HJaz
31-12-2011, 01:28 PM
G'day, here's my story:
I was beginning a right turn at an intersection (I had a green arrow) in my Honda Jazz and was hit by another driver ("Wayne Kerr") in a head-on.
Wayne was already disqualified from driving. Basically he stole a car (but not before assaulting the owner), got drunk, ran a red light at 100km/hr through a 70km/hr intersection, got out of "his" car, and fled the scene. Substantial front-end damage, airbags went off, and gifted with some nasty whiplash, accelerator pedal into foot, etc, but otherwise very lucky. Pics of my car attached [forum error - front end is half squashed in, probably little of value under bonnet].
Police, ambulance, fire, etc turned up. Strangely the first three people on the scene were an off-duty motor vehicle assessor; an off-duty emergency doctor; and an off-duty firey.
Wayne was eventually found and charged and later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two weeks of picking up garbage for his efforts.
I phoned NRMA to make a claim after getting home. Long story short, I lost my credit card, had it replaced, forgot to tell NRMA, missed a payment, and all over red-rover.
The owner of Wayne's stolen car didn't have insurance, her car was a write-off too. So I'm looking for options of disposing my Honda Jazz 2007 VTI-s hatchback auto, as well as recouping the market value it was insured for ($15,000).
It turns out that Wayne has a bit of a criminal record as well as many tattoos across his forehead, and is on a Disability Pension as a result, about $700pf. I'm certain I will win in civil court and have been told that he has no assets. If I could get remotely close to having fortnightly payments out of his Centrelink money to subsidise car loan repayments for another car I'd be pretty happy. I'm guessing I would need to either represent myself, get a lawyer, maybe try one of those free ones on the TV? Anyone know about the cost of a solicitor?
Disposing of the car: I've had a wrecker offer $400 for the vehicle to be turned into scrap metal; and two dodgy men turned up at my door offering $500. Are there any financially better disposal options than that?
Thank you
I was beginning a right turn at an intersection (I had a green arrow) in my Honda Jazz and was hit by another driver ("Wayne Kerr") in a head-on.
Wayne was already disqualified from driving. Basically he stole a car (but not before assaulting the owner), got drunk, ran a red light at 100km/hr through a 70km/hr intersection, got out of "his" car, and fled the scene. Substantial front-end damage, airbags went off, and gifted with some nasty whiplash, accelerator pedal into foot, etc, but otherwise very lucky. Pics of my car attached [forum error - front end is half squashed in, probably little of value under bonnet].
Police, ambulance, fire, etc turned up. Strangely the first three people on the scene were an off-duty motor vehicle assessor; an off-duty emergency doctor; and an off-duty firey.
Wayne was eventually found and charged and later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two weeks of picking up garbage for his efforts.
I phoned NRMA to make a claim after getting home. Long story short, I lost my credit card, had it replaced, forgot to tell NRMA, missed a payment, and all over red-rover.
The owner of Wayne's stolen car didn't have insurance, her car was a write-off too. So I'm looking for options of disposing my Honda Jazz 2007 VTI-s hatchback auto, as well as recouping the market value it was insured for ($15,000).
It turns out that Wayne has a bit of a criminal record as well as many tattoos across his forehead, and is on a Disability Pension as a result, about $700pf. I'm certain I will win in civil court and have been told that he has no assets. If I could get remotely close to having fortnightly payments out of his Centrelink money to subsidise car loan repayments for another car I'd be pretty happy. I'm guessing I would need to either represent myself, get a lawyer, maybe try one of those free ones on the TV? Anyone know about the cost of a solicitor?
Disposing of the car: I've had a wrecker offer $400 for the vehicle to be turned into scrap metal; and two dodgy men turned up at my door offering $500. Are there any financially better disposal options than that?
Thank you