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[Kevin Wood]

First thing you need to do, IMHO, is to report the failure to stop to the Police. They may be inclined to send someone to the yard for a nosey around and, if they are going to get defensive, the sooner the better.

Second thing to do is to get your insurance company / legal cover working on chasing them. If it's as clear cut as you say, they will get very keen on extracting a settlement from them rather than paying out, and they have more legal clout than you alone.

Kevin

[Vamps]

First thing you need to do, IMHO, is to report the failure to stop to the Police. They may be inclined to send someone to the yard for a nosey around and, if they are going to get defensive, the sooner the better.

Second thing to do is to get your insurance company / legal cover working on chasing them. If it's as clear cut as you say, they will get very keen on extracting a settlement from them rather than paying out, and they have more legal clout than you alone.

Kevin

I fear that contacting the Police, in particular, and his Insurance company is now to late, the Police certainly will not be interested now, given the time scales. I do not want to give bad news but I would guess this will end up as a 50/50, I do hope I am proved wrong

[Kevin Wood]

First thing you need to do, IMHO, is to report the failure to stop to the Police. They may be inclined to send someone to the yard for a nosey around and, if they are going to get defensive, the sooner the better.

Second thing to do is to get your insurance company / legal cover working on chasing them. If it's as clear cut as you say, they will get very keen on extracting a settlement from them rather than paying out, and they have more legal clout than you alone.

Kevin

I fear that contacting the Police, in particular, and his Insurance company is now to late, the Police certainly will not be interested now, given the time scales. I do not want to give bad news but I would guess this will end up as a 50/50, I do hope I am proved wrong

You're probably right. In hindsight, pursuing the truck was probably the wrong course of action. Getting his number plate and reporting it to the Police, and remaining at the scene and finding a witness would have been better. Still, the red mist descends on such occasions and we don't necessarily do the right thing.

Kevin

[Del Boy]

Will ring the Police when I get up in the morning  Did mean to do it earlier, but I totally forgot to be honest. May have to ring my insurance company too then.

[Vamps]

First thing you need to do, IMHO, is to report the failure to stop to the Police. They may be inclined to send someone to the yard for a nosey around and, if they are going to get defensive, the sooner the better.

Second thing to do is to get your insurance company / legal cover working on chasing them. If it's as clear cut as you say, they will get very keen on extracting a settlement from them rather than paying out, and they have more legal clout than you alone.

Kevin

I fear that contacting the Police, in particular, and his Insurance company is now to late, the Police certainly will not be interested now, given the time scales. I do not want to give bad news but I would guess this will end up as a 50/50, I do hope I am proved wrong

You're probably right. In hindsight, pursuing the truck was probably the wrong course of action. Getting his number plate and reporting it to the Police, and remaining at the scene and finding a witness would have been better. Still, the red mist descends on such occasions and we don't necessarily do the right thing.
Kevin

Absolutely........

[Vamps]

Will ring the Police when I get up in the morning  Did mean to do it earlier, but I totally forgot to be honest. May have to ring my insurance company too then.

Sorry to say but I feel that your delay on both counts may be costly....

[Welung666]

Here you go Mr. S

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... and the link:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZbQ_KOGBcQ

[Mr Skrunts]

Here you go Mr. S



... and the link:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZbQ_KOGBcQ

You star. 

[Mr Skrunts]

Right pain in the arse all of this.

If *touch wood* all goes well how do you think they'll pay me? Now insurance excesses on lorries are huge, so do you think they'll pay via cheque or what? It'll be expensive, I mean a drivers side door from BMW was pretty close to £1900, what's a front bumper, mirror, alloys and tyres going to cost?

A couple of things come to mind.

You could get the guy in cherge to get a copy of his drivers daily route and discretely get him to follow him in an unkown car for an hour, that way he gets an idea if the drivers habbits and the way he rides kerb corners.

You could also mention you are motor trade, he is obviously a business man and wangle into the chat it was 95% sold, if he is smart he may well buy the car and have it fixed himself.  But the deal would have to be at the advertised value with a sighned gaurantee against any of the damaged caused by his sweeper.

He may well value his no claims as the car could be a hell of a lot cheaper option.

If he is a lucky SOAB he might park it up wjile he thinks about and you never know, it might get hit by a truck. 

[Del Boy]

Killed wheels pictures:





























Scuffed mirror and bumper pictures will be up soon.

[Mr Skrunts]

Ouch!!!!!

[Del Boy]

Ouch!!!!!

I know 

[Del Boy]

Me and sons have terrble back pain now. What do we have to do regarding injuries?

[Mr Skrunts]

Me and sons have terrble back pain now. What do we have to do regarding injuries?

See a doctor 

[Del Boy]

Re stuff that happened Friday, spoke to his boss after he never returned the call, he called back after I'd rang him and said, driver has no recognition of hitting me, but he gave me all his insurance details and said go through the insurance. Where do I go from here, get an quote for the work and then get it done?