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Any advice for dufus here? Bus reversed into me.

  • 29-04-2015 6:49pm
    #1
    eman66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭


    EDIT: The situation might get messy, perhaps legal, so I'm paring back this post...

    Bus reversed into front of my car. Driver admitted fault at first and offered to pay for repairs but then later retracted this and became very difficult, refused to provide insurancce details etc. I suspect this is going to get messy and that the driver will deny the accident took place or will try to blame me.

    Sorry for large edit.


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  • #2
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    Well considering you reported it to the Guards first I think it's obvious he is at fault and if he did end up saying you ran into the back of his bus then why didn't he report it?

    Secondly make sure you always exchange insurance details at the scene of an accident - no matter what. Chasing people for the details afterwards is always a pain.


  • #3
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    +1 for a dash cam.


  • #4
    Endthescam
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 156 ✭✭Endthescam


    What difference would the gardai make? You may as well have called the post man down to view the scene.


  • #5
    9935452
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭9935452


    Always call the guards . they will take details and they will make sure you will exchange insurance details


  • #6
    Endthescam
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    9935452 wrote: »
    Always call the guards . they will take details and they will make sure you will exchange insurance details

    Waste of their time and yours. Take their reg number first. Then look for insurance details on their windscreen. Then ask for personal details.
    Call your insurer and tell them the situation. Give them a full statement of event later on with diagrams if necessary. Both insurers will then assess the claim and apportion blame.

    A garda is not a witness and not an expert. They have no role in this unless it is a serious accidentor if there are safety concerns with inoperable vehicles.


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  • #7
    9935452
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭9935452


    Endthescam wrote: »
    Waste of their time and yours. Take their reg number first. Then look for insurance details on their windscreen. Then ask for personal details.
    Call your insurer and tell them the situation. Give them a full statement of event later on with diagrams if necessary. Both insurers will then assess the claim and apportion blame.

    A garda is not a witness and not an expert. They have no role in this unless it is a serious accidentor if there are safety concerns with inoperable vehicles.

    If the op had called the guards he would have all the other mans insurance details. there is a record of the accident.
    As it stands the bus driver is claiming there was never an accident


  • #8
    eman66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭eman66


    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    +1 for a dash cam.
    I know, been meaning to get one for ages. Sickened.


  • #9
    eman66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭eman66


    Endthescam wrote: »
    What difference would the gardai make? You may as well have called the post man down to view the scene.
    To compel him to provide his insurance details. And to be witness to his admisssion of fault.


  • #10
    Endthescam
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 156 ✭✭Endthescam


    eman66 wrote: »
    To compel him to provide his insurance details. And to be witness to his admisssion of fault.

    OP could have got his insurance details on the spot but he didn't. Even still it's not that big a deal as he has them now. Gardai are not there to get confessions from drivers in small collisions.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
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    Worth taking photos too with phone, vehicle positions, damage, debris on ground, insurance disks etc

    And yes, if a Garda had heard the admission you would be home and dry now.


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  • #12
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    eman66 wrote: »
    I know, been meaning to get one for ages. Sickened.

    Took me getting rammed by a box truck and then engaging in a little 'high speed' pursuit to get one so I feel your pain.


  • #13
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Was this a private bus or Dublin Bus/Bus Eireann? (the latter two all have multiple CCTV cameras now as far as I'm aware). Have you been in touch with the company themselves (unless it's a one-man outfit)


  • #14
    eman66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭eman66


    Small private company, a few busses. The driver was actually the company owner.

    Went knocking on doors last night for witnesses. Three people who I knew were in the near vicinity at the time of the accident. They didn't want to know. Would rather see him get away with it and an innocent party punished than be bothered getting inolved.


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