Tailschwing:
. It’s an enquiry asking for the name of driver in connection to a charge of driving without due care and attention
If its not been sent to you from the police direct then ignore it. The truck owner might get a notice from the police asking who was driving but that’s up to them to send back details not you.
Tacho printout is the only way to legally prove whether you were driving so get one of those asap.
Btw if your LTD with the agency rather than PAYE, I would suspect the agency is wanting to offload it off their back amd will try to claim it against you.
But get that tacho printout before you do anything.
It’s not the TC. It’s the traffic process office (part of police by looks of it). Company have sent me my tacho record so pretty much beyond doubt I was driving on that day. To be fair, it looks like the company are supposed to fill in the doc, but I think it’s going to come back to me either way as hard to dispute tacho log.
What’s in doubt is whether I was involved in any incident. As far as I know it’s just the one guy claiming so and there’s no damage to truck or any evidence on the cams.
I’m really not sure why this isn’t just being dealt with by the insurers tbh.
Tailschwing:
It’s not the TC. It’s the traffic process office (part of police by looks of g. Company have sent me my tacho record so pretty much beyond doubt I was driving on that day. To be fair, it looks like the company are supposed to fill in the doc, but I think it’s going to come back to me either way as hard to dispute tacho log.
What’s in doubt is whether I was involved in any incident. As far as I know it’s just the one guy claiming so and there’s no damage to truck or any evidence on the cams.
I’m really not sure why this isn’t just being dealt with by the insurers tbh.
Does it say on the letterhead, on various parts of the letter e.g. Cambridgeshire constabulary, with a contact address at the police HQ or a police station. Remember series the evidence/ physical evidence. Photos, video.
We had a similar incident few years back, bloke had caught his car on a gate, saw one of ours leaving a premises, rung up said your truck just hit my car, I’ve phoned the police, They phoned local Nick, locals came round said there’s no evidence or proof, examined said truck, looked at photos of damage to car, said a truck didn’t cause that damage, and left, When a truck swipes a car with rear bumper bar, does a lot of damage to the car, think tin opener.
Yes, it’s clearly from the traffic part of local police force. It’s just a request to identify driver in connection with DWDCA and not a notice of intent to prosecute (yet). No evidence mentioned but not sure that would come at this stage. I don’t imagine there is any as don’t think there were CCTV cameras around and nothing on the truck cams etc.
Just the word of the guy (which could still be enough from what I’ve read).
I would do nothing, you can’t be done for leaving the scene if you weren’t there, and even if you were there, you are not aware.
Wait for a visit from Plod,
Wheel Nut:
I would do nothing, you can’t be done for leaving the scene if you weren’t there, and even if you were there, you are not aware.
Wait for a visit from Plod,
This^^^^^^^>
Also, if the driver of the car that you aledgedally hit, just took your reg no as you were passing his already damaged car. It does happen.
To be honest, I find the whole idea of DWDCA a bit of a ridiculous idea here anyhow. Let’s just say for the sake of argument that somebody does take off a car wing mirror…this isn’t usually the same as a driver going through a red light or rear ending a car whilst eating a sandwich etc.
We have to get into some pretty tight spaces in unwieldy vehicles and many times the address hasn’t been pre-checked by the traffic office - I’ve had to pull out many a time and tell them to send a van instead due to unturnable corners etc. I’d wager that a lot of scrapes happen when drivers have to back out of really tight spots with inches on either side of them.
Admittedly, we are expected to drive to higher standards than the general public for obvious reasons, but the couple of scrapes I’ve had previously weren’t due to not paying attention. Both times I was sweating it big time going “oh ■■■■, that car’s blocking the turn, how the hell am I going to back out of here”. 99% of times you get out ok but driving for eight hours a day in tight city spaces you’re eventually going to have a scrape and it’s not down to undue attention but just the odds.
I don’t think I hit anything on the day in question but it’s an absolute certainty that I wasn’t driving recklessly and that seems to be the charge here.
I’d just let them send anything they need to send but dont sign anything yourself as that could be seen as admitting to something. The firm is for the vehicle owner / operator not you.
Suspect nothing will come of it to be honest. They might want to ask you about an alleged incident, but just deny knowing anything since you don’t and they have to show you did something and had reasonable grounds to know.
I know somebody who damaged a car,and left the scene,after leaving a blank piece of paper under the wiperblade.
Only trouble is…someone took his details and reported him.
Day in court,fine and points soon followed.
Well, I’ve not heard anything further after returning letter and stating I wasn’t in an accident on that day.