Flashback
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I was slowly driving my husband's shiny new Merc out of our underground carpark after a few hour's work one Sunday, not slowly enough obviously. Looked one way not the other and crammed into an absolute s**tbox old commodore, not a single panel undinged. In fact you couldn't even tell which ding I did! About 6 young blokes piled out, and I thought - oh they are going to really try it on as it was totally my fault. No way they had insurance driving a total bomb.And I'm driving a flash car, naturally it'd be insured, cos we are responsible grown ups and that's what we do. I got out exclaiming 'oh my gosh, oh my gosh, my husband''s going to kill me, he will be absolutely furious" :evil:That last bit was true.....anyway they all got cheerfully back in the car saying 'don't worry love' and off they went. Phew.
JohnK I do think people try it on, and if they know you're insured will try harder. It's an anonymous insurance company and they have heaps of dough. How about telling the woman you can't claim through your insurance company and she may back off. Even if she doesn't she may then not try to inflate her repair bill. Maybe.
My only experience was when someone crossed 2 lanes of traffic to then cut me off so I slammed on the brakes and into the back of him. Chinese chap with a Chinese DL, no insurance, etc. Fortunately my insurance company happily found him at fault for his illegal actions, so my car was repaired under my insurance but no liability on me so my no claim bonus was fine, all repairs done and no worries. It probably didn't help his case that I don't think he really knew what was going on and he went to my insurance company and opened a policy with them the day after the accident perhaps thinking that would sort him out .... :mrgreen: it did at least mean they had all his details, easy!