road traffic accident

[3littlefrogs]

I would be very grateful if anyone who knows about these things could give me an opinion.

Is it usual practice for an insurance company representative to visit a key witness nearly three months after an accident and try to persuade them to change their statement - even to the extent of rewriting the statement and including incorrect information in order to implicate the other party?

The witness did refuse to sign the first rewritten statement, but was persuaded to sign a third version, but now feels that it wasn't quite accurate, and he intends to write to the insurers to this effect.

This has happened to me, and although the witness is writing to the insurers, I am not sure how much weight that will carry, given that they have already persuaded him to sign it.

Should have said thanks in advance. (am writing this in the early hours).

This doesn't sound right to me (but I haven't worked in insurance in the UK only in France). Sometimes we come back to people to ask them to add detail to their statements that they didn't think to put it but that could be helpful to processing the claim or determining liability eg Please add time of day or specify which direction car A and car B were driving in etc but we aren't allowed to tell anyone WHAT to write.

Thanks OSotC - they actually wrote it for him and got him to sign it. I have seen it and it is very cleverly worded, and different from his original statement.