Someone I know crashed in to a roundabout - Advice please!

[SimonSh]

In doing so they went through one of the chevron signs on the roundabout and took out 2 of its posts - they are (optimistically I think) wanting to repair the car without advising their insurance company and are therefore looking to also pay for the damaged signage themselves if/when the council invoices them. (The police attended and so I am guessing they will inform the council of the signage damage)

My question is does anyone have a decent educated guess at to the likely cost of the roundabout "furniture"??

[SimonSh]

Thanks Rix - What is that guesstimate based on? (I'm not being cheeky - it's just the individual concerned will ask me the same question!!)

[SimonSh]

Are these figures based on experience or just guesses? I really need to know because I may be able to persuade them to just go via insurance instead of potentially ending up with a part repaired car and a council debt

[SimonSh]

vonhosen said:

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/parkingtransportandstr...

Thanks for that vonhosen!!! Looks like it will be rough equivalent of 2 regulatory signs on new posts (Although there could be additional costs for removing damaged old ones) so yes around £1k seems likely.

Thanks all who contributed!!

[SimonSh]

Mezzanine said:

Surely if the police attended the insurance company will automatically be informed/become aware of the incident?

I await someone who works in insurance to correct me but surely the police don't report an accident they attend to a drivers insurer. At the most they would assist in making sure drivers have exchanged details and are in fact insured in the first place??