Neighbours friend hit my car

antodeco · 20-05-2015 08:17PM #1

As the title suggests, there was a visitor in with a neighbour. They were parked beside me.

Anyway, came out just after the person left and they hit the side and rear panel of my car. Fair bit of damage. Knocked into the neighbour and they basically fobbed me off. I went to the Gardai straight away with the reg of the other car. They said they would contact the owner. I also rang my own insurance as a record of the incident.

What's my next course of action? If the Gardai can't do anything, am I pretty much snookered?

punisher5112 · 20-05-2015 09:18PM

antodeco wrote: »

As the title suggests, there was a visitor in with a neighbour who parked partially blocking my driveway. I was able to get into the driveway, but wasn't fully in it. I was half stickin out. I live in a keyhole cut de sac, so it's the only way people can park off the road.

Anyway, came out just after the person left and they hit the side and rear panel of my car. Fair bit of damage. Knocked into the neighbour and they basically fobbed me off. I went to the Gardai straight away with the reg of the other car. They said they would contact the owner. I also rang my own insurance as a record of the incident.

What's my next course of action? If the Gardai can't do anything, am I pretty much snookered?

Is there any cctv in the area and was the reg plate noted?

bjork · 20-05-2015 09:20PM

Take pictures of the damage

Markcheese · 20-05-2015 09:34PM

Go back to your neighbour - get their name and address - ( tell them otherwise you are getting on the gards immediately - don't say you already have)
Go round with your phone and video /and photo their car - straight away- get as much detail as possible - May not be a great idea to knock on the door first- if you can see the car easily -

coylemj · 20-05-2015 09:40PM

Markcheese wrote: »

Go back to your neighbour - get their name and address - ( tell them otherwise you are getting on the gards immediately - don't say you already have)
Go round with your phone and video /and photo their car - straight away- get as much detail as possible - May not be a great idea to knock on the door first- if you can see the car easily -

Steady on now - it's nothing to do with the OP's neighbour. Just because someone was visiting doesn't mean the neighbour is responsible for his (visitor's) actions.

In case you didn't read the original post, it was the visitor's car which hit the OP's car - the neighbour is neither legally nor morally responsible for what happened.

bbbbb · 20-05-2015 09:41PM

Markcheese wrote: »

Go back to your neighbour - get their name and address - ( tell them otherwise you are getting on the gards immediately - don't say you already have)
Go round with your phone and video /and photo their car - straight away- get as much detail as possible - May not be a great idea to knock on the door first- if you can see the car easily -

I would disagree with this.
The guards should be able to tell you who the insurer of the other car is if you have the Reg.
I would keep the neighbours out of it.

antodeco · 20-05-2015 09:42PM

The car is gone, this is the issue. I'd never seen this car here before, so it's hard to track down. No cctv as only just houses.

Gumbo · 20-05-2015 09:52PM

antodeco wrote: »

The car is gone, this is the issue. I'd never seen this car here before, so it's hard to track down. No cctv as only just houses.

Reg plate is enough.
The guards will get in touch with the opener, tell them they left the scene of an accident and to come to an arrangement with you or else they will persue them for the hit and run.

This is what I've seen on numerous occasions in the past, hope it's what they do now.

BettePorter · 20-05-2015 10:04PM

kceire wrote:

Reg plate is enough. The guards will get in touch with the opener, tell them they left the scene of an accident and to come to an arrangement with you or else they will persue them for the hit and run.

Same thing happened to my sister a few months ago, came back to car and another driver came and said a car had reversed into side, got out, seen damage and driven off. They had reg etc. Fair bit of cosmetic damage. We went to guards..... who didn't even come out to the car park to look at damage. Just said ' I' ll ring them but if they say it wasn't them there is nothing you can do '. Basically don't call us we ll call you brush off ****e.

Pov06 · 20-05-2015 11:18PM

Hah good luck. Our neighbour reversed into our car on the day I was waiting for a buyer to come look at it. I knew it was my neighbour because they had a new dent in their bumper with my car's colour on it.

I rang the Gardai, they arrived and told me I cannot do anything without CCTV footage.

So as usual - criminals get away with what they do and the average Joe suffers

Markcheese · 20-05-2015 11:24PM

coylemj wrote: »

Steady on now - it's nothing to do with the OP's neighbour. Just because someone was visiting doesn't mean the neighbour is responsible for his (visitor's) actions.

In case you didn't read the original post, it was the visitor's car which hit the OP's car - the neighbour is neither legally nor morally responsible for what happened.

I got the bit about it being the neighbours friend / visitor - so I'd tell the neighbour that unless I got the visitors details I'd be getting on to the guards about their visitor .
Only reason for that is if the gardai are stretched - and the op doesn't have the reg plate or an address they're not going to have much chance to find the damaged car and it's owner - and at the least the op has a reg plate, address and photos of both cars to pass on to insurance company -

ScottStorm · 20-05-2015 11:47PM

Op - you said the car was partially blocking your drive, but it there was space for you to pass?

You state that you were half out of your drive, Was there another car in your driveway that prevented you from fully pulling in?

You have the other vehicles reg, did you get it off cctv or when you left your car did you expect the other car to hit you?

Edit - just curious, not an attack on op.

ba_barabus · 20-05-2015 11:55PM

ScottStorm wrote: »

Edit - just curious, not an attack on op.

Doesn't matter, if they hit a stationary car it's their fault in a situation as outlined above.

Neighbours friend hit my car

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