Access to motor insurance information

gar44

Hi Guys,

Hopefully I am posting this in the right place. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how Dublin bus could have gotten my wife's info and insurance details from just her registration, without any contact with her or her consent. It feel like it must be a breach of GDPR that they could have done this.

Just for some context, her insurance company contacted her informing her that a passenger was injured on a Dublin due to the driver breaking hard. Dublin bus have named her as liable and claimed that the bus broke so hard because she pulled out in front of them. There was no accident, no collision, no communication between her and the bus driver, no Garda called etc.

I'm just really annoyed about the whole thing and feel like they should not have gotten her information without some form of contact or consent. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

Eggs For Dinner

Insurers can apply to the MIBI for details of insurer on any given vehicle involved in an accident. I presume (not certain) that Dublin Bus have the same access, given that they have a self insurance exemption.

It works like this Dublin Bus contacts the MIBI for details relating to reg 191D12345. The MIBI check their data base and find out that the insurer is Aviva (for example). The MIBI contact Aviva to advise that their client was involved in an incident involving Dublin Bus and could they investigate. Aviva then contact their client to advise a claim has been lodged and they begin investigation

Mrs OBumble

gar44 wrote: »

There was no accident, no collision, no communication between her and the bus driver, no Garda called etc.

FWIW, Dublin Bus do have CCTV. This would much reduce the chance of their making a false claim.

Peregrinus

gar44 wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Hopefully I am posting this in the right place. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how Dublin bus could have gotten my wife's info and insurance details from just her registration, without any contact with her or her consent. It feel like it must be a breach of GDPR that they could have done this.

Just for some context, her insurance company contacted her informing her that a passenger was injured on a Dublin due to the driver breaking hard. Dublin bus have named her as liable and claimed that the bus broke so hard because she pulled out in front of them. There was no accident, no collision, no communication between her and the bus driver, no Garda called etc.

I'm just really annoyed about the whole thing and feel like they should not have gotten her information without some form of contact or consent. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

It's not clear that they have got her information, or very much of it. All that Dublin Bus appears to know is that car reg no 19D12345 is insured by the ABC insurance company, and that's information that is publicly displayed on the insurance disc. (True, they didn't get the information by looking at the insurance disc. But the point is the information is already publicly available.)

L1011

Dublin Bus self insure up to some large amount (millions) and as such are the insurance firm

Victor

gar44 wrote: »

Just for some context, her insurance company contacted her informing her that a passenger was injured on a Dublin due to the driver breaking hard. Dublin bus have named her as liable and claimed that the bus broke so hard because she pulled out in front of them. There was no accident, no collision, no communication between her and the bus driver, no Garda called etc.

Based on this, do Dublin Bus actually have anything other than the registration number of the vehicle?

gar44 wrote: »

There was no accident

It seems there may have been.

gar44 wrote: »

no Garda called

How do you know?

Peregrinus

gar44 wrote: »

. . . her insurance company contacted her informing her that a passenger was injured on a Dublin due to the driver breaking hard . . . There was no accident . . .

You think Dublin Bus has lied to the insurance company about the braking and the injury?