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Old 25-07-2008, 12:06 PM   #1
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:08 PM   #2
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:11 PM   #3
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Nice park...

If I were the owner of that house I'd be suing the bollocks off that idiot (or his insurer).
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:16 PM   #4
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:16 PM   #5
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2 XR6T's the other day now an F6... Jeez not a good run for performance Cars the last few days..
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:25 PM   #6
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Nice park...

If I were the owner of that house I'd be suing the bollocks off that idiot (or his insurer).
For what???...
I'm sure his insurance will pay for all repairs to the house, garden, fence etc..
Suing for a big payout only leads to bigger premiums that we all have to cop.
This is not the USA. We don't need to sue because someone put their hand on your shoulder, or stacked their car into your house!!
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:38 PM   #7
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Now how could someone lose control of a car and end up like that?

Alergy related sneeze attack?
Bee/wasp/spider in car attacks driver?
Reaction to bad food/drink eaten earlier?
Component failure on the vehicle?

Any of these or other reasons could be cause.

Or it could be drugs, speed, hoonism, doof doof, not enough cylinders, wrong badge on car or whatever story seems like a good idea at the time.
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:44 PM   #8
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For what???...
I'm sure his insurance will pay for all repairs to the house, garden, fence etc..
Suing for a big payout only leads to bigger premiums that we all have to cop.
This is not the USA. We don't need to sue because someone put their hand on your shoulder, or stacked their car into your house!!
There's a good chance the house will have to be demolished and completely rebuilt if its damaged badly enough. The insurance payout will be as small as they can get away with and would probably only cover the house, contents damaged and perhaps any personal injuries. It won't cover the fact that it will screw your life up in the mean time. I don't know if you could sue them or not, I suspect that if you accept an insurance payout from the driver's insurer that means you cannot sue them. But if you had enough money and legal might you could take the other party's insurer to court if you felt (or could prove) that the payout wasn't enough to make up for the fact that some fool just put his car through your house.
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:51 PM   #9
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Now how could someone lose control of a car and end up like that?

Alergy related sneeze attack?
Bee/wasp/spider in car attacks driver?
Reaction to bad food/drink eaten earlier?
Component failure on the vehicle?

Any of these or other reasons could be cause.
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:56 PM   #10
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i thought i heard on the news this morning it was a unmarked highway patrol?

but obviously not.

oh well, another nice car goooone.
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Old 25-07-2008, 12:57 PM   #11
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I saw this on the morning news today. Was a 26yo driver. Anyone know of any 26yo FF members with a blue F6 that has become rather quiet today? :
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:00 PM   #12
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Nice park...

If I were the owner of that house I'd be suing the bollocks off that idiot (or his insurer).
And thats what is wrong with this country today. People are greedy and will sue for anything. Oh wow I have a bit of an inconvenience, lets take this to court, 100 thous shoud make it all better : .
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:04 PM   #13
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Imagine waking up to see an F6 on its side up against your house.......!!! Not something you'd expect thats for sure
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:12 PM   #14
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There's a good chance the house will have to be demolished and completely rebuilt if its damaged badly enough. The insurance payout will be as small as they can get away with and would probably only cover the house, contents damaged and perhaps any personal injuries. It won't cover the fact that it will screw your life up in the mean time. I don't know if you could sue them or not, I suspect that if you accept an insurance payout from the driver's insurer that means you cannot sue them. But if you had enough money and legal might you could take the other party's insurer to court if you felt (or could prove) that the payout wasn't enough to make up for the fact that some fool just put his car through your house.
You can tell by the roof that it was not a major impact (or it would be crushed), likely that the wall would have to be rebuilt.
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:15 PM   #15
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Imagine waking up to see an F6 on its side up against your house.......!!! Not something you'd expect thats for sure
Not something you'd expect but you have to see the opportunities. Wake up, F6 in your bedroom, no one to tell you that you can't strip all its goodies...
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:18 PM   #16
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Not something you'd expect but you have to see the opportunities. Wake up, F6 in your bedroom, no one to tell you that you can't strip all its goodies...



I was going to write that but i didn't want the AFF community to know about my thieving tendencies should a similar scenario arise!!! :evil3:
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I was going to write that but i didn't want the AFF community to know about my thieving tendencies should a similar scenario arise!!! :evil3:
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:23 PM   #18
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And thats what is wrong with this country today. People are greedy and will sue for anything. Oh wow I have a bit of an inconvenience, lets take this to court, 100 thous shoud make it all better : .
Too true

However, having someone crash into your house aint exactly a " bit of an inconvenience".........

If its a genuine accident........then that's what Insurance companies are there for..........and that will be for the police investigation to decide.

If however, it was found that the driver was willfully negligent.....then I imagine a civil case against the knucklehead wouldn't go astray..........something to ensure he doesn't see a license again for a set period of time.
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There's a good chance the house will have to be demolished and completely rebuilt if its damaged badly enough. The insurance payout will be as small as they can get away with and would probably only cover the house, contents damaged and perhaps any personal injuries. It won't cover the fact that it will screw your life up in the mean time. I don't know if you could sue them or not, I suspect that if you accept an insurance payout from the driver's insurer that means you cannot sue them. But if you had enough money and legal might you could take the other party's insurer to court if you felt (or could prove) that the payout wasn't enough to make up for the fact that some fool just put his car through your house.
I dont think you have your facts correct. If the house needed to be demolished the insurer would have to pay for temp accomidation and then recover off the driver (or car insurer)

It is a myth that all insurance companies refuse to pay claims. It is a heavily governed industry and there are bodies in place such as the ombudsman to ensure insurance companied do the right thing.
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:32 PM   #20
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And thats what is wrong with this country today. People are greedy and will sue for anything. Oh wow I have a bit of an inconvenience, lets take this to court, 100 thous shoud make it all better : .
So if decide to take my falcon out and try and be a hero and do 200 km/h past your house, but sadly I mix my ambitions and abilities up then plant my car nose first into your house, are you just going to go "oh jolly good chaps, thanks for the show, ta-ta" and walk off? I doubt it. You'd want to rip my nuts off and kick my for good measure I bet.

If some numbskull put a car into my house I'd be wanting to do more than sue them but sadly that's all the law permits us to do. Not saying this driver was doing anything illegal (although technically failing to maintain control of a vehicle is an offence in QLD) however.

BTW, if a driver did punt their car into your house AND they didn't have property insurance, your home insurer would have no choice but to take them chase them and perhaps to court to get the money back.

As someone mentioned above, having your house driven into at speed isn't exactly an inconvenience... I got hit in the back of my Falcon by some stupid on a mobile phone - yes my insurance company got it fixed and yes she will be found at fault but it cost me time off work and MONEY to drive to the various panel shops to get quotes then having to pay for cabs to and from the repairer plus not having a car for a week... oh and then I had to spend quite a few days writing back and forth between the companies. But you won't get insurance payout to cover that sort of thing.
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:33 PM   #21
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Now how could someone lose control of a car and end up like that?

Alergy related sneeze attack?
Bee/wasp/spider in car attacks driver?
Reaction to bad food/drink eaten earlier?
Component failure on the vehicle?

Any of these or other reasons could be cause.

Or it could be drugs, speed, hoonism, doof doof, not enough cylinders, wrong badge on car or whatever story seems like a good idea at the time.

Probably all those killer wasps under the bonet...
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I dont think you have your facts correct. If the house needed to be demolished the insurer would have to pay for temp accomidation and then recover off the driver (or car insurer)

It is a myth that all insurance companies refuse to pay claims. It is a heavily governed industry and there are bodies in place such as the ombudsman to ensure insurance companied do the right thing.
I didn't say they wouldn't pay but they won't get out the bucket of money and start pegging wads at you until you stop being annoyed... they will pay whatever they have to pay as stipulated in the policy, beyond that you're on your own.
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I didn't say they wouldn't pay but they won't get out the bucket of money and start pegging wads at you until you stop being annoyed... they will pay whatever they have to pay as stipulated in the policy, beyond that you're on your own.
Obviously there is some loss that a person sustains when they are involved in an accident, in this case the house needing repairs will take time. Society as a whole should not have to pay for time loss. If this was the case insurance premiums would be triple.

There are some costs in life that are unavoidable, its just a part of life.
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Old 25-07-2008, 01:39 PM   #24
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Now how could someone lose control of a car and end up like that?

Alergy related sneeze attack?
Bee/wasp/spider in car attacks driver?
Reaction to bad food/drink eaten earlier?
Component failure on the vehicle?

Any of these or other reasons could be cause.

Or it could be drugs, speed, hoonism, doof doof, not enough cylinders, wrong badge on car or whatever story seems like a good idea at the time.
He was obviously street racing, I mean it was a Hi Po car, it crashed, it doesn't take a rocket scientist (well journo anyway) much to work out that always means it was racing.
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Obviously there is some loss that a person sustains when they are involved in an accident, in this case the house needing repairs will take time. Society as a whole should not have to pay for time loss. If this was the case insurance premiums would be triple.

There are some costs in life that are unavoidable, its just a part of life.
Ahh but society does pay... e.g. time off work = lost productivity...
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He was obviously street racing, I mean it was a Hi Po car, it crashed, it doesn't take a rocket scientist (well journo anyway) much to work out that always means it was racing.

Such an unbiased , unblinkered view.........

Trial by car ownership.......we all better start driving HYUNDAI GETZmobiles for fear of being blamed for every single road car accident, the common cold, the high price of oil, world poverty and the poor living conditions of battery hens !!!!!!!!!!!!

Sheesh..........
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Could have had a seizure heart attack epilepsy anything .
Happened here a bloke had a seizure ran of the road and went through a fence ,nearly hit an aboriginal a group started attacking him and luckily a few soldiers stopped it gave him first aid and called an anbulance, the driver was unconscious. That was in a 4wd also a bloke in a truck had a problem with his heart blacked out and crashed off the road just because its a high performance car doesnt mean that the driver was doing something dangerous
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its really interesting to watch what is posted by everybody some good points some bad , it would be quite interesting to get the full story instead of a journo's narrow minded take on the situation but i dont think the news will go into anymore depth
the truth is a beautiful thing .
im just sheeding a tear for the poor car, f6, blue, sedan, i just want one
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Ahh but society does pay... e.g. time off work = lost productivity...
Thats true however this is how society works
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Im shocked, it hasnt been said yet - It'll buff out..... seriously like many have said the cause of the crash could have been from anything, I know this sounds bad but in a way its good it wasnt a P-plater so maybe some knuckle heads can understand not all accidents are caused by the under 20's. Hope he was okay and has good insurance cover, imagine if he had no insurance! That would hurt badly. A shame another nice street machine is off the road
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