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God dam it. I park up in road and come back to find some pillock van driver has reversed up into my back bumper.

The van, a Mercedes Sprint 300D, had a large step on the back which the driver likes to use to move parked cars around...

The pillock reversed into the space behind me (in front of someone's driveway), shunted me back and then pulled forward.

To his dis-credit, he was still parked there when I returned with his front wheels on double yellow lines. So, I took photos and called the Police 999... they said that as he hit my car and did not leave any details to that effect with my car, i.e. a note on the windscreen, then they will prosecute him for "leaving the scene of an RTA" - road traffic accident.

999 told me to go to the nearest police station immediately and report it also, and gave me a crime number so it could be handled.

The police at the station took a RTA notice from me and viewed damage to my GTI and said they would pursue the van driver and PNC checked it to confirm it was not stolen - Cool!!!

So, I await to here from the company whose driver shuved my GTI around so that the van delivery company have to pay for a bumper and anything else damaged. If they refuse, I have photos!

I'm gonna enjoy this I feel compensation coming on if the gimp contests it.

I was driving down the road to work today and saw the pillock van driver parking his van in the same place where he'd hit me! So, I went and had a word... well, as much as I could considering he was French and made no sense at all when speaking his pigeon English.

Anyway, I showed him my GTI bumper damage and told him his rear step caused it. "Le Frog" seemed to then be aware he'd done it! ("Exclamation - oh, surprised he was Yoda").

He took my car reg and my name and said he'd report it to his company boss so I could make the claim.

I told my insurers this today cos he'd admitted responsibility and they will now check out his insurers to claim it. Cool! Now for the form filling. Ugg.

Meanwhile, the police have a ref number on him for failing to stop at an accident... gonna leave this for a while in case he don't pay out.

As long as you've got the companies details then you should be fine regarding payouts - I think it comes under some duty of care law, because he's driving a company van on company business, they have a responsibility to ensure he drives to an adequate standard and doesn't endanger or damage anybody - it's the same law that protects him from thm giving him an unroadworthy vehicle.. Or am I misunderstanding the law??

At the end of the day, if they don't pay you can sue the company..

This must be the worst driving combination ever - White Van Man + Merc Driver - dangerous!

Seems the white van French pig-dog has not even reported it to the company or insurance company, so I called his insurers direct and ask why it is that when he admitted doing it, that he has not followed the law and told his insurance company? After all, the police also have a record of this accident as I reported it at the time.

If I get no feedback this week, I will called the Police accident office and advise that Le Frenchie has avoided due process of law. They'll likely chase him up then for a conviction of leaving the scene of an accident. I'll get this one sorted one way or another.

go for it! BAST***

Well, here's the situtation. The Van company has been sent details of the accident by the Police Accident unit. They are prepared to charge a named van driver with:

"Failing to stop at an accident"
"Driving without due care and attention"
"Failing to report an accident"

and have sent these charges to the van driver's company.

All these are quite serious offences apparently.

The driver as named by the van company, has 28 days to respond, else he'll be in court.

So, I wait until new year as it seems to be a favourite for Van driving companies not to reply until the 28th day according to the police - they like to make it difficult for your claim to be processed so that you feel you should get it fixed yourself. It's a sort of "call your bluff" - if you fix it then they go 50/50 on insurance. What a scandel!

Well, I can wait and I will.