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Tree falls on van

  • 18-11-2015 4:32pm
    #1
    Mightydrumming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭


    Mods, if I'm not in the correct area - feel free to move it!

    Living in a private estate, builder was a cowboy - declared bankrupt a few years ago. He was doing time in prison not so long ago due to leaving some parts of the estate in a heap. As far as the estate committee say - he has signed off on the estate so we are being told he has nothing to do us anymore.

    We are the back row of houses looking out on a field with large trees etc... Yesterday around 2PM a large tree came down on top of our van and it is wrote off according to 2 panel beaters. (See attached images).

    The area has been in the process of being signed over to the council for the past year and we were told that there was a preservation order on the trees as we all wanted them to be chopped because a resident in the estate was having difficulties getting insurance on her home due to them being so big.

    So according to the estate committee - The builder has nothing to do with it anymore so he can't be held responsible and a member of the council was out today and said that they are not responsible because it is in the process of being signed over to them.

    Can we do anything here? Hope I have it made clear to you all - It's a shambles of a situation!!

    Any suggestions/recommendations are thoroughly welcome...

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Comments

  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    You're sort of in the same situation as another poster (look down the list of threads for 'Tree fell on my car'. The bottom line in your case is that if you have fully comp., your insurance will probably cover you, if not it's looks like you're screwed as you have nobody to sue for negligence if the tree was rotten or dangerously overgrown for a residential area.


  • #3
    Mightydrumming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mightydrumming


    coylemj wrote: »
    You're sort of in the same situation as another poster (look down the list of threads for 'Tree fell on my car'. The bottom line in your case is that if you have fully comp., your insurance will probably cover you, if not it's looks like you're screwed as you have nobody to sue for negligence if the tree was rotten or dangerously overgrown for a residential area.

    Thanks for the reply! That's another problem - the insurance company would not give us fully comp as it is a 2001 model :mad: They were only offering third party.

    Thanks again, I will give an update if anything changes.


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