A legal issue here.
Over 3 years ago I had a car crash. I was doing about 20 ks an hour on this truely terrible narrow gravel mountainous road in a toyota prado towing an off road camper trailer, car probably worth 35k second hand. Camper trailer undamaged. I had the wife and 3 kids in.
A bloke in a clapped out 20 year old toyota hylux, probably worth 5 k, was doing way too fast and lost it going around a corner and slammed into me.
After the crash, there was no hostility at all. We were all very calm. The other bloke admitted to me he was in the wrong. Every thing was fine. He admitted he was going too fast [but so what?] and we parted after exchanging details. I reported the crash to police, etc.
His car was a right off, and mine got about 20k damage. I got the car repared, insurance paid for the lot. I even rung this bloke up, and he said he was very very sorry, and offered to pay my insurance excess, and he did. Can't get much better than that eh?
So, just a month ago I get rung up by some woman from my insurance company. [No,,,, correction, she's from a lawyers firm..??]. She's asking me all these details over again. Rung up another few times, asking the same questions. Then she sends me this big document. Is it an affidavit? All these questions are again on this document, and I'm supposed to sign it in numerous places to say it's all true.
It appears it's going to go to court. The document says I'm the plantiff, and the other bloke is the defendant..??
What the hell is this all about?
Should I sign it?
Dad reckons I should take it to a solicitor?
What happens if I screw the document up and chuck it?
Maybe the other bloke had no insurance, and my insurance company is up him for the money? But it's really only my word against his, so how could he be proven quilty? No one else saw the crash. hell..!!, it took 20 minutes for another car to even come along.
So why am I the plantiff? It should be the insurance company surely?
I have no problem with the other bloke. I got my car fixed, and the other bloke even payed my excess.
What do youse all reckon here..??
See ya's.
Over 3 years ago I had a car crash. I was doing about 20 ks an hour on this truely terrible narrow gravel mountainous road in a toyota prado towing an off road camper trailer, car probably worth 35k second hand. Camper trailer undamaged. I had the wife and 3 kids in.
A bloke in a clapped out 20 year old toyota hylux, probably worth 5 k, was doing way too fast and lost it going around a corner and slammed into me.
After the crash, there was no hostility at all. We were all very calm. The other bloke admitted to me he was in the wrong. Every thing was fine. He admitted he was going too fast [but so what?] and we parted after exchanging details. I reported the crash to police, etc.
His car was a right off, and mine got about 20k damage. I got the car repared, insurance paid for the lot. I even rung this bloke up, and he said he was very very sorry, and offered to pay my insurance excess, and he did. Can't get much better than that eh?
So, just a month ago I get rung up by some woman from my insurance company. [No,,,, correction, she's from a lawyers firm..??]. She's asking me all these details over again. Rung up another few times, asking the same questions. Then she sends me this big document. Is it an affidavit? All these questions are again on this document, and I'm supposed to sign it in numerous places to say it's all true.
It appears it's going to go to court. The document says I'm the plantiff, and the other bloke is the defendant..??
What the hell is this all about?
Should I sign it?
Dad reckons I should take it to a solicitor?
What happens if I screw the document up and chuck it?
Maybe the other bloke had no insurance, and my insurance company is up him for the money? But it's really only my word against his, so how could he be proven quilty? No one else saw the crash. hell..!!, it took 20 minutes for another car to even come along.
So why am I the plantiff? It should be the insurance company surely?
I have no problem with the other bloke. I got my car fixed, and the other bloke even payed my excess.
What do youse all reckon here..??
See ya's.
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