Crash and run

billyhead · 30-12-2009 10:38am #1

Folks,

Last week somebody banged into my car while I had it parked and drove off. There were no winesses. They must have caused a few hundred euro of damage as there is a dent in the drivers door. Pissed off big time over this in that I will have to fork out for the repairs myself.:mad:

cjt156 · 30-12-2009 10:41am

:mad:I really hate that. Same thing happened to me a couple of years back, I picked up bits of wing-mirror hoping to do a CSI-job on it. Never found the fecker.

CJhaughey · 30-12-2009 11:28am

Happened to my wifes car, she got home and I remarked on the dent, she hadn't noticed. Pissed off but what can you do? Unless someone sees it happen and leaves a note.

W.Shakes-Beer · 30-12-2009 11:34am

Happened to myself aswell.

Parked car, went into shops, came out and some fecker ran the front corner of his car along the side of mine. couple of hundred gone:(

irony!!: the day i got it back from the body shop, sitting in my friends house, my car was outside and all of a sudden we hear a bang and we went outside and some clown had come reversing across the road like a bat out of hell and demolished the othe side of the car. This was more like €2000 worth of damage and an insurance job and nealy had to write car off.

All fixed now though *touches wood*

Guy:Incognito · 30-12-2009 1:20pm

Similar thing happened abou 2 years ago to my missus 00 Scenic. Rear drivers side quarter panel mangled. Then we changed the car to an 05 Scenic and within 2 months, the exact same thing happened:rolleyes:. The world is just full of cuntz.

EPM · 30-12-2009 1:23pm

Happened me recently. Nothing major but still costly. Only difference was I knew who did it...sweet revenge:D

squishywishy · 05-01-2010 1:32am

Same thing recently happened me. Someone witnessed it but they are denying it. Any advice on what I can do????

dermot_sheehan · 05-01-2010 1:45am

If you're hit by an untraced motorist you can claim off the mibi
http://www.mibi.ie/

squishywishy · 05-01-2010 1:55am

gabhain7 wrote: »

If you're hit by an untraced motorist you can claim off the mibi
http://www.mibi.ie/

Had a look at that site earlier today but it seemed to me that they only cover personal injury not damage to car. My car was parked outside my house at the time. Maybe I read the MIBI site wrong but thats what I understood

The-Game · 05-01-2010 2:04am

gabhain7 wrote: »

If you're hit by an untraced motorist you can claim off the mibi
http://www.mibi.ie/

Handy to know, but it seems to be only if there are personal injuries as a result of the crash.

Where the offending vehicle is not identified there is no provision in the 1988 or the 2004 MIBI Agreements to recover losses for vehicle or property damage. The 2009 Agreement introduced compensation for vehicle or property damage against an unidentified vehicle where there are significant personal injuries arising from the same accident.

Unfortunately like the others mine was hit while parked and the swines drove off never to be seen.

Gary ITR · 05-01-2010 2:08am

A neighbour of mine banged into an old company van I had.... I gave out sh1t to her, mostly because she did it at 6am and felt fit to wake me up to tell me. Decent of her to let me know though

df1985 · 05-01-2010 2:28am

id say with the weather a lot of people will have dents and tips in there cars this weather especially if you park on a street in an estate.a car spun out on the corner of my road today not even going that fast!

daveharnett · 05-01-2010 2:58am

squishywishy wrote: »

Same thing recently happened me. Someone witnessed it but they are denying it. Any advice on what I can do????

TBH my advice is that you ask a professional, not the internets.

dermot_sheehan · 05-01-2010 4:09am

The-Game wrote: »

Handy to know, but it seems to be only if there are personal injuries as a result of the crash.

Unfortunately like the others mine was hit while parked and the swines drove off never to be seen.

Yep, just had a look at MIBI agreement and saw that provision.

I was looking at EU directive that MIBI agreement implements earlier
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:263:0011:0031:EN:PDF

And saw that member states are given option to limit claims for damage to property, it looks like ireland took that option.

milltown · 05-01-2010 9:13am

squishywishy wrote: »

Same thing recently happened me. Someone witnessed it but they are denying it. Any advice on what I can do????

A visit to the Garda station would be my first thought. Will your witness help you take it further or was it just "I saw him do this, then drive away. Do what you want with that info, I'm out."

squishywishy · 05-01-2010 5:29pm

milltown wrote: »

A visit to the Garda station would be my first thought. Will your witness help you take it further or was it just "I saw him do this, then drive away. Do what you want with that info, I'm out."

Have spoken to the garda and they have been talking about hit and run charges etc but I just want my car fixed and paid for by their insurance so I can get back to work etc. Cant see this being top of the garda's list of priorities

Run_to_da_hills · 05-01-2010 6:27pm

If someone did that to me I would look around for smashed lenses, plastic trimming, skuff marks in the body work etc

I would then try to get the make and model of any parts identified at a factors. If it happened in a housing estate it wouldn't take too much to look around for a car with damage and put 2 + 2 together.

This happened to my brother a few years ago and he traced it to some idiot down the road with a corner from his rear lense that was found beside his car.

squishywishy · 05-01-2010 7:51pm

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

If someone did that to me I would look around for smashed lenses, plastic trimming, skuff marks in the body work etc

I would then try to get the make and model of any parts identified at a factors. If it happened in a housing estate it wouldn't take too much to look around for a car with damage and put 2 + 2 together.

This happened to my brother a few years ago and he traced it to some idiot down the road with a corner from his rear lense that was found beside his car.

Have traced who it appears to have been but they deny it

Crash and run

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