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Greater London accident management
A London-specific accident management company for non-fault drivers. 24/7 recovery, like-for-like ULEZ-compliant replacement vehicle, independent engineer, PAS 125 / BSI compliant repair and direct dialogue with the at-fault driver's insurer. Zero upfront cost to you.
UK response
Recovery dispatch and live claim handlers, 365 days a year.
UK cities
Direct coverage
Response
First contact SLA
Cost
Upfront to driver
What we do
From the moment you call us at the roadside to the day the at-fault driver's insurer settles your claim, we coordinate every step. You drive away in a like-for-like replacement; we deal with the recovery, the storage, the engineer, the repairer and the insurer correspondence. There is no upfront cost. The schedule is recovered from the at-fault driver's insurer under established UK credit-hire authority.
01 · Recovery
A flatbed or wheel-lift recovery vehicle is dispatched to the scene of your collision within minutes of your call. Recovery runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with realistic ETAs that reflect peak-time congestion on the principal London corridors.
Your vehicle is taken to a CCTV-monitored partner yard kept inside or close to the London boundary so recovery mileage stays low - that protects the recovery line from third-party insurer challenge weeks later, and keeps your vehicle accessible if you need to retrieve personal items.
02 · Replacement vehicle
Where credit hire is appropriate (Lagden v O'Connor; Dimond v Lovell), the at-fault driver's insurer is responsible for placing you into a like-for-like replacement vehicle while yours is repaired or replaced. That means equivalent class, equivalent fuel type, equivalent transmission and equivalent practical capability - not a token economy car.
Every replacement placed in London is screened for ULEZ compliance before delivery and, where your normal route crosses the Central London Congestion Charge zone, screened for that exposure too. No additional charge to you for either.
03 · Engineering & repair
Before any repair starts we commission an independent engineer's report. The engineer is not on the at-fault insurer's panel and is not paid out of a cost-controlled budget - they assess the damage against full retail repair scope and against your vehicle's pre-accident specification.
The repair itself runs through a partner repairer who works to PAS 125 / BSI standards, with a full audit log, manufacturer-approved parts where applicable, and a structural integrity sign-off on Cat S retentions before the vehicle returns to the road.
04 · Insurer claims handling
Once the file is open, every letter, schedule, evidence pack request, chase and counter-offer with the at-fault driver's insurer goes through us. You do not need to be on a recorded line, you do not need to draft a Section 170 statement yourself, you do not need to keep a chase calendar. We do.
Where the at-fault driver is uninsured or untraced, we route the claim through the Motor Insurers' Bureau under their 2017 Uninsured / Untraced agreements, with your separate written consent. Where injury is involved, we refer to an authorised legal partner - again only with your separate written consent.
How we help
The first hour after a non-fault collision sets the evidential foundation for the whole claim. Open the file with us inside that hour and the rest runs to a predictable timetable.
Hour 0-1
Make the scene safe, exchange details, photograph the layout and signals. Call us inside the first hour so we can dispatch recovery and start drafting evidence requests before CCTV retention windows expire.
Hour 1-24
A 24/7 recovery vehicle takes you and your car to a CCTV-monitored partner yard. We file the police report (if reportable) and lodge the council, TfL and National Highways disclosure requests inside the 14-day retention window.
Day 1-3
We commission an independent engineer's report. Repair scope and like-for-like specification are evidenced before the at-fault insurer's first reserve is set, so the schedule is grounded on retail comparables, not auction prices.
Day 3-14
You collect a like-for-like ULEZ-compliant replacement. Repair runs in parallel through a PAS 125 / BSI-compliant approved partner repairer with a full audit log. Or, where total loss is the call, retain Cat S/N salvage if you prefer.
Week 4-12
We pursue the at-fault driver's insurer for the schedule (vehicle value, hire, storage, recovery, excess refund, loss of use). You pay nothing. Property damage typically settles in 6-18 weeks; injury referrals run on a separate consented track.
Why drivers in London choose us
We are not a referral broker, a claims farm or a generalist national handler with a London map pinned to the wall. We work London road-by-road, council-by-council, police BCU by police BCU, and we keep an evidence pack tight enough to defend on challenge.
"Two things matter on a non-fault claim: did you preserve the evidence in the first 72 hours, and is the schedule clean enough that the at-fault insurer cannot pick holes in it. The rest is just chase."- internal claims handling note, applied to every London file
We work road-by-road and council-by-council. We know which authority owns which stretch of A-road, where TfL and National Highways meet, and which Met Police BCU covers each borough.
Our engineers are not paid out of a cost-controlled insurer budget. They assess the damage against full retail repair scope and your vehicle's pre-accident specification.
Every line of the schedule - daily hire rate, storage day count, recovery distance, engineer's fee, repair scope items - is documented and disclosable on request. Nothing bundled.
We talk to the at-fault driver's insurer directly. No chase-by-email through a portal, no waiting weeks for a callback. The schedule moves on a defined cadence.
Approved partner repairers only. Manufacturer-approved parts where specified. Structural integrity sign-off on Cat S retentions. Full audit log on every job.
Want to keep your car after a Cat S or Cat N total loss? We negotiate the deduction against the insurer's salvage agent's actual buy-back rate, and coordinate the DVLA paperwork.
Ready when you are
Open your London non-fault claim in under five minutes.
London minicab & PHV
London private hire vehicles are licensed by Transport for London under the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998, with separate driver, vehicle and operator licences plus ULEZ-compliant or Zero Emission Capable vehicle requirements. Uber, Bolt, Addison Lee, FreeNow and Wheely drivers - and their passengers - work to rules that differ from a standard private motor claim. London-specific PHV guidance, including operator notification and loss-of-earnings evidence, sits on the dedicated page.
London minicab & PHV accident claimsLondon is unusual among UK cities in being made up of 33 separate councils: 32 London boroughs plus the City of London Corporation. Each council is the highway authority for its residential and local A-road network, and each borough has its own postcode mix, traffic profile, council CCTV coverage and policing arrangement. Generic city-level pages miss those distinctions; we have a dedicated page for every council, with the real postcode districts, area names, A-road list, hospital trusts and Met Police BCU (or City of London Police, where applicable) for that specific borough.
Inner London
The denser inner-London boroughs typically have higher pedestrian and cyclist casualty rates, larger council CCTV networks and a partial overlap with the Central London Congestion Charge zone.
Inner London
Met Police Central North BCU
View Camden coverage →Inner London
City of London Police
View City coverage →Inner London
Met Police Central East BCU
View Hackney coverage →Inner London
Met Police West Area BCU
View Hammersmith & Fulham coverage →Inner London
Met Police North Area BCU
View Haringey coverage →Inner London
Met Police Central North BCU
View Islington coverage →Inner London
Met Police West Area BCU
View Kensington & Chelsea coverage →Inner London
Met Police Central South BCU
View Lambeth coverage →Inner London
Met Police South East BCU
View Lewisham coverage →Inner London
Met Police North East BCU
View Newham coverage →Inner London
Met Police Central South BCU
View Southwark coverage →Inner London
Met Police Central East BCU
View Tower Hamlets coverage →Inner London
Met Police South West BCU
View Wandsworth coverage →Inner London
Met Police West Area BCU
View Westminster coverage →Outer London
Outer London boroughs typically have higher motor-vehicle speeds, more rural-feel road sections and a higher share of motorway-adjacent or trunk-road collisions involving the M25, M1, M4, M11, A1, A2, A3, A12 or A13.
Outer London
Met Police East Area BCU
View Barking & Dagenham coverage →Outer London
Met Police North Area BCU
View Barnet coverage →Outer London
Met Police South East BCU
View Bexley coverage →Outer London
Met Police North West BCU
View Brent coverage →Outer London
Met Police South Area BCU
View Bromley coverage →Outer London
Met Police South Area BCU
View Croydon coverage →Outer London
Met Police West Area BCU
View Ealing coverage →Outer London
Met Police North Area BCU
View Enfield coverage →Outer London
Met Police South East BCU
View Greenwich coverage →Outer London
Met Police North West BCU
View Harrow coverage →Outer London
Met Police East Area BCU
View Havering coverage →Outer London
Met Police West Area BCU
View Hillingdon coverage →Outer London
Met Police West Area BCU
View Hounslow coverage →Outer London
Met Police South West BCU
View Kingston coverage →Outer London
Met Police South West BCU
View Merton coverage →Outer London
Met Police East Area BCU
View Redbridge coverage →Outer London
Met Police South West BCU
View Richmond coverage →Outer London
Met Police South Area BCU
View Sutton coverage →Outer London
Met Police North East BCU
View Waltham Forest coverage →London context
London is not just a big city - it is a tri-level highway authority area with its own ULEZ rules, its own 20 mph default, its own LTNs and school-street ANPR, and a policing structure split between 32 Met BCUs and the City of London Police. Every one of those signals affects how a non-fault claim is built.
National Highways manages the M25, M1, M3, M4, M11 and M20. Transport for London manages the TfL Road Network - most A-roads and the principal corridors. Each of the 33 London councils is the highway authority for its residential and local A-road network. Disclosure goes to the right one, inside the 14 to 31-day CCTV retention window.
The expanded ULEZ has covered every London borough since 29 August 2023. The Central London Congestion Charge zone covers the City of London, most of Westminster, southern Camden, Islington, Lambeth, Southwark and Tower Hamlets, and part of Kensington and Chelsea. Every replacement vehicle we place is screened against both - at no charge to you.
All 33 London councils now operate 20 mph as the default speed limit on most council-managed residential streets. Many operate Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, school streets and bus gates that restrict motor vehicle access at published times. Where the at-fault driver entered an LTN or school street unlawfully, the council's ANPR enforcement record is admissible as a liability factor. We pull the relevant traffic regulation order and ANPR record as part of the standard evidence pack.
Reportable collisions in 32 of the 33 London councils are handled by the Metropolitan Police Service Basic Command Unit for the area. The City of London is the exception - policed by the City of London Police, a separate force. Non-injury collisions are reported via the MPS Collision Reporting Service online (or the City of London Police equivalent). The section 170 Road Traffic Act 1988 duty applies to injury, undetermined-blame and details-not-exchanged collisions.
Transparent transactions
We are a London accident management company that runs on the at-fault insurer's account, not yours. Every charge - recovery, secure storage, engineer inspection, repair, credit hire and third-party insurer claims handling - is itemised in writing and recovered from the at-fault driver's insurer under established credit-hire and credit-repair authority (Lagden v O'Connor; Dimond v Lovell). The audit trail is kept clean enough to defend on challenge.
You pay nothing at the point of recovery, storage, repair or replacement vehicle placement.
Every line on the schedule is documented and disclosable on request. Nothing is bundled into an opaque "claims handling fee".
We do not deduct a percentage from your damages. Personal injury referrals are handled by authorised legal partners under their own published fees.
We tell you which losses (vehicle value, hire, storage, recovery, excess refund, loss of use) are recoverable from the at-fault insurer, and which are not.
Data-sharing, marketing and any injury-referral consents are kept separate, opt-in and never pre-ticked, in line with UK GDPR Article 7(2) and PECR.
Every disclosure request, signed authority, photograph, engineer's report and insurer letter is filed against the claim reference and retained for 7+ years.
Salvage retention
If your vehicle is declared a total loss after a non-fault accident anywhere in London, you do not have to surrender it. Where the independent engineer's report categorises the vehicle as Category S (structural damage, repairable) or Category N (non-structural damage, repairable), you have the right to retain the salvage and keep the car. The at-fault driver's insurer pays the agreed pre-accident market value less an agreed salvage retention deduction (typically 10 to 30 per cent). We negotiate that deduction against the insurer's salvage agent's actual buy-back rate, not the insurer's opening position.
Surrender the V5C logbook to the DVLA. A new V5C is issued reflecting the salvage marker. The vehicle must pass an MOT before returning to the road.
No DVLA process required. The salvage marker stays with the VIN for life, but the vehicle is otherwise treated normally for tax, insurance and MOT purposes.
Cat A vehicles must be crushed in their entirety; Cat B may have parts recovered but the shell must be destroyed. Neither category can be returned to the road.
Sentimental vehicles, modified or specialist cars, classics with limited supply, low-mileage well-maintained family cars where the market valuation undershoots replacement cost, and vehicles with bespoke disability adaptations.
The fastest way is to call. Or start the digital accident form and our team will pick it up. Available across England, Scotland & Wales.
Calls may be recorded for quality and compliance. We do not provide legal advice. Personal injury enquiries are referred only with your consent to authorised partners.
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London office
124 City Road
London, EC1V 2NX