...to just want to slap this guy round the face really fucking hard

[Sofuckthefuckoff]

Last year we were hit by a van driver in our car

DH me and our 2 children (2 and 6months at the time) were in the car the van drive reversed out of his work yard withiut looking (he admitted this) and caught our back end

he was all shocked and sorry asking if kids were ok repeatedly we were all fine lucky enough

He asked us ti let him pay for damage (just body work( abduction we agreed 2 weeks on after hearing nothibg but empty promices to get work done via text and voicemail we reported to.our insurance company

suddenly he changed his fucking tune.saying.it first was not him driving and now.saying we hit him
!!

For 6monyhs our insurance has veena asking fir details from hint.and his.insurance company admit he will not answer there calls.or.letters

so now.we are stuck

its our renewl time and.yiu guessed it iur insurance has more than doubled and we have lost our no claims too

so he.has.won oyr insurance say this.coukd.go on for years!!! Nothing we can do as no legal cover he geys away with it all

we are left with a damaged car paying double and no nore.no claims

u hate the asshole.so.much AIBU to wabt to.bounce gist head.of a car bonnet and to want ti comfrount him and demand to.know.how.he can show so much worry for kuch kids then screw us over

i hope him.mogher is proud infact i wish i could contact her and his family to see how.proud he must make them

I have learnt now
NEVER velieve anyone
ALWAYS call the police

HE MAKES.ME.SICK

that is all sorry my rant is so long

i'm so sorry ranting via phone has resuled in random predictive text and spelling issues

and random full.stops!!??!!

Really sorry to hear of your trouble.

I know it wasn't your fault but be relieved that your family were not hurt.

I try this method when I'm frustrated... imagine it had been more serious and someone had been hurt by this tosser accident, well how much would you pay in order for it just to be bodywork on the car and your no claims bonus?

Did you have any of his personal details? You know where he works and could get the insurance company to direct their letters there.

We got hit by another car - he pushed us sideways into a road we didn't want to go down - then we both had to get out of the way to a side road - we managed to limp our car there and he followed - waited for us to park and then sped off. We reported it to the police, and our insurers. He then said that we'd driven off without stopping. He contested the claim and our insurers were going to go halves on the damage, but I said not to - particularly as I had whip lash - and they were claiming it.

6 months down the line - with me pointed out to their insurance company that whilst they'd driven their front corner into our wheel arch and had dented that and completely ruined our wing and made it undriveable, they were claiming for damage to the back bumper. I sent google images showing the junction and the road markings, and photographs. Finally their insurance company gave in and paid in full.

So - its worth not giving in and carrying on even if you feel you're going in circles. It can be done.

I feel for you. Someone came through a red light into my car a few years ago and wrote it off. She was completely in the wrong, told me there wasn't a light for her turn. I showed her the bloody light and then she said it must have been green. It took a long time for me to stop being angry. The only thing that made me feel for her family was that her two teenagers were with her and heard her lying. Poor buggers.

It is awful and unfair. It happens quite frequently.

We were exiting our car in a virtually empty car park one morning, both front door ajar. Mr Random Dickhead drives his car in to park next to us, and drives straight into the open door!!!!

He insisted we opened the door into his car as he was trying to park. It took us nearly 12 months to prove that the damage to our door hinges could only have happened like it did, if the door was already open. We got there in the end but it was a stressful and worrying time.

Have a or a

Oh dear - even if he offered to pay you should still have reported to your insurance company and declared the accident at renewal time anyway, so YAB a bit U.

Lesson learned and be happy no-one was hurt.

Llanbobi - sorry should have put in the OP that my DH did inform the insuramce company on the day of the accident but stated we were dealing with it without making a "claim"

Still.love the idea of bouncing his head of the car bonnet :) very calming

Ah, fair do's - it's seriously annoying - something similar happened to me so you do have my sympathy. Karma will get them - just remember that

Oh dear at least you are ok, mind you it could have gone the otherway. I had a very minor ding into a neighbours car just after I learnt to drive (culmination of a really really bad day ). I was mortified, admitted responsibility, I offered to arrange & pay to get it fixed and arrange to a hire car etc whilst it work was being done (tiny ding in wheelarch, so it wouldn't have taken long)
But neighbours (we don't know well) insisted that we go through insurance companies - fine we agreed, filled out all the paperwork. Thought it was weird when nothing happened but figured out they'd taken the money and just not fixed it. 9months later we heard from another neighbour that we were being bad mouthed left right and centre by the original set of neighbours for not sorting out the claim. 1st we'd heard about it (silly beggars hadn't thought to actually ask us) so I went to see them and after a bit of digging on our part it turned out their insurance company hadn't actually progressed the paperwork so hadn't claimed anything in the first place.!!!
We aren't exactly friends these days but at least we are back on speaking terms now they realise it wasn't our fault.

Don't for in,dh was hit by a motorbike coming the other way,his number plate flew off and smashed into the lights and grill of dh s car.
Bloke carried on driving and dh stopped and picked up his plate,went to the police who told us to go through our insurance.
We did and at first he admitted it,then changed his mind and ignored all letters for a year.
Insurance went up in the mean time but eventually his insurance paid up and we got our extra money we had paid out back.
It takes time but you will get your money.

A few years ago my car was hit by a lorry. Completely the lorry's fault. He changed lanes without looking and hit us from the side.

The driver refused to give us his name, address and insurance details. I threatened to call the police and he then gave me the name of his insurance company and drove off.

I had taken down his registration and gave it to my insurance company with his insurance company name.

The claim took ages, the driver refused to answer any letters from his insurance company. After a year they settled in our favour and also paid a token amount of compensation of £100.