Worth the hassle??

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

Just realised today that my car was damaged yesterday evening, its pretty much all superficial stuff from some wagon trying to park a small van and failing completely, and in the process hitting my car 3 times.

I heard a van start up yesterday evening and thought it made an odd sound so I looked out the window, my bike only had a disk lock on it so I took down the reg of the van on the off chance something happened. Fast forward to today and a friend of mine asked me what happened to my car :eek:
So i took a look, now I have a webcam keeping an eye on the parking spots so I check back over the recordings and discovered this.

Now I looked up the reg and its for a silver car, same year and make as the van but obviously not the right one.

As it is just a bit of scratching and paint removed from the plastic of the bumper is there any real point in me contacting the Garda? Would they just look at it as a minor matter and more or less forget about it?

oh and here is the damage, most of the white/blue just wiped off.

corktina

Give the video to the Gards...something dodgy there and you never know it may help someone else.

Toyotafanboi

jesus that's unreal **** driving, it's like a comedy show, they must have been drunk. i'd contact the guards anyway encase that van done any other stupid **** in the area yesterday.

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

Yeah, I kinda had the Benny Hill music going through my head while I was watching it lol

Gumbo

Fair play to you for being so calm.
Tell the guards you heard the noise, looked out and took the reg but by the time you went down they were gone.

The guards will chase them up and retrieve their details with a warning to sort it out or face a charge of hit and run, and leaving the scene of an accident.

Happened my mate last year too, lucky he had footage of it too.

franksm

Jesus, I'd be livid if I saw that happening, whether to my car or someone else's.

Definitely driving like they are drunk.

The Gardaí may not do anything for you, they'll tell you to claim off your insurance, but I guess the correct thing to do is to report it and print off a still shot for them.

corktina

kceire wrote: »

Fair play to you for being so calm.
Tell the guards you heard the noise, looked out and took the reg but by the time you went down they were gone.

The guards will chase them up and retrieve their details with a warning to sort it out or face a charge of hit and run, and leaving the scene of an accident.

Happened my mate last year too, lucky he had footage of it too.

it's on false plates.

Mycroft H

corktina wrote: »

it's on false plates.

Or could just be a mistake on the motor tax database....

My starlet was most certainly a Kermit the frog green but down as blue on the log book. Not the only one I've seen

No Pants

Do you know who owns the green van? If they hit it too, give a copy to him and all.

Definitely one for the Gardai. They really should care about this.

Chris_Heilong

Scary that there was loads of room yet they still managed to hit your car.

robtri

thats horrendous!!! as above straight to gaurds

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Unbelievable. The aphids on my potatoes undoubtedly have a higher intelligence quotient than the organism "in control" of that van.

In fact I'm getting quite worked up on the sofa. I need another glass of red.

wonski

Something dodgy there - looks like it was a semi auto van with the passenger changing the gears. Drunk, on drugs or complete idiots.

I would speak to the guards, fake plates or not.

You are a very calm man, op. I wouldn't call it a bit of scratching, this was disgraceful imo.

They drove off I guess?

daveohdave

Learner I'd say. Some manufacturers are odd when it comes to colours, for example blue Viano Trends are always down as grey on the log book, despite being very clearly blue. I'd be into the Guards like a shot with that.

No Pants

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

In fact I'm getting quite worked up on the sofa.

That's why you have a Profanisaurus, Roger.

tf2

Straight to the gards with that. Them two 'boyos' deserve it.

knucklehead6

You're a better man than me OP... I'd be livid! And straight down to the local station too.

Yeah, they mightn't be able to do anything, but equally they might be able to do something.

Either way if you go to claim off your insurance they'll probably require you to report it..

Thomas D

Go to the gardai and also make initiate a claim through your insurer

randy hickey

I'd definitely report it.
I'm bad minded/paranoid at the best of times, but if I was you I'd be wondering if their intention was to nick the bike, and having twatted the car, they abandoned the job for fear of having attracted attention to themselves.

daveohdave

If they do that they'll have an open claim for a year or more unless they have a protected Ncb, which will put their premium through the roof. There's been several threads about it here recently. I'd be doing careful maths before making a claim of any kind these days.

discombobulate

daveohdave wrote: »

If they do that they'll have an open claim for a year or more unless they have a protected Ncb, which will put their premium through the roof. There's been several threads about it here recently. I'd be doing careful maths before making a claim of any kind these days.

He'd be claiming off someone elses policy though not his own.

Those vans drive like forklifts. They're easier to manouver than the likes of a corsa. How he managed to do that is beyond me

djimi

discombobulate wrote: »

He'd be claiming off someone elses policy though not his own.

He will be claiming off his own policy until his insurer can recover the money from the other parties insurer. Given that it seems the van is on false plates, this could end up messy and drawn out.

Thomas D

djimi wrote: »

He will be claiming off his own policy until his insurer can recover the money from the other parties insurer. Given that it seems the van is on false plates, this could end up messy and drawn out.

That's not how it works.

djimi

Thomas D wrote: »

That's not how it works.

Who do you propose the OP claim off then? They have no useable details from the other party and have no way of tracking down their insurer.

discombobulate

djimi wrote: »

He will be claiming off his own policy until his insurer can recover the money from the other parties insurer. Given that it seems the van is on false plates, this could end up messy and drawn out.

Not how it's worked in my experience.

Thomas D

djimi wrote: »

Who do you propose the OP claim off then? They have no useable details from the other party and have no way of tracking down their insurer.

His insurer is best placed to find the vans insurer. They will know if that registration number is insured. They will contact the insurer and discuss the claim between themselves. If it turns out that the van is on false plates then they will be able to confirm that.

discombobulate

djimi wrote: »

Who do you propose the OP claim off then? They have no useable details from the other party and have no way of tracking down their insurer.

Their obviously not going to claim unless they get the details of the other party hence why they go to the cops and ask them to follow up and try track down the van owner.

djimi

Thomas D wrote: »

His insurer is best placed to find the vans insurer. They will know if that registration number is insured. They will contact the insurer and discuss the claim between themselves. If it turns out that the van is on false plates then they will be able to confirm that.

We already know the van is on false plates; a Cartell report has shown that. There is no other insurer.

And even if there was, its still an open claim with your insurer until they sort it.

randy hickey

I would have thought the Motor Insurers Bureau Of Ireland was set up for exactly this sort of thing.

CatFromHue

So it looks like they hit your car and then reversed into the other spot so as to make it look less like they did it.

Bio Mech

randy hickey wrote: »

I would have thought the Motor Insurers Bureau Of Ireland was set up for exactly this sort of thing.

Doesn't the driver at fault have to be identified to go the MIBI route?

discombobulate

Bio Mech wrote: »

Doesn't the driver at fault have to be identified to go the MIBI route?

Yup

randy hickey

Bio Mech wrote: »

Doesn't the driver at fault have to be identified to go the MIBI route?

No, they do not.

From the MIBI website:
"MIBI compensates victims who have been involved in an accident caused by uninsured or unidentified vehicles."

Also, from first hand experience.

BMJD

randy hickey wrote: »

No, they do not.

From the MIBI website:
"MIBI compensates victims who have been involved in an accident caused by uninsured or unidentified vehicles."

Also, from first hand experience.

My first hand experience is that if the offender isn't identified, you claim from your own insurance, losing your NCB in the process. That was in 2008, maybe it has changed in the meantime.

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

kceire wrote: »

Fair play to you for being so calm.

Cheers, not a lot else I can do to be honest

No Pants wrote: »

Do you know who owns the green van? If they hit it too, give a copy to him and all.

Definitely one for the Gardai. They really should care about this.

I reported it to them, say I'll be waiting to hear back tho...

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

randy hickey wrote: »

I'd definitely report it.
I'm bad minded/paranoid at the best of times, but if I was you I'd be wondering if their intention was to nick the bike, and having twatted the car, they abandoned the job for fear of having attracted attention to themselves.

Yeah That's what I was initially worried about.

Dia1988

Hi OP,

Can I ask where in Dublin this happened?

a Nissan Vannette identical to the one in your video was stolen in Clontarf on 21st May at 5pm, with the reg 01 c 9928

More info is available on the following facebook Stolen Recovered page, just scroll down until you see a pic of the van, the owner of the stolen van was on Joe Duffy, you will see his Facebook page there aswell, Norman Ludgate

https://www.facebook.com/StolenAndRecoverdIreland?ref=ts&fref=ts

There aren't many of these vans around and to say this one appears to be on false plates and an identical van was stolen days before this, might be some correlation!

Let me know

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

Dia1988 wrote: »

Hi OP,

Can I ask where in Dublin this happened?

a Nissan Vannette identical to the one in your video was stolen in Clontarf on 21st May at 5pm, with the reg 01 c 9928

More info is available on the following facebook Stolen Recovered page, just scroll down until you see a pic of the van, the owner of the stolen van was on Joe Duffy, you will see his Facebook page there aswell, Norman Ludgate

https://www.facebook.com/StolenAndRecoverdIreland?ref=ts&fref=ts

There aren't many of these vans around and to say this one appears to be on false plates and an identical van was stolen days before this, might be some correlation!

Let me know

Hi yeah its the same type and colour of van alright, it happened on Cork Street, near the Coombe Hospital.

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

FuzzyWuzzyWazza wrote: »

Now I looked up the reg and its for a silver car, same year and make as the van but obviously not the right one.

Sorry I confused the issue a little here, the van was a Nissan and the reg belongs to a Toyota car.