Car scraped while parked

Sat in my car in a car park once and watched a woman belt into a parked car. The bumper came off altogether.

She got out to check her car. Looked around and didnt see anyone and got in the car and drove off.

I left a note with my phone number and the reg on the damaged car. He called me and you can guess what the outcome was. I'll put you out of your suspense if you cant. He got nowhere with either shopping center or gardai.

Scraped a car vs running over a child - strong Karening there.

If someone wasn't Knocking on dead door 🚪 Prosecuted away

My experience of a similar situation I returned to my car in a carpark, a very upset woman approached to say she had scraped against my car leaving the space beside me. To be honest my car was so dirty I never noticed.

This was 3 days before Christmas. A few text messages and we agreed leave it till after Christmas. I provided them with a quote from a body shop. Her husband rang and asked if I would use their man for the repairs another reputable body shop.

I left my car in on the agreed date picked it up the following day more than happy with the job. I have no clue what the repairs cost. Money was never discussed.

These things happen I was just fortunate that they were good honest people.

Where is my eyeroll 🙄. You know already they didn't "accept" it. They called the gardai, found the person who did the damage, followed through and had it sorted. They just didn't escalate to a criminal prosecution for a bit of everyday paint damage in a garage car park. Carpark scrapes are slow speed, where cars are close together in very tight spaces and this easily happens. There is nothing wrong with showing a bit of kindness and decency to an elderly man, who is mostly likely living on a small fixed income, by deciding not to make a giant fuss about a tiny insignificant incident.

Deliberate misstating of the post and warping it into child endangerment is bizarre and smacks of trying to antagonise and bait.

OP, hope the CCTV does the trick. In my experience, the gardai are really excellent at sorting this if they can identify anything from the image. It shouldn't affect your insurance at all, it's usually filling out one form, including the garda report and the repair is covered. You may already have some cover on your insurance for minor scrapes, maybe check your policy for that too.

It's not the parking spaces that are getting smaller.

Is this definitely true? If the insurer has evidence that a third party is at fault, surely it would be fairly easy for them to make a direct claim against the third party's insurer, who isn't going to be in a position to context the claim, given the video evidence?

Yes. As it was explained to me by my insurance company you can pay your excess and they will chase the other insurance company for repairs and all costs incurred.

The cost incurred in respect of the assessors fees will not count as a claim under your policy and won't affect your bonus. If you proceed with a claim, you insurer can seek reimbursement from the 3rd party and, if successful, this will remove the claim from your record. However, insurers are not obliged to seek this recovery, if the chances of success are slim in relation to the costs which may be incurred in pursuing it

how will the insurer seek reimbursement if a registration cannot be obtained?

The security guard told me it's difficult to read the licence plate but he said Gardai maybe able to read it.

I was talking in general terms. If an insurer can't receive full reimbursement, the claim stays on your record. As I mentioned previously, if recovery is difficult and would involve more resources than it's worth, they may not bother and they're not obliged to.

Huge difference between a low speed scrape and actually driving over someone.

Emapthy, most of us were young and stupid and most want to get old and stupid too, difference is how a young person could cope compared to an elderly one.