Just noticed someone has crashed into my car...

[intrepid44]

Someone has crashed into my VW Golf whilst it was parked up outside the house. I have a suspicion that it was some dosey bint, picking up her kids from school, in a 4x4. So hopefully they are stupid enough to use that car again tomorrow, and I might be able to find out who it was. It may only have been worth £800 or so, maybe even less, but what makes people feel that it is perfectly acceptable to damage someone elses property and then simply drive off?...

I was about to put it up for sale as well, but it'll be worth even less now, so maybe a track slag is one option for it.

Anyway, does anybody have any advice as to how to proceed with this, should I phone the police up or should I try and see if I can find the car first and deal with it outside of the law?

[ArtVandelay]

Isn't it a crime to leave the scene of an accident? If it is, police might be interested but I've no experience of it.

[TheEnd]

Crime or not, it's getting proof/witnesses that will be the struggle.

[007 VXR]

feel for you ... not nice

[edo]

intrepid44 said:

Someone has crashed into my VW Golf whilst it was parked up outside the house. I have a suspicion that it was some dosey bint, picking up her kids from school, in a 4x4. So hopefully they are stupid enough to use that car again tomorrow, and I might be able to find out who it was. It may only have been worth £800 or so, maybe even less, but what makes people feel that it is perfectly acceptable to damage someone elses property and then simply drive off?...

I was about to put it up for sale as well, but it'll be worth even less now, so maybe a track slag is one option for it.

Anyway, does anybody have any advice as to how to proceed with this, should I phone the police up or should I try and see if I can find the car first and deal with it outside of the law?

Report it to the police by all means - but there will be little they can do without details of the car/witnesses.

Can you tell the colour or height of the car from the damage?

Certainly worth keeping an eye out for a car with matching damage, and camera to hand!

[intrepid44]

edo said:

intrepid44 said:

Someone has crashed into my VW Golf whilst it was parked up outside the house. I have a suspicion that it was some dosey bint, picking up her kids from school, in a 4x4. So hopefully they are stupid enough to use that car again tomorrow, and I might be able to find out who it was. It may only have been worth £800 or so, maybe even less, but what makes people feel that it is perfectly acceptable to damage someone elses property and then simply drive off?...

I was about to put it up for sale as well, but it'll be worth even less now, so maybe a track slag is one option for it.

Anyway, does anybody have any advice as to how to proceed with this, should I phone the police up or should I try and see if I can find the car first and deal with it outside of the law?

Report it to the police by all means - but there will be little they can do without details of the car/witnesses.

Can you tell the colour or height of the car from the damage?

Certainly worth keeping an eye out for a car with matching damage, and camera to hand!

I have an idea of the height, but I can't say about the colour of the car, it's simply taken mine down to the primer, but my car colour may well be on the car that damaged it.

I have a feeling that I won't get anywhere with it, due to the lack of witnesses, although I may be able to ask the school if anyone saw it happen, as the school is directly opposite to the house.

[Bernard80]

Agreed as above, someone did it to mine old car smashed back end in, even had a good idea who did as it had to have been a truck type vehicle. Plus it was on the street where I live but unless you have any kind of proof no nope. Sorry.

[anonymous-user]

Unfortunatly you have pretty much no proof, even if you find someone with a matching dent/scratch they will just say its a coincedence.

Its really st when this happens, someone hit my old focus on a car park and drove off. Causing quite a bit of damage.

I think you will just have to pay for it out of your own pocket

[C8PPO]

If it's taken yours "down to the primer" then the colour must be somewhere; i.e. on the car which knocked yours?

[bdr529]

If you see some dozey bint parked up in a Rav 4 with a nice coating of VW Green on it, start chipping away at her car with a chisel and just say you are just taking your paint back.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

ArtVandelay said:

Isn't it a crime to leave the scene of an accident? If it is, police might be interested but I've no experience of it.

Yes it is, and no they won't - from experience.

[The Wookie]

champ54321 said:

Unfortunatly you have pretty much no proof, even if you find someone with a matching dent/scratch they will just say its a coincedence.

If one were absolutely certain of the identity of the offending car, one might as well have seen it, and report it as such