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24 hour accident recovery

Crashed and cannot drive it? We will come and get it

Accident recovery anywhere in the UK, day or night. One call and your vehicle is moved, stored securely, and a replacement arranged. On a non-fault claim it costs you nothing.

Written by the claims team at PTH Claims · Answered 24 hours a day

Recovery, 24 hours a day

Tell us where you are. We will do the rest.

Roadside, motorway, car park or police pound. We recover cars, vans, taxis and motorcycles anywhere in the UK.

0121 516 6441

Answered day and night, including weekends.

Or answer four quick questions and we will ring you
Free if it was not your faultRecovery and storage charges go to the at fault driver’s insurer, not to you.
Free with comprehensive coverIf the accident was your fault and you are comprehensively insured, it is covered.
Storage includedYour vehicle held at a secure site while liability and the engineer are sorted out.

You do not have to use your insurer’s recovery

This is the part most people do not know. After an accident that was not your fault, you choose who recovers your vehicle and where it goes. You are not obliged to accept whoever your insurer or the other driver’s insurer sends.

It matters, because the vehicle that comes out to you decides what happens next. Use ours and the recovery, the storage, the engineer’s inspection and a replacement vehicle are all arranged together, with the cost recovered from the driver who caused it.

Ring your own insurer first and you have started a claim on your own policy, usually with an excess to pay and a claim on your record, even when none of it was your doing.

What happens when you call

Most calls take under ten minutes.

1

Tell us where you are

A road name, junction or postcode is enough. We will ask whether anyone is hurt and whether the vehicle is in a dangerous position.

2

Recovery is dispatched

We arrange the nearest available recovery vehicle. If you are in a live lane or blocking a road, that happens immediately.

3

Your vehicle is taken to a secure site

Not left at the roadside overnight, and not sitting in a compound running up charges you did not agree to.

4

A replacement is arranged

Like for like, matched to what you were driving. Often the same day.

5

We deal with the insurer

We pursue the at fault driver’s insurer for the recovery, the storage and the hire. You do not chase anybody.

If anyone is injured or the vehicle is in a dangerous position, call 999 first. Ring us once everyone is safe. We do not handle personal injury claims and we receive no payment in connection with them.

What we recover

Anywhere in the UK, at any hour.

Cars

Any make, driveable or not, including electric vehicles that need specialist handling.

Vans and commercials

Transit, Sprinter, Luton and tipper. We can arrange a replacement van the same day.

Taxis and private hire

Licensed vehicles, with a licensed replacement so you keep working.

Motorcycles

Recovered properly on a bike trailer rather than strapped to a flatbed.

From police pounds

Storage charges build daily. The sooner you call, the less it costs somebody.

From multi-storey car parks

Low clearance sites where a standard recovery truck cannot get in.

Vehicle off the road right now?

Call us and we will arrange recovery today. Nothing to pay on a non-fault claim.

Common questions

It depends where you are and how busy the network is in that area, but roadside and scene recovery is normally arranged straight away, and often within a couple of hours. If you are in a dangerous position, say so on the call and it is treated as urgent.

On a non-fault claim, nothing. The charges are recovered from the at fault driver’s insurer. If the accident was your fault and you hold a comprehensive policy, recovery and storage are met under your own insurance. If neither applies, we will tell you the charges before anything is arranged. Terms and conditions apply.

No. You are entitled to choose who recovers your vehicle and where it is taken. Using us keeps the recovery, storage, inspection and replacement vehicle together, and the cost is pursued against the driver who caused the accident.

Handled against the at fault driver’s insurer, you are not claiming on your own policy, so there is no excess to pay and no effect on your no-claims discount.

Yes, and it is worth ringing quickly. Pound charges build every day and are one of the costs people are most often surprised by. We can arrange release and recovery.

Yes. We are Birmingham based and the office is staffed from there, but recovery is arranged across England, Scotland and Wales, 24 hours a day.

We will still come out. Recovery and storage are met under a comprehensive policy. What changes is the replacement vehicle, because there is no at fault insurer to recover that cost from.

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