Accident & Car insurance claim

Naz_st

Hey there,

My wife was in a car accident a few days ago where somebody came into the side of her car on a roundabout (both were already on the roundabout, neither entering or leaving, one in each lane of a two lane roundabout). It was completely not her fault and at the time the other party apologized, though they said they had to swerve to avoid another car, hence the accident. Anyway, Gardai arrived and took statements and all that, but when my wife rang up the other party's insurance company they said they were not admitting liability and "roundabouts are tricky", and some kind of "investigation" would be set in motion. Anyway, does anyone have any experience with anything like this? What's the likely outcome, and anything we can do at this point to try and get this resolved quickly? Our worry now is that the insurance companies are going to "settle" on a 50/50 claim despite the fact that it had nothing to do with us?

Thanks!

OldmanMondeo

They are right in not admitting liability, leave them open to all sorts of claims. Pain in the ass for you, but that's just how it works. You will just have to gather all information, statements etc, claim against their insurance. If your fully comp, your insurance will let you claim on it and they claim against the other party.