Ever written off your car????

It all depends if it was his fault or not and how bad the accident was. He must have had one hell of a sneezing fit! Glad he's okay.
When I wrote off my parents car when I was a teenager it took a good few weeks for the assessment and then even longer for a payout for a new car!

Yeah , he was at fault, rear ended a work van. The van only suffered a small dent...where as our car's front it all crushed, the belts inside the engine are snapped...the whole engine has shifted from it's original placing...radiator is wrecked (leaked water all over the road)...abit of a mess I must say lol. Our insurance at the mo will cover repairs to the van, and loss of income for the driver. Well will definitely be a busy time for insurance company's this time of year!. Will just have to sit pretty and wait for the verdict....the cost to fix the damage would probably be more than paying out for the insurance claim....and one time when I crashed DP's boyracer car (he forgot to put me on the policy!) is was gonna cost over $3000...and that was to fix a headlight..and put a new bumper on lolz.

I think it's highly likely to be written off judging from the pics I've seen! Plus it was an old car with a $5000 valuation on it. On a good note DP only has 5 days of work til his holidays, so hopefully we'll be all set when he returns

It depends what type of cover you have for that Emma - most policies pay out the sum insured or the market value of the car - whichever is lower. Some companies have agreed value policies (where they pay out the sum insured regardless of the actual market value) but they're not that common.

We have comprehensive cover with State...we also have the agreed value thingy..which is $5000, the car was in good condition before the accident so hopefully if it does get written off we'll get agreed value. We didnt opt for the hire car add on, so luckily we've sorted out with the inlaws to use one of their vehicles for next week while DP is still at work.

Here's our poor car! lolz.....lots of damage underneath the bonnet too...and passenger door is jammed shut

My car got wrote off in England twice. The first time someone hit it whilst it was parked outside my house and their insurance gave me the money it was worth, about 1200 pounds plus I got the car back. It only had minor damage, I had it repaired for a couple of 100 pounds (wasn't fussed about the bent bumper etc) and put it back on the road. Then 6 months later a bus caused me to crash, i.e I could hit the bus or the parked car, so I hit the parked car, guy behind me had a choice hit the bus or hit me so he hit me. The damage to the front of the car (deemed the buses fault) wrote the car off, the damage to the back of the car (blamed on the guy behind me cos he should of been able to stop) also wrote the car off. It took over 6 months for me to get the money for the car and also damages for lost work, whiplash and the inconvenience of it all. Thankfully I had paid a little extra on my insurance, about 20 quid, to have a lawyer if anything like that happened. I got 1200 for the car (not bad when I had already got that 6 months ago as well) and 2000 for my injuries and the inconvenience of it all.
I think my one was purely complicated by the fact that the bus company was trying to claim the crash wasn't their fault even though the police nearly pressed charges against the bus driver and also they then had to decide who paid for what as there were 4 vehicles involved. The bus, the poor people whose parked car I hit, me and the guy that hit the back of me. Oh and there was also the tree that I pushed the park car into but the tree was ok.

Looks like a write off to me
You should have it sorted in no time, and yup, you should get the $5000 too.

I wrote off my car a couple of years back too. I was rear-ended and shunted into a car infront of me. I got my payout within a week but there were several reasons to that. First, there was a police report which helps identify who was at fault. Secondly the person at fault admitted it and also was onto their insurance company pretty quickly (and were insured!). All my insurance company had to do was get the vehicle assessed, a copy of the police report and then contact the insurance company of the person at fault. Once that happened - I had the money in my hand five days later!

It does depend on your insurance company too - have heard others who have taken a good month to do the same thing. Hope it all goes smoothly and quickly for you - especially at this time of year.

Assessor called today, and has written the car off. Just have to wait to hear back from the claims team to see how much the pay out is....yah!! then we can go car shopping