Finally after getting rear ended im April I got my check through the post of £1920
the lad was saying it was my fault but on he end I won't happy days
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i blew my dt up ... but i fixed it.... Then i crashed it.... but i didnt fix it right and 2 scouser's come in the middle of the night and left me with a working bike
nope for personal injury and i need to pay some debts off first :(
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i blew my dt up ... but i fixed it.... Then i crashed it.... but i didnt fix it right and 2 scouser's come in the middle of the night and left me with a working bike
I meant to pay off the finance quicker when I said put it in the car.
Also there weren't really any doubts on you winning the case for me, as near enough all rear end crashes are a shut and close case. The driver that drove into the back is liable, as they weren't reading the road ahead for some reason or another, on the phone or playing with their stereo, or having a natter with the person in the passenger seat. :)
No, we pay out more on people going around burgling houses for cars. And people running risks going around without insurance and crashing, it comes from the MIB when a driver doesn't have insurance. The MIB is everyone else who pays for insurance.
And people claiming in general pushes it up. But what else contributes is that fact insurance companies want a higher % of profits each year.
Nah it's defo whiplash claims. You get a car full of people, get tapped up the rear and everybody claims a few grand each wooohoo.
Not trying to have go at you or anything btw just saying...
Just ask yourself how many people you know that have been hit by a uninsured driver/robbed?
Cause I don't know anybody who has but I know lot's of people who claimed personal injury for "whiplash".
I think the rental company's and insurer's are in cahoots too, I was given a sv650 at £80 a day for nearly 2 months costing the other guys insurance nearly 6k.
Don't forget insurance companies are businesses, they're out for the money, not the consumers. And yeah, whiplash claims do add to it. But I think most people will go after easy cash, if they can. We're in a society where it's "normal" to claim for everything and get money.
And I'm from Leicester, we have a high rate of burglaries, along with vehicle theft and Asian jewellery. Although the one thing about the Asian community in Leicester, is they all seem to like insurance scams for a quick buck. Claiming stuff that wasn't there, and getting local Jeweller's to give them false receipts for money.
i wanted to sort it out outside the insurance but the guy wanted me to pay for his car. i told him no he hit me from behind he will have to pay for his car my bike and my gear but he didnt want to do it so i went through the insurance
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i blew my dt up ... but i fixed it.... Then i crashed it.... but i didnt fix it right and 2 scouser's come in the middle of the night and left me with a working bike
i wanted to sort it out outside the insurance but the guy wanted me to pay for his car. i told him no he hit me from behind he will have to pay for his car my bike and my gear but he didnt want to do it so i went through the insurance
What a douche, hopefully he can't afford an Audi anymore.
I understand that we live in a country run by people milking the system but everybody has a choice.
p.s thats so true 2strokemx, after a serious crash being alive and having all your limbs is all the matters.
I know of bikers that have had crashes and been off work for up to a year or two, with bad fractures. I think they're all more than welcome to the money, obviously they'd have earned about the equivalent if they were working the whole time, but some blind idiot either pulled out on them or went into the back of them. If your work involves lifting heavy stuff, you'll done if you have whiplash or back ache for a month or two. A little more than a month or two's pay, depending on wages.
Yes claiming does bring insurance up, but that's what it's for, when someone has a collision the victim in it gets paid for it. Personally, if I was hurt in a crash, I'd want the money as then I'll have extra to get a new bike on top of the bike money, crash a £500 bike, buy a £2500 bike.
What's really putting the prices up is the insurance companies wanting better profit percentage each year.
Also, if I get hit in a crash, first thing I'll be doing is claiming on the insurance, it's there for that purpose. One guy had a banger didn't want it in insurance, two weeks later his getting a claim on HIS insurance for a BMW and whiplash claim. He luckily found CCTV of the crash, and the BMW driver got done for insurance fraud.
i have a manual job and ill be honist my back still hurts on some days from the crash if he sorted my bike and gear out i wouldnt of gone through the insurance but tbh i did need the physio it worked alot
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i blew my dt up ... but i fixed it.... Then i crashed it.... but i didnt fix it right and 2 scouser's come in the middle of the night and left me with a working bike
At the end of the day, my mate had someone write his car off driving into the back of him. Shook my mate up big time, the guy ended up in the ICU. He was in shock for a few weeks after it happened, some whiplash and memory loss. Yeah he's back to normal now 12 months later...still hasn't been paid for compensation that was due to him at the time. He's fine now, does this rule still apply. At the end of the day, wrote off his pride and joy because the biker was speeding. Also shat him up and sustained so minor personal injury. For me i'd be livid if someone wrote off my DT! That alone I'd want every penny I could get....and I'm by no means a scrounger.
I think you guys are getting the wrong end of the stick here.
I have no problems with anybody claiming what they are owed as this is why you have insurance.
I'm not trying to single out Danny or judge him, I was simply trying to say this "whiplash" thing seems as bit out of hand.
e.g people claiming after the smallest bump when they are fine and this driving up costs for all of us.
I know a girl who was a passenger in a car and got 4k, she was fine and spent the money on a boob job.
I got less than this(personal injury not total) summer salting over my handlebars at 30mph after some noob reversed out me because I was honest about my injury's... my gear did it's job.
Many people told me, you crashed on bike claim everything hurts! The doc I went to see was clearly trying to get me to say things hurt more than they did but I'm just an honest guy.
I don't follow any religions or anything but I live my life the way I think is right.
Allot of people like that girl now days are mindless and selfish, no-one thinks about it they just want money for shi**y stuff they dont need to make them feel good, winds me up just thinking about it, its because they're not challenged is what i hate, they expect something and they get it. caught me in the wrong mood im going off topic now
At the end of the day, my mate had someone write his car off driving into the back of him. Shook my mate up big time, the guy ended up in the ICU. He was in shock for a few weeks after it happened, some whiplash and memory loss. Yeah he's back to normal now 12 months later...still hasn't been paid for compensation that was due to him at the time. He's fine now, does this rule still apply. At the end of the day, wrote off his pride and joy because the biker was speeding. Also shat him up and sustained so minor personal injury. For me i'd be livid if someone wrote off my DT! That alone I'd want every penny I could get....and I'm by no means a scrounger.
+1. You can get a new bike, but it wouldn't have all the work you put into the last one. Gear isn't cheap either, if you crash, chances are your gear is all finished. Even more so if the ambulance comes and they cut it all off with scissors.
As for people who claim under a little bump in a car, yeah they're idiots. All jumping on the bandwagon of easy cash. But lets face it, 17-20 year old's spending about £3,000 on insurance, they're going to look for a way to get it back, whiplash is a easy way for them to recoup that money, even without losing their NCB. Although I don't condone it.
However, if it's a biker and they got rear ended, I know they'll really have whiplash or back injuries. We don't have car seats to prevent whiplash.
Also the girl that got a boob job, are they any good? Hope they weren't them PIP ones, although that'd probably be karma if they were.
Hope they weren't them PIP ones, although that'd probably be karma if they were.
