Failure to Stop and residue paint

[anonymous-user]

My colleague in work mentioned last night someone has driven into his partners brand new Vx Adam and drove off leaving the drivers door and rear 1/4 panel quite badly damaged.

Now he has the first four letters of the plate and knows the cars colour and the police have narrowed it down to 174 cars but point blank said they will not go through them all.

I know its a bit CSI but from the paint transfer would he be able to identify the paint code and subsequently the make / model?

[anonymous-user]

As i said he has the first 4 digits; just seems despicable that there is nothing he can do. Best course of action will be to knock on the neighbours homes and see if there have been any visitors ... Obviously they may not own up but its worth a try.
This is what the police advised as well as keeping an eye out for the car IF it returns and they can get the full reg etc.

I would be very surprised if there is no damage on the car as the Adam is ruined!

FYI they live in a small Cul-de-Sac within a side street so its highly likely the car was a visitor.

Thanks for the response Gents; thought it may be a tad CSI 'esque'

[anonymous-user]

carreauchompeur said:

To be fair, the fact that the Police have even produced the list of potentials is a lot of work for a damage only accident. If it was a rare car, maybe, however any further investigation in these circumstances is completely untenable.

The last set of cuts have started to kick in, and are incredibly savage. Expect forces to be having to say 'no' to requests for service far more serious than this one. The fact a chief constable has stuck his head above the parapet and said his Force is likely to be bankrupt by 2018 illustrates the scale of the problem.

And there's 20% more to come off budgets...

A lot of work? I'd question that as the officer who my friend reported this too had teh details whilst on the phone within 15 seconds of him giving the details he had; and for the response above with respect to corresponding damage the nature of the damage in relation the that on his car along with any corresponding paint / damage would prove quite a link - I'd assume.