn't leave any kind of note with contact information or insurance details - something else that seriously boils my piss, but that's a whole different topic.

I'm *still* getting calls from ambulance-chasing lawyers, sometimes twice a week, telling me I could be entitled to ££££ as a result of the accident I was involved in. This, despite nobody being in the car at the time. My insurance company (at the time) must have sold my details to one (or more) of them, despite their having full knowledge that nobody was injured, and the car was legally parked.

Had similar after my parked car was hit. I at least witnessed it happening despite not being in it!

What annoys me about the whole thing is the ambulance chasers clearly get their info from your own insurance company.

[Mave]

wsurfa said:

And having had hits like this (not as hard as the first, I wouldn't ever have wanted to take a hit from Brian Lima..) I did not get whiplash.

So, were the collisions bigger than the 10-15mph being discussed here, yes, were many unexpected again yes. Did whiplash occur, no.

It's not just about the speed. It's also about the direction and whether you're ready for it. I would guess that people playing rugby have learned and trained to protect their neck, just like when I used to do karate I learned to protect my solar plexus all the time, whether I saw a shot coming or not.

[Chlamydia]

McSam said:

Chlamydia said:

THIS is where a dash cam comes in handy. A colleague of mine hit a car from behind at a roundabout when the car pulled away and then stopped - no excuses from him though and he accepted he was at fault. The one person in the car though suddenly became a whole family of people by the time the claim came through. His dash cam footage soon put a stop to that.

And were the other party charged with fraud?

He asks, depressingly knowing the answer damn well already..

Yes they were prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law... or not, to be more precise. The whiplash claims of the people who weren't there were thrown out but the driver's was still accepted and nobody was done for fraud.

Hoink said:

I would have kept the footage quiet until the last possible moment.

He didn't point it out to the other driver but he mentioned it on his claim form along with the photo's of the damage.

[Chardashcam]

Mave said:

Back in the real world, even if our premiums have gone up 20% due to whiplash claims, the other 80% is due to the people having the accident in the first place. Think how much cheaper our insurance would be if people didn't drive into the back of people!

Hello - first post (please be kind!) hope I do ok... the Insurance Fraud Bureau recently released some fascinating stats (well, interesting for me anyway...) - apparently our annual insurance bill is £50 more expensive because of Crash for Cash, they estimate it's worth hundreds of millions per year now.

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Edited by jeremyc on Tuesday 21st October 16:49