Friends car crash dispute

[MusicTeacherSussex]

Names obviously fake.

Alice was driving her car with Jenny as a passenger, and they had a crash, the fault of another driver.

Alice's shoulder, already damaged, got worse so she applied for the forms to fill out for compensation. She encouraged Jenny to do the same.

Jenny filled hers out and received 600. Alice decided not to bother, even though she would have been entitled to much much more.

Alice is now demanding that Jenny gives her half of the sum. Jenny has said no, and that she didn't agree to split the money. Alice is also demanding that Jenny puts the sum towards a holiday for them both. Jenny is offering to help Alice complete her claim form. I am offering to help Alice complete her claim form.

I think Alice is being rude and cannot believe she asked. Jenny is now considering giving her half to preserve their friendship. I think it sounds like bullying to me, and I think Alice should leave her alone and fill out her own claim.

Who is being unreasonable here.

[DeeThree]

@MusicTeacherSussex

Alice must have put a claim in she has just announced to me her payout of 2500 quid, which she hasn't mentioned to Jenny. Of course. Nor is she intending to share it with her

You can absolutely be sure Alice won't be offering half to Jenny now!!! Are they still friends?

[Kitkat151]

@Sunnydayshereatlast

Who the fuck is Alice??

Those were the days 😜

[TinyCake]

@MusicTeacherSussex

Alice must have put a claim in she has just announced to me her payout of 2500 quid, which she hasn't mentioned to Jenny. Of course. Nor is she intending to share it with her

Ha! Sneaky!

[TinyCake]

@MusicTeacherSussex

Also I am loving the chorus of who the fuck is Alice! Might have to stick it on and have a laugh

We reckon that she shouldn't have actually been driving and that's why she is not claiming.

That was my first thought when I read it. Otherwise I think she would have claimed if there was no fault on her part.

[MusicTeacherSussex]

Alice must have put a claim in she has just announced to me her payout of 2500 quid, which she hasn't mentioned to Jenny. Of course. Nor is she intending to share it with her

[sohypnotic]

I agree that Alice probably isn't entitled to compensation, or at least knows it wouldn't be much and hard to prove with a pre-existing injury. I put a personal injury claim in for neck/shoulder injury (not from a car accident) when I was 30, and at my medical examination (a couple of years later) they bought up the fact I once saw the doctor with neck pain when I was 12 could show a pre-existing problem and reduce my compensation.

[tatasa]

Why would Jenny want to preserve a friendship with Alice who would treat her like this.
Also, why would someone forgo a compensation due to them, because they couldn't be bothered to fill out a form? Yup, there is another reason Alice can't claim, therefore is sniffing around Jenny's.

[SciFiScream]

I had a double decker bus drive into the back of me when I was sitting at red lights, handbrake on. Children in car seats in the back of the car.

I ended up getting physio and a payment because of the damage done. I've also just realised that this is why still have problems around my neck and shoulders. I'd forgotten.

Alice should claim as she might get treatment. This was of more value to me than the payout.

[Frazzled2207]

Ah fair enough I did RTFT but missed that Jenny was actually injured. She’s not unreasonable then but Alice still is (very). Sounds very dodgy that perhaps she doesn’t want to claim because she shouldn’t have been driving. Makes her even more U.

[BrightYellowDaffodil]

Alice is going to get in trouble I reckon as she probably shouldn't have been driving on a shoulder injury.

It would depend how bad the shoulder injury was at the time of the accident? Mine was injured in the first accident and then a shunt a few years ago triggered it back off again - both were treated with physio and the first one assessed by a doctor, but neither were sufficiently bad to mean I shouldn't have been driving.

If, however, she had an existing injury that meant she should at least have notified it to the DVLA and/or it could have contributed to the accident if, say, she couldn't turn sufficiently to look over her shoulder or couldn't steer quickly enough to avoid an accident then I can see why she'd try to hide that.

[MusicTeacherSussex]

Yes they were both Injured. Jenny was assessed by the paramedic. She could have gone further with it but took a settlement payout and left it at that. Alice is going to get in trouble I reckon as she probably shouldn't have been driving on a shoulder injury.

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

Unless 'Alice's' real name is actually Tom, she lives on Craggy Island and takes a gun into the post office to withdraw her own money, because she (or he) she doesn't 'do' forms



Alice is clearly unreasonable. But so is Jenny if she made an insurance claim when she wasn’t actually injured

I thought Jenny genuinely had a whiplash injury. Did she not?

[Frazzled2207]

Alice is clearly unreasonable. But so is Jenny if she made an insurance claim when she wasn’t actually injured.
Why do people think insurance premiums keep rising??! Do people really claim like this just because they can?

[MrsJBaptiste]

No question that Alice is being totally unreasonable but we all know that.

She should also feel worse that she clearly does as she was the one driving! You say it wasn't her fault and it may not have been but very few accidents are completely one-sided.

Anyway, even if the crash wasn't Alice's fault, the fact that she's being such a dick makes me think she may well have had something to do with it and is probably a shit driver

[SlothMama]

Alice, but so is Jenny for claiming if she wasn't injured.

[RedOasis]

Don’t give her a penny! What cheeky ducking sow!

[LonginesPrime]

Alice has no right to someone else's money, whether it's personal injury compensation or anything else - WTF?

And I agree - either Alice has been told she was partly (or fully) to blame for the accident (Jenny as the passenger obviously wasn't to blame regardless of which driver was at fault) or she has been told her claim isn't worthwhile (pre-existing injury, insufficient evidence, etc).

Regardless of Alice's legal position, she's a controlling dickhead.

[MulticolourMophead]

[quote billy1966]@Sunnydayshereatlast
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OP, something fishy going on.
Alice has the energy to nag Jenny but not instigate a claim herself. Don't believe it.
Ye don't have the full story.

Tell Jenny to cut Alice loose.[/quote]
This.

I can't believe Alice simply hasn't bothered if she's that greedy for money.

Jenny needs to cut Alice loose, she should not give her any money.

[Tootletum]

Alice should go back down the rabbit hole.

[WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]

We reckon that she shouldn't have actually been driving and that's why she is not claiming.

That's sounding increasingly more likely. If Jenny has got a copy of (or notes from) her own claim, it would be so simple for Alice to complete her own form, with mostly the exact same details.

Was she driving on a provisional licence, whilst banned, without insurance or with an undisclosed health condition (or a disclosed one which had caused the DVLA to revoke her licence)? Do you even know for a fact that Alice hasn't already submitted a claim and been turned down on the basis of one or more of the above possible scenarios?

Unless 'Alice's' real name is actually Tom, she lives on Craggy Island and takes a gun into the post office to withdraw her own money, because she (or he) she doesn't 'do' forms

[Bemorechicken]

Alice needs to claim for herself and Jenny needs to claim for herself. Done. No sharing of compensation

[SkinnyChicky]

Why do you even need to ask the question?

[WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]

Does your serious accident in any way disprove the fact that thousands of people make fraudulent claims for nonexistent injuries every year and that your friends are doing likewise?

Somebody else's serious accident neither proves nor disproves any other cases, be they genuine or fraudulent, in any way. In exactly the same way as somebody in hospital receiving a quadruple heart bypass or kidney dialysis doesn't have any bearing on somebody elsewhere in the building receiving care relating to osteoarthritis or asthma. Each receives according to their needs - there isn't a set fee labelled 'person in a car accident' which is paid to all, regardless of whether they have to have a week off work or permanently lose the use of all their limbs.

Here's another judgement for you. I think you're probably "Jenny". Otherwise, why do you care so much?

So you're outright calling OP a liar, then? Is it really so alien to you that somebody would care about a friend being put in difficult circumstances when she's done nothing wrong whatsoever?

[MusicTeacherSussex]

Also I am loving the chorus of who the fuck is Alice! Might have to stick it on and have a laugh

We reckon that she shouldn't have actually been driving and that's why she is not claiming.

[Evelefteden]

Alice? Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?

Sorry