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.

[eaglejulesk]

Alice is BU. If she wants the money she fills in a claim, if she doesn't then tough luck.

If I was Jenny I'm not sure that I would want Alice as a friend.

[blubberyboo]

I think it’s clear Alice is in the wrong and I think you should say that to Alice to support of Jenny. So that she knows how unreasonable she is being. Explain that by not putting in her own claim it is only making things easier for the other driver who was at fault , this disadvantaging Jenny and Alice

You have offered to fill in the forms and I think you should both leave it there and not offer again. She can get citizens advice to help her as you don’t really know what her true injuries are so you wouldn’t want implicated if she wasn’t being truthful.

[Ellie56]

I'm struggling to understand why Alice encouraged Jenny to apply for compensation but didn't do so herself.

Unless it was her plan all along to claim half of Jenny's money, as she couldn't be arsed to claim herself.

Alice is a twat and being very very unreasonable. She's not a friend - tell Jenny not to share the money and to dump her.

[ThreeFish]

Jenny needs to forget all about Alice

[Nottherealslimshady]

Alice is lazy and greedy. But I'm querying whether Jenny was actually injured in th crash because there's no mention of it so will say that if Jenny claimed to have whiplash to grab some cash then she's just as bad.

[BrightYellowDaffodil]

Surely when you inform the insurance company of the accident you have to say who was injured and they help you fill in form.

In my case everything went through my broker and they arranged everything. I was significantly injured and needed physio for quite a long time afterwards but the brokers dealt with everything. All I had to do was check and sign the forms they sent, and turn up to the relevant appointments. I think I had one or two phone calls with the solicitors the brokers arranged and I received a cheque.

[WhatATimeToBeAlive]

Jenny is now considering giving her half to preserve their friendship.

That friendship isn't worth £300. Alice is no friend at all.

[kirinm]

Clearly Alice but if this was a recent car accident, she has 3 years in which to claim. It shouldn't be too hard. If her injury was fairly significant, approach a solicitor.

[NewNewt]

Please read the thread proper. The person who said 6 years immediately corrected it as a typo and corrected it to 3 years.

[AriadnesFilament]

Alice needs to be told in no uncertain terms to get lost.

[fatgirlslimmer]

Perhaps Alice has not declared her previous damaged shoulder to her insurance or some other ailment or disability and she doesn't want them to see her medical records? It sounds like she has something to hide.

[ptumbi]

Of course Alice is being MassivelyU!

So Jenny does all the work involved in getting a claim for HER injury, and Alice wants to sit back, do nothing for her own claim and yet take half of Jenny's?

WHo on earth would ever think this is reasonable?

[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.

[TooTrueToBeGood]

They are both assholes. Classic case of people who treat a minor car accident as a potential scratch card win and claim for (invented) injuries which just pump up the premiums for all other drivers. £600 sounds exactly like the sort of sum given out to get spurious/fraudulent whiplash claimants to piss off quietly. As to Alice, maybe she should have given some thought to the risks of driving with a preexisting shoulder injury which almost certainly would not take well to being slammed into a seatbelt.

[Zaphodsotherhead]

I also think something is going on with Alice. Does she think that, if she claims, it will impact on her future ability to insure her car? Or does she already have form for making 'fake claims' and therefore thinks this might come up if she tries to make a real one?

'Not being bothered' to fill in forms sometimes besets me if I get overwhelmed, but if significant money is involved I will force myself to do it in the end. Maybe Alice is like this and she'll end up putting in a claim with three days to go before the three year cut off?

Whichever may be the case, she has absolutely no right whatsoever to ask Jenny for half of hers.

I'm betting on it being something illegal that Alice has done in the past that will come up if she tries to claim and she can't cope with people asking her about how it's going with her money claim when she already knows she won't get it...

[MusicTeacherSussex]

@tootruetobegood I think that's pretty judgemental. They were both injured. I myself have had a near fatal car crash and the impact of it is horrible.

[Procrastination4]

I was going to write that the fact that Alice has a pre-existing shoulder injury will prove her claim much more difficult than Jenny’s, but Greencoxing has already pointed this out. Alice is ridiculous to be trying to get Jenny to give her money, though.

[MusicTeacherSussex]

I think there is probably something Alice is trying to hide, you are right

[Bringmewineandcake]

@MummaGiles

Alice has got about 6 years from the accident date to put in her own claim for injury.

No she doesn’t. It’s not 6 years for personal injury claims, it’s 3. Please don’t give out false information.

I corrected it 2 posts after...

[TooTrueToBeGood]

So it's judgemental, tough shit. It's judgement based on knowing what goes on in the real world and also the fact that at no point in your post did you make any reference to Jenny actually being injured. If she was genuinely injured she would not have settled for £600.

You having been in a near fatal accident at some point is completely irrelevant so why would you even mention it? 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?

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

[WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]

Alice is clearly more interested in money than staying friends with Jenny

But it's not either/or - she can very easily have both. Whichever insurance company is underwriting it isn't going to not have enough left to pay the second claim as well. Several hundreds or thousands to them are like pennies to the rest of us.

Jenny has the money that she has been awarded and Alice's money is there and waiting for her as soon as she applies for it. If anything, Jenny has already done her a favour by providing a clear reference point with her successful claim should the insurers try to dispute the seriousness of the accident overall.

Alice is bonkers. Even if she struggles with literacy (I would say or poor eyesight, but for the fact that she was driving), two people have offered to help her. Would she also forego any benefits to which she's entitled, just because she cba to fill in the forms? And then expect somebody else in receipt of the same benefit to just go halves on theirs or otherwise call them selfish?

[MusicTeacherSussex]

@Tootruetobegood you're hilariously angry. Go calm down now or you'll injure yourself. Is this your first time here?

Thanks to everyone else though for actually just taking the post at face value as its meant to be.

[HaveAtEm]

Bloody hell @TooTrueToBeGood 😱 What an unpleasant character you are.

OP I wouldn't engage any further with twats like this...they clearly have an agenda and it's nothing to do with your post.

[Evelefteden]

Alice? Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?

Sorry

[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.