Condo garage door / Vehicle rooftop collision

mapledelivery wrote: ↑ Halfway through the door, however, the garage door closed on top of his car, damaging the rooftop and the windshield cracked, too.

deadtorights wrote: ↑ Is the sensor not working ?

Cheapo-Findo wrote: ↑ Friend had dashcam?

mapledelivery wrote: ↑ The weird thing is, after hitting the rooftop, the door went back up. And during the entire time my friend taking picture, etc it stayed up there.
My guess is the angle of the sensor is narrower than one might think.

mapledelivery wrote: ↑ In my understanding, wouldn't the management have to prove themselves that it was his car that damaged the door if they want him to pay for its repair cost?

mapledelivery wrote: ↑ Unfortunately, he doesn't. This is where all his trouble comes from. No witness, no footage whatsoever for both parties.

In my understanding, wouldn't the management have to prove themselves that it was his car that damaged the door if they want him to pay for its repair cost?

Xtrema wrote: ↑ Well, you did tell them already and admitted to it.

UrbanPoet wrote: ↑ How do you prove you didnt damage it? Its the most likely scenario

mapledelivery wrote: ↑ Hmm... Then it's gonna be a long shot for my buddy without some professional help, I guess.

mapledelivery wrote: ↑ The weird thing is, after hitting the rooftop, the door went back up. And during the entire time my friend taking picture, etc it stayed up there.
My guess is the angle of the sensor is narrower than one might think.

deadtorights wrote: ↑ Should have a sensor on each side of garage door that detect if a car is under the garage door or not.

Is the sensor not working ?

If sensor not working as intended, then could be a condo management fault for not fixing it. Only way to find out is to wait until the door close and put your hand on the sensor and see if the door stop closing. If door not closing record it by video as proof.

StatsGuy wrote: ↑ i was on Board at one of my condos and this comes up often where people try to tailgate car in front or "rush" before door comes down either because they can't be bothered to use their fob or they don't have one ...and we can tell if fob was pressed from the car that got hit.

mapledelivery wrote: ↑Hello, first time writing a thread in a hope to get some advice or help.
It's an accident happened to my friend, but my English is slightly better than him, so I'm posting this thread instead of him.
I will try to describe the accident itself and the current situation as much as I can.

So, my buddy was entering into condo garage (his wife with him), and the garage door was already fully opened from another vehicle exiting. Even then, he stopped, pressed his fob, and proceeded. Halfway through the door, however, the garage door closed on top of his car, damaging the rooftop and the windshield cracked, too.

He took a picture and notified the management immediately, but they said their management is not responsible in any way, and from what their facility team says, somehow the camera was not working at the time of incident, and there is no fob activity recorded as well.
They are saying my buddy owes them for the repair cost of the garage door instead.

Any thought on this? Thanks in advance for anyone with interest and your reply!

StatsGuy wrote: ↑ regardless of sensor or not, condo isn't responsible as the sensor is a "Backup" safety device, residents have to use the keyfob to to open it which OP said his friend did use and should've been recorded in the system.

i was on Board at one of my condos and this comes up often where people try to tailgate car in front or "rush" before door comes down either because they can't be bothered to use their fob or they don't have one ...and we can tell if fob was pressed from the car that got hit.

but if condo claims no record of fob (video won't do anything since it doesn't capture whether fob is pressed), then ya have to go through car insurance and let them deal with it

mapledelivery wrote: ↑ Hello, first time writing a thread in a hope to get some advice or help.
It's an accident happened to my friend, but my English is slightly better than him, so I'm posting this thread instead of him.
I will try to describe the accident itself and the current situation as much as I can.

So, my buddy was entering into condo garage (his wife with him), and the garage door was already fully opened from another vehicle exiting. Even then, he stopped, pressed his fob, and proceeded. Halfway through the door, however, the garage door closed on top of his car, damaging the rooftop and the windshield cracked, too.

He took a picture and notified the management immediately, but they said their management is not responsible in any way, and from what their facility team says, somehow the camera was not working at the time of incident, and there is no fob activity recorded as well.
They are saying my buddy owes them for the repair cost of the garage door instead.

Any thought on this? Thanks in advance for anyone with interest and your reply!

UrbanPoet wrote: ↑ Ohh!!! And the plot thickens... So this is probably what happened.
OP. I think your friend might not be telling the full story.

StatsGuy wrote: ↑ regardless of sensor or not, condo isn't responsible as the sensor is a "Backup" safety device, residents have to use the keyfob to to open it which OP said his friend did use and should've been recorded in the system.