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why was your friend driving?
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He kept bugging me about driving, i drove the whole way there and i was planning on driving on the way back but he insisted on driving...
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I took too long to post Personally, if I was the friend, I'd kiss ur butt for having insurance and pay the excess myself. |
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i am not sure if you should ask for money - for sure he should offer to help, but the responsibility for the accident does come down to you. if you did not let him drive, then he would not have crashed your car unfortunately, some lessons are painful to learn |
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if my woman was like my car, I'd be able to turn the volume down!
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He asked to drive the car he pays the excess, no if's no but's no may bee's.
If he offered to drive because you were too drunk to drive home from the pub, or you asked him to drive then I believe you should probably cover the excess, as he was doing you a favour to drive the car. What the excess is does not matter, the driver of the car is responsible for the car, end of story, especially if he asked to be driving. I have a low excess of $500 if myself or my wife drive the car, we are however the ONLY drivers, any other person drives the car the excess is $5000.......yes $5K......but it matters not one bit to me as it is not my problem. If anyone else asks to drive I tell them about the 5K excess, and most opt not to drive. Quote:
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#38 | ||
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Do you think you would have missed the object had you been driving?
Share the costs amongst all of you and laugh about it over a beer in years to come. |
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#39 | |||
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was this discussed before hand unfortunately this does not help the op, but this should be a warning not to lend your car unless you are absolutely certain, the driver will pay in the event of an accident. and also you should have an agreement covering mechanical failures and canaries too to me, it is too hard to lend a car out. there are too many variables that can go wrong and therefore strain a friendship. if you must lend it, lend it to someone you don't know, because you are likely to get as much money back from them, but at least a friendship is not ruined |
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Any ideas on how to apporach/bring it up with him..... ?
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