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The test car has insurance. But the showroom guys say it is 3rd party and they will get only 5-10% of the amount. And for that a complete legal filing has to be there. They absolved themselves by claiming that papers were signed before test drive puts things in our court. They added salt to injury by claiming the drivers sped up during the turn causing the accident, when the police came for report.So the test car did not have insurance ?
If yes then all is covered by the insurance company, Simple.
As owners of the car, showroom guys have some liability too. Hence they pulled themselves out claiming the vehicle had speeded up. The question being if the car was at high speed , how did the bike rider who suffered the max impact had zero injuries and the pillion guy took the brunt in form of a hip fracture? I am also learning how things can get out of hand, so a dashcam is definitely the needed in Bangalore.Why will the showroom guys claim responsibility when they were not driving the car. Why din your sister just leave and go home if she was not driving, nobody can stop a woman from leaving.
Anyway im glad i just ordered a dashbcam for my car, will help me in such cases if god forbid it hapens ever.
It was an old moped. So, I doubt they have all the papers in place - let alone insurance, I doubt they even have a license. On top the pillion rider was not wearing a helmet.not a lawyer. just pointing out some things.
don't the bike guys have any insurance? if they don't, its their own fault. try to get cctv footage from nearby shops etc.
they can claim insurance from their own provider too. I say don't give any money as settlement. They are just trying to double dip and gain money from the women. I think their aim is to make the women pay entire bill and give all receipts from hospital to their insurance and get money for free.
if they want to drag it in court let them. I bet going to court will make them take u turn and take any money you are offering. don't give anything since they have already taken the matter to court and everything now is sub judice.
doctors and hospitals don't care who is at fault and only care about the money.
The part of the problem is they aren't ready to take any responsibility. So, they were not ready to go legal or allow us to buy peace. They just want to milk us for the whole amount possible.Cases like this can get ugly. More lawsuits could follow. In two accident cases I know, the plaintiffs filed for lakhs of rupees claiming permanent disability (in one case mental trauma and inability to work).
If the other party is reasonable, I would say take responsibility for what your side did, buy your peace, and get on with your life.
As a countermeasure, get your lawyer to file a case for woman's harassment. It will give you leverage (the laws are pretty strong when it comes to women). Accidents happen. But they are no excuse for insulting or manhandling someone on the road.
It was an old moped. So, I doubt they have all the papers in place - let alone insurance, I doubt they even have a license. On top the pillion rider was not wearing a helmet.
Unfortunately there weren't any recordings of the accident. We have all the original bills from the hospital and even the MLC report which states things about hip fracture.
On Sunday, when my sister and her friend (guy) offered to take it to the police because they were not going to pay for full surgery, those guys balked and started shouting. They stopped them from leaving or even calling the police. Yesterday evening @ 5 the showroom guys claimed that the police has arrived and they have given a statement saying we were at fault because of speeding the vehicle on a u-turn. But, we haven't heard from the police to come and give our side of the story. So, I am unclear if the matter has reached police or not.
In the meantime, we had the hospital call us twice regarding money for bed charges.
don't the bike guys have any insurance? if they don't, its their own fault. try to get cctv footage from nearby shops etc.
they can claim insurance from their own provider too. I say don't give any money as settlement. They are just trying to double dip and gain money from the women. I think their aim is to make the women pay entire bill and give all receipts from hospital to their insurance and get money for free.
if they want to drag it in court let them. I bet going to court will make them take u turn and take any money you are offering. don't give anything since they have already taken the matter to court and everything now is sub judice.
them not allowing the woman and her friend to leave the hospital is illegal imo. you can file police complaint against them of harassment and extortion charges since they are forcing you to pay entire money and not budging.
learner license in enough to drive even a new vehicle if the L is put prominently on both wind shields.
Hospital can give duplicate copy of bills to patient if the guy tells them that he will give them some % in return. Most of stuff is computerized now and if you notice they ask people if you have insurance or not and the price of bed, medicines and stay depends on that answer. I've seen it first hand where they charge 25-30% more for people with insurance than for people without insurance.
One of the strangest thing here is the showroom guys spouted nonsense about customer security etc. They told us they wont share any details until action has been initiated. But it seems those details were divulged to either the opposite party or hospital.
We have checked with two lawyers. LL is for learning to drive which means hat a person cannot be driving the vehicle alone. A valid license holder has to be a co-passenger in the front seat to guide and help. So, unless the SA was not a valid holder, a fact we are unsure of, this was okay.Showroom's responsibility is limited to the fact that they allowed somebody without a valid license to test drive their car. As for sharing details, who knows if they collected the information with the help of a police officer.They may not give buckle and divulge details to the other party, but they will if those people brought a police officer with them, things would be different.
Last year, one of our office cab drivers got involved in an accident. As he was going on the main road to pick us up, some senseless lady ran across the road in order to cross it. There was a bus coming on one side and he could not brake or swerve and ended up hitting her. She ended up with a fracture (which was still way better than getting flattened out under the bus which she barely missed out). Technically she was the one completely at fault for crossing the road at an arbitrary location like that and that too by suddenly running. The lady was from a more well to do family than him. Getting involved in a lengthy police case would screw him and he knew it and the other party knew that they had the leverage since he drove cars for a living and they could put the entire blame on him. They milked him for what its worth and he ended up settling the matter by paying 3 lac.
Sorry but we discussed this with our lawyer and we were told to remove it.Why did you edit out the first post?
Bangalore? If yes, which showroom is this experience related with.. Would like to avoid it in future..