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mackers06

Original Poster:

36 posts

156 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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Posting for a friend,

He was in a car accident at the weekend, H was on a roundabout and was drove into by a 4x4 jeep, The girl drove off and only pulled in when he noticed she was being followed by him.

He only got her name and phone number due to being in shock (He is 86) and she called him on Saturday evening asking could her partner fix his car without involving insurance.

She is now not answering her phone and the police said they cannot investigate as they have no registration number.

Insurance company are taking the car away to be looked at and have stated they would need to get the registration of the 4x4

The damage is passenger door won’t open front wing, wheel and side of bumper broken off.

What would be our next port of call?

Du1point8

22,966 posts

223 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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hope and pray you can find some CCTV or do a bit of leg work and use the phone number you do have to work out who it is, and hope that you can get details off tt book or similar who the parnter is, cause it sounds like they work at a nearby menchanics.

That would be me for a starter.

tt book might even have her telephone number on as some people are so fecking stupid... so try googling the number first.

pork911

7,365 posts

214 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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return to the police

klingelton

70 posts

160 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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do some investigation work and help the police out. They'll be more willing to help if you can get as much information as you possibly can. They can't investigate every case to its fullest, there just isn't enough man power for that.

BlueMeganeII

338 posts

190 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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You've got a name and a phone number. PHers have tracked people down with less.

Tinseltom

2 posts

152 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en...

Try this, find address (based on town of crash/area code of phone number) and then drive past to get plate off parked jeep.

anonymous-user

85 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if this comes down as a 50:50 or your friend at fault, my reason for saying this the age of the driver. This isn't right or fair but does seem to be happening more often.

nipsips

1,167 posts

166 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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gottans said:
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this comes down as a 50:50 or your friend at fault, my reason for saying this the age of the driver. This isn't right or fair but does seem to be happening more often.
Absolute rubbish. If another insurer suggested my client was at fault for something simply because of their age I would literally laugh down the phone at them.

TwigtheWonderkid

49,270 posts

181 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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gottans said:
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this comes down as a 50:50 or your friend at fault, my reason for saying this the age of the driver. This isn't right or fair but does seem to be happening more often.
Have you got the slightest shred of evidence to back this up, that insurers of old people accept 50% liability automatically just because their client is old?

mackers06

Original Poster:

36 posts

156 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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Got Sorted smile Silly bint put everything on facebook. Police said they will be paying a visti this afternoon, Oh and by the looks of it she had no insurance.

thescamper

920 posts

257 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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mackers06 said:
Got Sorted smile Silly bint put everything on facebook. Police said they will be paying a visti this afternoon, Oh and by the looks of it she had no insurance.
Gotta love social media.

JQ

6,883 posts

210 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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mackers06 said:
Got Sorted smile Silly bint put everything on facebook. Police said they will be paying a visti this afternoon, Oh and by the looks of it she had no insurance.
Make sure you screen print everything, no doubt as soon as they call everything will disappear. We really do share the roads with some morons.

Du1point8

22,966 posts

223 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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mackers06 said:
Got Sorted smile Silly bint put everything on facebook. Police said they will be paying a visti this afternoon, Oh and by the looks of it she had no insurance.
ttbook wins again...

Some people are so stupid.

SiH

1,858 posts

278 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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Brilliant. Talk about being hoisted on one's own petard!

Monty Python

4,813 posts

228 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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mackers06 said:
Got Sorted smile Silly bint put everything on facebook. Police said they will be paying a visti this afternoon, Oh and by the looks of it she had no insurance.
Link?

Martin4x4

6,506 posts

163 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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mackers06 said:
Got Sorted smile Silly bint put everything on facebook. Police said they will be paying a visti this afternoon, Oh and by the looks of it she had no insurance.
Go on, post a screen shot.

mackers06

Original Poster:

36 posts

156 months

Friday 11th April 2014
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Martin4x4 said:
Go on, post a screen shot.
Her facebook is now deleted and screenprints handed over to the plod, Sorry folks