Insurer fails to establish fault
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• A Scottish haulier has slammed his insurance company, Crowe Insurance, for paying can a £10,000 claim to French police before discovering that a crash he was involved in was not his fault.
Jennifer Lupton, the haulier's partner, says the claim originated from an accident between Robert Lawrence, of Bay Transport, Dalgety Bay, and a French police car on 21 July last year at Passage.
Lupton says Lawrence was turning left in his truck, and had first checked that the oncoming road was clear.
"Midway through the turn a French police car collided with the truck." she says. "It came from the brow of a hill at excess speed and had no flashing lights or sirens."
The collision resulted in the destruction of the French car and a broken hip and leg for i passenger.
Lawrence was called to French police tribunal September this year on charg of dangerous driving. He w; eventually acquitted of Wan for the accident at a second ti bunal on 10 October, say Lupton, although she says appeal from French police ( the decision is likely.
Lupton says she is furious, ; her premiums have risen as result of the crash.
AH Smith, technical clain manager at Crowe, who dea with the case, says the clai was paid because he doubt( that Lawrence would emer$ from a court without "a RI' stantial finding of negligeno against him. He says Lawren4 had been in the truck for a lor time that day and his vehic was the one that was turning.