[WillowTheWhisp]

It's not the same as being an independant witness to a crime. If it's your car it's your responsibility and who you lend it to is your responsibility just as it would be if you owned a rifle or something and lent it to somebody to do a spot of rabbit shooting and they used it to hold up a bank. Yep,pretty scary to have to face up to the fact that the person you lent it to broke the law but maybe it would make you think twice about lending things or at least who you lend them to.

I've got a personal axe to grind about drivers who claim "it wasn't me" because several years ago as my late husband and a friend were going down Oxford St and across to ASDA a speeding loony came careering along Hyndburn Rd and smashed into our car. Our friend got the registration number as it sped off and they reported it to the police. Both hubby and friend and several witnesses said they saw a man driving the car.

When the police traced the car and got to the house the owner was on the wrong side of several cans of lager and a bottle of vodka. He swore he'd never been out in the car and his wife said she'd been driving. Despite the fact that everyone saw a man! Of course she was sober and he was drunk so it was easier for he to claim that she panicked and was full of remorse than for him to admit he'd been driving whilst severl times over the limit.

No way to prove anything of course so he got away with drink driving and probably went on to do it again.