Car park prang

[spikey78]

So the wife has discovered a bit of damage on her car, and with a bit of detective work has narrowed it down to a suspect in the staff car park at work! She is going to check the cctv today-if the culprit is who she thinks it is she reckons that person will shrug it off and say 'tough luck'
Any opinions on the best way to proceed? What's the deal on private land?

[TooMany2cvs]

If the CCTV provides proof positive of them hitting her car, then just pass that to her insurer.
If it doesn't, then it is indeed "tough luck".

[gtidriver]

Report to police for failing to stop.

[foreverme]

gtidriver said:

Report to police for failing to stop.

Good luck with that, i think someone has hit my car in a private car park, not sure but i don't like John from accounts it must have been him...
Muppet advice....

[HTP99]

foreverme said:

gtidriver said:

Report to police for failing to stop.

Good luck with that, i think someone has hit my car in a private car park, not sure but i don't like John from accounts it must have been him...
Muppet advice....

If you get the reg number you can report to Police, it happened to my neighbour, he brought round a letter from the local Police to show me and to get a bit of advice as he had been reported as failing to stop at the scene of an accident and he was a bit worried about implications, he had to fill it in to confirm whether his car was there or not and if so who was driving, I believe that this information is then passed back to the person who made the initial complaint so that they can then contact their insurance company.

[foreverme]

Different case, that sounds more like true accident on a public road rather than a bit of car park damage.
If you have the reg then you could try the police they will not be interested though, the driver can always deny. Unless you have evidence or witnesses then unfortunately nothing more will happen..

[spikey78]

As predicted the owner denied it, but actually it turns out that she had lent her car to a colleague to nip to the shop or something and it was this person what done it (and then decided to keep quiet) Nice!
They've agreed to pay for repairs now they've been rumbled

[foreverme]

Good news and lucky they have admitted it. Let hope they then don't deny when presented with the bill...

[spikey78]

Quite, people are always surprised how much repairs cost.. I know a bloke who will do a good job for a very good price but it's still over £300