Accidental Car Damage Abroad - No European breakdown Cover
Apr 9th 2018, 11:30 am
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Re: Accidental Car Damage Abroad - No European breakdown Cover
"Liability" is a legal term. The law doesn't legislate on private arrangements made between individuals. Thank goodness.
What you're talkiing about is personal responsibility.
In the light of what you've just said, I would say that if the colleague was only driving the car as a favour to the owner, then assuming he didn't run over a boulder, or whatever, on purpose, then owner should full take responsibility. Sounds like the driver has already suffered considerable inconvenience and wasted time and emotional upset.
If the owner asked the colleague to drive his car, to save him the trouble of taking his own friends to the airport, then the owner was responsible for setting the situation up. It would be reasonable to assume that he had thought through the implications. Otherwise he shouldn't have made the request in the first place.
When you agree to do someone a favour, you don't expect it to come back and smack you hard in the face do you, otherwise you would never do anyone another favour.
Conversely, if the driver had wanted to borrow the car for his own personal reasons, and the owner had lent it as a favour, then the driver should sort out any problems that arise. For exactly the same reason - that the owner had done him a favour and therefore, should not lose out as a result of doing that favour.
That's my personal view FWIW.
What you're talkiing about is personal responsibility.
In the light of what you've just said, I would say that if the colleague was only driving the car as a favour to the owner, then assuming he didn't run over a boulder, or whatever, on purpose, then owner should full take responsibility. Sounds like the driver has already suffered considerable inconvenience and wasted time and emotional upset.
If the owner asked the colleague to drive his car, to save him the trouble of taking his own friends to the airport, then the owner was responsible for setting the situation up. It would be reasonable to assume that he had thought through the implications. Otherwise he shouldn't have made the request in the first place.
When you agree to do someone a favour, you don't expect it to come back and smack you hard in the face do you, otherwise you would never do anyone another favour.
Conversely, if the driver had wanted to borrow the car for his own personal reasons, and the owner had lent it as a favour, then the driver should sort out any problems that arise. For exactly the same reason - that the owner had done him a favour and therefore, should not lose out as a result of doing that favour.
That's my personal view FWIW.
Worthy view indeed, exactly as we thought, thankfully you put it into words.
Recent knowledge from the driver has unfortunately found that the owners behaviour has a history of court cases and attempting to drink people dry of money whatever the situation, friends and money in freak accidents appear to not mix very well either. Let's see how this one pans out.
THanks to everyone with there knowledge and thoughts.
Jan 10th 2019, 7:15 am
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Re: Accidental Car Damage Abroad - No European breakdown Cover
The owner of this vehicle is now sewing the 3rd party driver and taking no responsibility whatsoever for lending the vehicle to this person, and mentioning the friends that were to be driven to catch there connecting transportation, where in fact clients, when in fact - they were friends.
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Jan 10th 2019, 8:14 am
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Re: Accidental Car Damage Abroad - No European breakdown Cover
It's surprising he has any friends, really.
Jan 10th 2019, 1:38 pm
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Re: Accidental Car Damage Abroad - No European breakdown Cover
The owner of this vehicle is now sewing the 3rd party driver and taking no responsibility whatsoever for lending the vehicle to this person, and mentioning the friends that were to be driven to catch there connecting transportation, where in fact clients, when in fact - they were friends.
Happy Days
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