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'Sarah' is the Sarah in my team. A car crashed into her house last night, it's caused a huge amount of damage. Driver has just FAILED his driving test. Not his car - not clear if he took it with/without consent. Driving too fast (50 limit) , he skidded on the icy road and smashed into Sarah's house. He broke his finger, girlfriend in the car broke her collarbone. Sarah's house has been declared structurally unsafe. She spent last night with friends, the loss adjuster is visiting tomorrow, and in the meantime the Council has carried out emergency stabilisation work. If Sarah had been in the kitchen, she would have been seriously hurt.
Here's a linky with pic of the kitchen window:
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/02/12/icy-road-driver-ploughs-into-house/
SoulKiss
12-02-09, 01:10 PM
'Sarah' is the Sarah in my team. A car crashed into her house last night, it's caused a huge amount of damage. Driver has just FAILED his driving test. Not his car - not clear if he took it with/without consent. Driving too fast (50 limit) , he skidded on the icy road and smashed into Sarah's house. He broke his finger, girlfriend in the car broke her collarbone. Sarah's house has been declared structurally unsafe. She spent last night with friends, the loss adjuster is visiting tomorrow, and in the meantime the Council has carried out emergency stabilisation work. If Sarah had been in the kitchen, she would have been seriously hurt.
Here's a linky with pic of the kitchen window:
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/02/12/icy-road-driver-ploughs-into-house/
Well at least she is sorted if she needs a legal eagle :)
She looks moderately happy about it in the picture.
What a mess tho - see how much safer bikes are? You could never break a house with a bike.
No-one try to prove me wrong please!
thedonal
12-02-09, 01:14 PM
So I guess the driver could legally have been driving if accompanied by a driver in the passenger seat with at least 3 years on their licence etc....
So hopefully, in that situation, the insurance issues would be less aggro.
Still doesn't help when you're home, where you are supposed to feel safe, is left in ruins.
Speedy Claire
12-02-09, 01:14 PM
Poor Sarah... hope the damage gets repaired soon and she can get back home. Is so lucky she wasn`t hurt
Kate Moss
12-02-09, 01:17 PM
She was lucky she wasn't hurt, unlucky that it was her house!
Is she allowed time off for this Ed? :lol:
Poor Sarah... hope the damage gets repaired soon and she can get back home. Is so lucky she wasn`t hurt
It's going to be months, because the upstairs is damaged too - lots of cracks in the bricks, the front of the house will need to be rebuilt. The Council's buildingservices people have put pit props in to stop more movement, and they've boarded the house to stop thieves getting in. The hole in the wall by the window is where the kitchen sink used to be, and where the car - a Corsa:rolleyes: - hit the house. It then appears to have bounced out and ended up upside down in the road.
wyrdness
12-02-09, 01:20 PM
Is she allowed time off for this Ed? :lol:
Only if she takes it as holiday :D
Her house looks a mess. Hopefully she can get it sorted out and safe soon. She's lucky that she wasn't injured.
Only if she takes it as holiday :D
and gets rid of her bins.
Is she allowed time off for this Ed? :lol:
No:mrgreen: The paper turned up at the house at 7.30 this morning, Sarah is actually here now, as she has no place else to go - can't stop in the house, it's too dangerous, so she came to work:D See what a b&stard of a boss I am:mrgreen:
No:mrgreen: The paper turned up at the house at 7.30 this morning, Sarah is actually here now, as she has no place else to go - can't stop in the house, it's too dangerous, so she came to work:D See what a b&stard of a boss I am:mrgreen:
Make her day a little brighter then, give her bin back & suggest she spends some time relaxing on facebook. :D
No:mrgreen: The paper turned up at the house at 7.30 this morning, Sarah is actually here now, as she has no place else to go - can't stop in the house, it's too dangerous, so she came to work:D See what a b&stard of a boss I am:mrgreen:
See what dedicated staff you have Ed!:mrgreen:
reminds me of an accident that happened in my town, some people in a car, driver just passed test and somehow the car managed to go up a 20 degree hill, and not manage to stop a good 300ms later crashing through a petrol station courtyard and through a house, leaving the car fully inside the living room. Oh and the driver says he wasn't speeding.........what a joke!
Good to hear she is ok though, sounds like a right mess if the driver wasn't insured, bet he wont pay the full amount though.
Sarahs Hot! Shame about her house!
sorry mate, i did not see your house there
Bluepete
12-02-09, 01:38 PM
Sarahs Hot!
Glad someone else thought that! Didn't want to sound innapropriate, but Viney just jumped straight in!
Cheers Viney :D :D
I suppose as the caring boss you are, you will be offering her a loan of a camp bed and sleeping bag. Just think of all the unpaid overtime you get from her!
'Sarah' is the Sarah in my team. A car crashed into her house last night, it's caused a huge amount of damage. Driver has just FAILED his driving test. Not his car - not clear if he took it with/without consent. Driving too fast (50 limit) , he skidded on the icy road and smashed into Sarah's house. He broke his finger, girlfriend in the car broke her collarbone. Sarah's house has been declared structurally unsafe. She spent last night with friends, the loss adjuster is visiting tomorrow, and in the meantime the Council has carried out emergency stabilisation work. If Sarah had been in the kitchen, she would have been seriously hurt.
Here's a linky with pic of the kitchen window:
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/02/12/icy-road-driver-ploughs-into-house/
You'd have thought she'd tidy up a bit before the photographer came round. What a hovel! Worse than my student house!
Got any bikini pics?
chris8886
12-02-09, 02:22 PM
Glad someone else thought that! Didn't want to sound innapropriate, but Viney just jumped straight in!
Cheers Viney :D :D
agreed! she can stay round mine, bit far though.
Dappa D
12-02-09, 02:34 PM
wow, as said lucky wasnt hurt/in the kitchen...and will take months of staying elsewhere etc, but on the flip side she'll get a brand new kitchen from the insurane company and possibly some other areas of the house too.
bin back and facebook......she can have facebook..but she will never get her bin! let her know the org sends their regards and hopes it gets sorted soon! :-) poser!
!!!!!!###!! blinkin heckers ... glad she is ok. Too bad that itīs going to take that long to fix it all for her.
I can remember yaers ago when I was working in a house at the bottem of a long hill.The customer had two brick walls running parellel along the front of the house.When I questioned this ,she said it was a stipulation of the insurance.She had been there 4 yrs and had already had 2 cars in the living room.
missyburd
12-02-09, 03:33 PM
He broke his finger, girlfriend in the car broke her collarbone.
Can't see that relationship lasting :rolleyes:
What a shock she must have had! Thank goodness she wasn't in that kitchen, glad she's ok.
Is the house going to be on the HPI register now?
. Driver has just FAILED his driving test. Not his car - not clear if he took it with/without consent. Driving too fast (50 limit)
so no insurance?
who will foot the bill then?
so no insurance?
who will foot the bill then?
Buildings insurance, I guess:confused:
Bluepete
12-02-09, 05:02 PM
As regards the insurance side of things.
We have had many a discussion on here about insurance companies covering or not covering third party risks, despite the policy holder either not holding a licence, not disclosing mods or points etc. Some say they will cover third party risks, but not the insured if a discrepancy is discovered. I thought that too.
On Tuesday, I was interviewed by a Solicitor about an RTC from 2006 where an injury claim in being contested. We got on to chat about insurance companies and so on. The bloke then told me of a case he is dealing with where a driver with a full UK licence and fully comp. insurance rear-ended a bus containing 15 passengers. All put in whiplash claims. The driver's insurance company has refused to accept liability on a small technicality as they are looking at 15 serious claims (he hit quite fast, I'm told!) and have basically walked away, leaving the driver to foot the bill.
The credit crunch, call it what you will, hits home in some very odd ways! Money is being saved by hook or by crook!
Pete
Buildings insurance, I guess:confused:
you mean you dont know?
pfffffffft,
Bluepete
12-02-09, 05:07 PM
you mean you dont know?
pfffffffft,
Hehehehehehe! Frikken solicitors, the know nuffin!
Love ya Ed!
Hehehehehehe! Frikken solicitors, the know nuffin!
Love ya Ed!
:smt019
<snip>Pete
Don't doubt you, so that means the guy could be bankrupted & it ends there.
but v. :confused: when it says on my insurance certificate that nothing in the ins cert limits a third party from claiming.
Dave20046
12-02-09, 05:51 PM
I would have smashed my self in the face with a brick, rolled about in the dust and got PI aswell :razz:
yorkie_chris
12-02-09, 06:39 PM
Should have been wearing a seatbelt then...
I would have smashed my self in the face with a brick, rolled about in the dust and got PI aswell :razz:
note to self "Smash Dave in the face with a brick and chuck him in the dirt"
thats the AR fun sorted.
Come on Ed .The old Ed would have been on the case
Biker Biggles
12-02-09, 07:06 PM
Shocking bit of careless parking.
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