Daughter working at a festival. Car has been moved and damaged.

[Sparklynewname]

My daughter has been away working at a festival since Thursday morning (doing 14 hour days yuk!)
When she arrived at the festival, she was instructed exactly where to park (the exact spot) and was given a pass which she had to write her phone number on and leave on her dashboard.
She returned to the car this evening to leave and couldn’t find it anywhere. It transpires that it had been moved into a compound.
On her way home she was repeatedly being flashed by other motorway drivers. She got off the motorway at the services and realised that she has no rear lights working. She also feels like the steering is not right or that the rear wheels just aren’t right.
I have had a quick look at the website and it says “1.15 We shall have no liability for any loss, injury, illness or damage to any person or property sustained at the Event howsoever caused (including by Us and Our agents) in any circumstances unless caused by our own negligence and that which cannot by law be excluded or limited. Any personal property brought to the Event is at your own risk.”

I will take her car to a garage tomorrow and see if anything can be done to repair it although I very much doubt it can as it’s elderly. Is there actually any recourse she can take? It seems a bit bloody harsh that she has worked her bum off for 4 days to get some money for next year and is now potentially facing a huge bill for car repairs OR car replacement.
Thanks all for reading, I’m glad I had stayed up until she got in now!

I’ve responded.
Kt’s DS was working at the same festival as my DD so I think they have buggered up their staff parking and are just dragging cars around Willy nilly.

Wow. Now that will be of interest to some lawyers.

But now the car works fine?

All lights are working and I have sorted out her tyres so car seems to be ok. But they have scratched it.
We are very thankful that the car seems ok!
I did say to DH that I wondered if she was thinking people were flashing her due to the poor weather, poor lighting and rain. I often think I am being flashed when I drive that stretch of motorway at night. I did read somewhere that it’s to do with the newer super bright lights that cars seem to have nowadays.
DD is also a glasses wearer and I think that makes it harder in dark wet conditions.
But I think she had a meltdown because she panicked that her car had been stolen and everything else from the past few days all jumped on her at once.
I’m so glad I’m not her age any more!

Our second car is a 56 plate clio and the headlights are extremely weak compared to our main car. I would get the bulbs checked though, just to make sure!

Just a small thing to add. If this is the old shape campus that was on a 56 plate, and it has a sun roof, they had a bit of an issue where the water got in through it, tracked down the A Pillar and straight into the electrical brain of the car located down there.
Early symptoms are sporadic electrical issues including lights which work as and when they feel like it. The death knell is complete failure of all lights and indicators and the ECU needing to be replaced at a few hundred pounds.

Hopefully she was just mistaken and there are no problems. Fingers crossed for her. If the festival was at Catton the lady who organises it is very active on TikTok. DM me if so and I’ll send you her details.