Claim made against me

Unfortunately as far as I am aware you aren't. Not a the minute anyway.

Long story short, but I am going through something similar at the minute

where an asshole taxi driver ran into the back of me. He is claiming I ran

into him. Reckons he has it on dashcam, but told the Gardai at the accident

scene it wasn't available at the minute and has not given it to his insurance

company yet, even though the accident is over a year ago. Jumping through

the hoops at the minute and my solicitor told me we won't have any access

to any evidence/dashcam footage until just before the case is about to be

heard.

What did the Gardai say about what they saw in the footage?

You don't get to see it but your insurer will and they'll decide on action based on that.

So do you believe it happened then, or not?

I'd a guy "kiss" my bumper a couple of years ago. My bumper was only a week old, and it was small damage, but he still paid to respray it. I've had other small bumps from other drivers, but it doesn't bother me that much on areas that are already damaged.

Perhaps you could reach out and offer to pay for the damage yourself, which might be cheaper/easier?

I had a woman hit me from behind in traffic before, and wanted to pay to fix it herself. My repair place could do it for €440, but that was too much for the woman, so she went through her insurance. Ended up costing about €1200 as insurance wanted all new parts fitted to the damaged area.

wake up you/named drivers car did damage to parked car .Garda wouldn't have tracked you down and got your insurance details and gave it to damage car owner if CCTV didn't show your car doing damage to parked car

same thing happened to me few years ago got Garda to check CCTV Garda got there insurance details for me and Garda said he wants if possible pay without involving insurance and gave phone number. anyway phone him up he still denying it anyway told him I deal with his insurance car was fix within few phone calls to his insurance

Worth trying the security or management but footage probably gone now but I would still ask.

You have 2 years to present an injury claim and would you believe it's 6 years for a damage claim. Delayed litigation is a regular practice by solicitors. You will be sure the claimant will have all the photos, assessments, inspections, witnesses etc in order, whereas the defendant may have disposed of their vehicle, wiped over dash cam footage, mislaid witness information. It's tough out there

My understanding of GDPR legislation (data privacy) is that you are the owner of data/information relating to yourself, and therefore have an entitlement to ask for the footage from the 'data processor' (whoever filmed the alleged incident), and they have an obligation to provide same, and this is reasonable given the specific nature of the request.

Obtaining it may not be as simple as this, but it is possible.

I had to put pressure on them to get their investigator out.

The investigator made an appointment and never showed up so

I had to contact them twice to get them out.

The insurers have settled. You're not going to get anywhere.

Any video evidence would have only the person requesting the data in it, everything else including the alleged victim will be blurred as it would be a GDPR violation to give that data, so the video will show nothing of any use to the OP.

The claim has been settled, what do you thing will come from this request?

No way a garage is only charging only €50 per hour labour. Probably around €85. Then you have add VAT

I barely touched a bumper in traffic, literally like a kiss. But after close inspection I could see I had damaged it and was a brand new car, insurance paid €1200 for the repair which is exactly why we have insurance.

That's only a guesstimate by the OP trying to figure the 1,500 labour costs. Even at double that, 15 hours seems a lot just to fix a bumper kiss!

Which sounds about right

Yeah probably took around 10 hours day work for man and extra 5 hours is because insurance is paying 💰💰

also, you got charged the insurance premium. a common practice in the industry is to inflate the costs because its going thru insurance. I'm sure people will have a stick in their respective a55es, but that's a known phenomenon. it all depends on the level of damage, and the chosen method of repair. Assuming they didn't get a new bumper, then its a sand-down, filler, respray, seal reinstall jobby.. .if its a "light kiss" it may be been touched up/ 30 mins job.€2 materials. 1400 banked. of course this is all speculation.