Witnessed a drive off crash (parked car) today.

[anonymous-user]

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[egomeister]

anonymous said:

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Slim to none i'd say.....

[Vesuvius 996]

None.

She should think herself lucky not to be publicly flogged for daring to own a car that she paid for with wages she earned by hard work.

I hate this country. Run by Cs for the benefit of scum.

Edited by Vesuvius 996 on Friday 1st September 21:07

[Zeeky]

anonymous said:

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Depends if they can be ar*sed or not. They have a lead, so long as you are prepared to make a statement they should follow it up if the offending driver fails to report it in 24 hours.

[Kinky]

I had the same when taking the dog for a walk one evening.

I never ever heard anything - so no idea what happened, if anything

K

[John_W]

Rascal,
You did the decent thing (and good for you). Your witness statement will be useful for the victim's insurance company to claim against the guy who caused the damage. However the fuzz will do naff all.

See thread about 10 down about "accident then drove off" or something like that.

J

[jasandjules]

Plod will say, oh dear, we can't make money out of that one, best to ignore it.

Insurance will pay up.

[BO55 VXR]

jasandjules said:

Insurance will pay up.

Insurance will GO up!!

[lambochick]

I was in a similar situation in a doctor's car park. Left my details on the 'victim's' car, together with details of the car that had driven off. As far as I know the police weren't involved, but I was contacted by the insurance company. It would appear that the driver of the car that had driven off had tried to deny everything, but after I gave my description of him to the insurance company, he changed his tune, and everything got sorted out. What vindicated my decision to leave details at the scene was a subsequent thankyou card from the driver of the car that had been damaged. They were so thankful that they had not had to foot the bill for the repairs to their car, even though the damage wasn't that great. Made it all worthwhile.

[david87M3]

lucky you gave details, if she needs any further help please help her.
Some tosser drove into my car recently and drove off fortunately an mate was driving my car, We chased whilst I called the police the police forced him off the road and made him give me his details.
Now the dopey tt is saying we reversed into him......
As I said to my solicitor who is dealing with it "why would I call the police if I reversed into him and he drove off"
I wish I had a witness...

[targarama]

Station car park? Maybe a regular user. Watch out for the car next week. Esp. if they don't think anyone saw them crashing.

[tvr si]

i witnessed a drive off, and left my details on the window of the damaged car. police got involved and came round to take a statement. not sure what happened after that, but i think the victim pressed charges and made a claim against them. all very good.

the point of this is i thought that deed would be good karma. unfortunately it doesn't appear to work like that. about a couple of months after this incident i was left with £350 of damage to my wing after some ar*e drove into my car in a carpark and then bug*ered off. i really don't mind people driving into me (to a degree!!) as accidents do happen, after all it is only a car, but at least have the decency (or balls) to admit your mistake. some people are real scumbags.

i hate society sometimes, it makes me wonder why i even bother being genuine and honest...

tvr si

[Rob_the_Sparky]

I can tell you why people do this: There is no penality for lying but they have everything to gain. Deny everything and you pay nothing more often than not and even if caught there is no downside to your lying. You just have to pay up for what you would have done anyway.

If the penality rose if you were found to be lying (and rose substantially) then maybe (just maybe) we might start making some inroads.

Imagine how much longer scum would be in jail if their multiple denials counted towards an increase in their prison sentance/fine.

Rob

[targarama]

I had a neighbour try to deny his kid's bike (on stabilisers out for a ride with Dad) caused a nice gouge in my wing. Even after I said I didn't mind the scratch and it would mostly polish out (only my commute Audi) he still won't admit it even though the scratch is perfectly aligned with the brake lever and nothing else could have caused it and I'd seen them do an about turn smartish outside our house. He then had the audacity to walk around the back of my car to look at how old it was like that was going make a difference.

Now he's moved house from 6 houses away to next door

[DBSV8]

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Word, brother.

Well, got a call from Beds Pow-lice Accident Centre today. Traced car (ie DVLA computer has a Polo in same colour on that registration) and will write a letter to the registered keeper. Apparently they only visit if the letters go unheeded.

My only concern is that once the Scrotette that did it gets the letter she may just T-Cut the arse out of her bumper and deny everything.

Anyway, witness form being sent to me, and I've said I'm happy to help in anyway that I can.

ah but you witnessed said chavette !!! .......simple ID her if she denies

[eccles]

one of my american neighbours reversed into my kit car (the morning after i sold it on ebay!) and then disappeared off to london for a few days, when she came back she parked in a different part of the car park to her normal, allocated slot. one of my better neighbours had seen the whole thing and kindly infomed me.

i went out and measured the height of her bumper, and measured the height of the damage to my car and they matched, there was also quite a bit of my paint and bits of fibreglass stuck to her bumper.
i took a couple of pics.
amazingly that evening when she caback from work, her car was all shiny, and had obviously been valeted to within an inch of its life, and when i went round to confront her she denied everything, and said i couldn't prove a thing!
i then explained that i had a witness who'd seen the whole thing, and that i had pictures of her car before it was valeted she changed her tune completely and said it was just a misunderstanding!

the stupid cow cost me the sale on ebay, and caused no end of trouble trying to find a garage that could do proper fibreglass repairs!

[se9boy]

I was in similar position some time ago (see my comments on the 'accident & drove off' thread). I went to court twice - second time it was a 360 mile round trip because I had moved house by the time of the hearing. Even if the state had not paid my expenses for that day I'd have gone to court again anyway; I can't stand these bloody people who won't admit to their failings. The guy tried every possible route to worm his way out of it - and all at the tax payers expense.
Also agree that the system does not punish these people nearly enough - make 'em do a bloody hard day's work cleaning the streets in convicts clothing (or something similarly embarassing) - we could all chuck rotten fruit at them then!

[justinp1]

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ah but you witnessed said chavette !!! .......simple ID her if she denies

Agreed. What I would also do is find a time to go round there and take a photo of the bumper showing the number plate in the photo. *Just in case* I would also take a photo of the same car from a bit further back to show her house in the background. I would do this as if she starts lying through her teeth in court and to disprove this you present a photo of the damage, it is likely she would continue lying and say that it was not her car, etc. Then she would look silly.

[crackthatoff]

Ahh but on the flip-side there lots of tossers out there that love make a mountain out of a mole hill, ages ago I bumped into a rover 600, it was an absolute dog of a car on a p reg and i scratched his bumper on the car park.
The guy just shruggs and all seems to be forgotten so I leave my details anyway.. 2 weeks later I recieve a £300 quote for the respray on the bumper (even though it was a 1 inch light scratch that would have easily t-cut out) anyway I ended up meeting him back at said carpark with £150 cash.
Its no wonder people smash and leave with absolute Tossers like that about !!! GRRRRRRR

[black-k1]

crackthatoff said:

Ahh but on the flip-side there lots of tossers out there that love make a mountain out of a mole hill, ages ago I bumped into a rover 600, it was an absolute dog of a car on a p reg and i scratched his bumper on the car park.
The guy just shruggs and all seems to be forgotten so I leave my details anyway.. 2 weeks later I recieve a £300 quote for the respray on the bumper (even though it was a 1 inch light scratch that would have easily t-cut out) anyway I ended up meeting him back at said carpark with £150 cash.
Its no wonder people smash and leave with absolute Tossers like that about !!! GRRRRRRR

I have to say that I would probably be with the chap in the Rover on this one. The age and condition of the damaged car has nothing to do with the fact that the person causing the damage should be totally responsible for paying for the damage to be fixed. The re-spray of a bumper is pretty much the same price regardless of the age of the car and if a re-spray of the whole bumper is what was needed to get that inch of paint back to how it was then the whole re-spray should be paid for.

I drive an 11 year old ‘well worn’ Audi as my daily commute, but I see no reason why I should be expected to get less than the actual cost of repair for any damage done by someone else just because my car is old. Why should I have to live with/pay for damage caused by someone else’s lack of concentration/skill just because my car is not new?