Lottie F

Review of Carpenters Solicitors

If you want someone to get you a fair result, Carp...

If you want someone to get you a fair result, Carpenters are not the solicitors for you. They demonstrate no drive to win cases which is a great shame for the company & for their clients.

I had an accident at an unmarked carpark crossroads. Another driver smashed into the side of my car. He didn't see me & I didn't see him. We both arrived at the similar time (I was on the road slightly before him going roughly half his speed). The law states nobody has right of way at unmarked crossroads, so I conceded that neither of us were wrong or right to go. Call me naive, but I didn't think driving slowly through a car park & being hit by a speeding car constitutes dangerous or reckless driving on my behalf (the only reason, according to various law sites someone would be held accountable for an accident at an unmarked crossroad). So I braced myself for a 50/50 result. However , carpenters solicitors (whom I was referred to by General Accident) don't seem to be interested in obtaining a fair result. I advised there was CCTV but, instead of obtaining the footage, they used a handful of stills from the CCTV which had been selected by the opposing solicitors & told me it showed I was at fault. I looked over the stills expecting to feel embarrassed & ashamed that I misjudged the accident so poorly... however, what I saw completely verified my account. I stated I was not happy with their decision to accept liability on my behalf. Even though the stills crucially missed the moments before impact (which would've more aptly demonstrated I was emerged for an ample amount of time to have been observed), it still demonstrated that the other driver was speeding, there were no markings & that I was on the road (though the damage to my car supported that too). I asked what I should do; I got no response, instead they updated my case stating they had closed it. I m am honest person, I didn't claim for whiplash or anything else I was offered &, had I'd sped out in front of him -or had it been me who'd driven my car at speed into someone else's - I'd have completely accepted fault. So I find it difficult to accept the injustice. The other driver sped into a car park, where children frequent & hit almost the middle of my car head on, the driver was the only one in the position to have braked to prevent the accident (I couldn't drive my car sideways to escape nor did I slam my car side-on into the front of his), yet they got of Scott free to keep driving dangerously, thanks to Carpenters.