Thought I'd have a rant (sorry)
Couple of weeks ago, while on my way home from work, I got "rolled into".
I was stood at traffic lights with my foot on the brake - when a van ran into the back of me (the driver said he'd rolled into me). His roll into me pushed me forwards a foot.
Anyway, we swapped details, took pics and left the scene. On my way i decided to phone the "office" number he'd given me. It was genuine and was told that the driver was a director of the company - so it would be sorted out.
I called my insurance company, who acted straight away and booked a hire car and a repair center. Now I told the insurance co - that while there is no visible damage to my 4x4, as the impact caused the towball to go through the front of the van and rip most of it off, I wanted the towball checking for alignment and any damage caused to the chassis.
a week passed and heard nothing more, so I decided to give my ins co. They told me that they had contacted the logistics company but had nothing back. They put me on hold and phoned them.
The logistics co director said that as there was no damage to my 4x4 they didnt bother telling their insurance co.
My insurance co gave them 14 days to notify and pass details on (this is up sometime this week) or else....
What put the wind up them was that I'd told my insurance co that the morning following the incident I'd got a bad back and gave me grief all that day having had to climb light rigging and then stand for 3 hours behind a mixerdesk (one of my colleagues gave me a heat patch for my back but all it did was stay cold and smell bad - I'm convinced she gave me a leg wax pad by accident)
I now have a solicitor, an accident repair center and a "like for like" hire car on stand by. All im bothered about is having the towball checked out for damage...
Annoyingly, I left my rear facing camera on my desk - so no visual record of the incident (yes I carry both forward and rearward cameras recording my journeys for such things)
Couple of weeks ago, while on my way home from work, I got "rolled into".
I was stood at traffic lights with my foot on the brake - when a van ran into the back of me (the driver said he'd rolled into me). His roll into me pushed me forwards a foot.
Anyway, we swapped details, took pics and left the scene. On my way i decided to phone the "office" number he'd given me. It was genuine and was told that the driver was a director of the company - so it would be sorted out.
I called my insurance company, who acted straight away and booked a hire car and a repair center. Now I told the insurance co - that while there is no visible damage to my 4x4, as the impact caused the towball to go through the front of the van and rip most of it off, I wanted the towball checking for alignment and any damage caused to the chassis.
a week passed and heard nothing more, so I decided to give my ins co. They told me that they had contacted the logistics company but had nothing back. They put me on hold and phoned them.
The logistics co director said that as there was no damage to my 4x4 they didnt bother telling their insurance co.
My insurance co gave them 14 days to notify and pass details on (this is up sometime this week) or else....
What put the wind up them was that I'd told my insurance co that the morning following the incident I'd got a bad back and gave me grief all that day having had to climb light rigging and then stand for 3 hours behind a mixerdesk (one of my colleagues gave me a heat patch for my back but all it did was stay cold and smell bad - I'm convinced she gave me a leg wax pad by accident)
I now have a solicitor, an accident repair center and a "like for like" hire car on stand by. All im bothered about is having the towball checked out for damage...
Annoyingly, I left my rear facing camera on my desk - so no visual record of the incident (yes I carry both forward and rearward cameras recording my journeys for such things)