dashcamsource said:
sludgeguts, I admire your OCD-like meticulousness. My question for you is - if your insurance was happy with the dashcam video, why did you decide to go through all the extra work to build the DVDs? Did everything work out well, and did the other guy end up paying for his mistakes (and lies)?
The claim form was, obviously, paper - but there never seems to be enough space on the form to give a blow by blow account - hence why I wrote everything down in a word doc & notepad (just in case).
The extra footage was to show how the junction should be driven. As it happened, when I drove it, 4 cars got there before me, 2 in each lane - and they all navigated the junction exactly as it is intended - as it is marked out.
My typed statement used numerous images to show how the route should be driven along with pics of signage etc & the fact that in my additional clip, 4 cars drove the route exactly as I described it should be driven...
TBH, it isn't that much work when you're not trying to cover your ass.
Everything did, indeed, work out well. My initial thoughts on my damage were a few scuffs to OSF bumper & wing - turned out I hit him harder than I thought - needed new steering geometry. By the time my car went in for repair, the OSF tyre was really badly scuffed.
As for the other guy, he was going to, almost, the same place as me - he lived behind my son's school (I was doing the school run). My car had obviously caught his NSR 1/4 panel & ripped his bumper off. The car was sat on his drive for months after, according to a neighbour (who went to my lad's school), the car wasn't driveable since I'd bent the rear end a bit & his insurance refused to pay out.
The story he was telling everyone (inc his insurance) was that two lanes merged, he was ahead of me, as we merged, I hit his rear end - therefore I was at fault. I wonder if his insurance refused to pay on account of HIS dangerous driving & HIS consistent lying (according to my insurance, after my verbal statement was so different, he was given chances to change & he refused.)
I'm guessing that his insurance viewed the video & decided his wrecklessness and lies had void his insurance?
My repairs would've been the best part of £2k, his would've been considerably more.
This video was on an old T-eye cam. On the inside vid, you could 'just' make out his car speeding up on my offside.
And this is why I like to have front & rear cams.