Isn't this a bit wrong....

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I've only just heard about this incident, but it does make me wonder what the police are up to..... I haven't got all the facts as this is all told to you 2nd hand, and I'm sure there's an element of exaggeration, but most of the facts have been corroborated by more than 1 other person.

12th December and a Hunt (I won't name names here) are on a local estate when 2 or 3 hounds find and go off on their own. Their path leads them into the nearest village, where a resident calls the police as "The Hunt are trespassing on their garden". The police attend. No more is known to my friends past this point.

22nd December and my friend (and 2 others) are coming along a narrow road into the aforementioned village and has to take avoiding action when a young driver coming towards her in the middle of the road can't stop in time. The young driver and their parents (who attended later) refused to provide insurance details, refused to call the police, refused to even get out to acknowledge the damage done to my friend's car, and refused to confirm that they were unhurt. The young driver wouldn't get out of the car or talk except to their father, and the father actually told my friend that they didn't need to exchange details as there were no injuries.

My friend called the police who then refused to attend the scene, and as yet have refused to get involved. My friend's car has been written off, and as she only has that or a 6 horse box and would have to walk 6 miles to catch a bus, she's a little bit stuck. The insurance have provided her with a corsa as a hire car until the claim is resolved, but in this weather even the 4x4's are struggling to get up the hills to her yard.

as far as the claim goes, the pictures she took on her phone, have been sufficient for the insurance company to track down the other driver (who allegedly hadn't reported it to their insurer), and the claim is now progressing.

my problem with this is that the police will turn out for 3 hounds in a garden, but not a car accident... something not right there!
 
Sounds about right!

Especially as hounds can not trespass! Glad your friend got pics.
 
typical - prob an unsured driver? did she get the registration number?? With hindsight she should prob have claimed she was injured even if only slightly then the police would have attended?
 
What a mess we are in policing wise!

Failing to give your insurance details is a criminal offence and your friend should make a complaint to the Police that the law was broken and get a crime number. At the very least the young man should be cautioned, but he should really get points on his licence (does he have one?).

Sadly, if they were in a single track road your insurers will probably agree "knock for knock" unless there are any independent witnesses. Passengers in the vehicle don't count. If it wasn't a single track road, your friend should insist that the police act on the offence of refusing to give insurance details and check whether the driver is insured at all. His behaviour is very suspicious, as is that of his parents.

Good luck!
 
Recently Harriet Harman hit someone while talking on her mobile phone. She was too busy to stop and just shouted 'I am Harriet Harman you know where to find me.' A clear breech of the law and a fine example of the disdain with which the ruling class hold us ordinary plebs.
 
Typical Plod!! Tell your friend to INSIST that Plod interview said "young driver".
Otherwise, if your friend knows where to find the driver (who could well live locally) - go and list the details of the vehicle - make, model, colour, registration number, etc:
Then ask Plod to check if said vehicle is, actually, insured.
I was stopped by Plod a few months ago, in a totally sound, taxed and insured car. Apparently, my vehicle was not listed on the National Database of Insured Cars.
Plod and I went straight to my IC and sorted it - apparently, an error on my IC's part. Don't let them get away with it.
 
jenhunt

a couple of things spring to mind.

Firstly Police attendance to incidents that are not urgent (ie life threatening) depend very much on the availability of officer at the time, so while in the first instance there may have been somebody just down the road, on the second occasion there may not have been.

To complicate things further, the Road Traffic Act requires a person to report an accident in person at a Police Station in person, unless so injured that they are unable to do so, so your friend should have attended a station within 24 hours to do this and could have reported the careless driving at the same time. I imagine she was told this? It is a little unclear from your post as to whether there was actually a collision of whether your friend damaged her vehicle by taking evasive action - in those circumstances it would be very difficult to attribute blame to the other driver.
 
To complicate things further, the Road Traffic Act requires a person to report an accident in person at a Police Station in person, unless so injured that they are unable to do so, so your friend should have attended a station within 24 hours to do this and could have reported the careless driving at the same time. I imagine she was told this? It is a little unclear from your post as to whether there was actually a collision of whether your friend damaged her vehicle by taking evasive action - in those circumstances it would be very difficult to attribute blame to the other driver.
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her car was hit by the other driver, and despite her evasive action, the whole front end on the drivers side was completely unrecognisable, and on the passenger side it's just body work damage from the hedge, and the passenger side wheel arch is mangled from the impact to the bank that she had to go up to try to get out of the way.

She was told to, and did, go to a police station, and her landlord used a tractor to move her car off the road. She has made a statement about the incident, but doesn't think the police are doing anything about it.
 
To get police attendance double quick ..just say you have a firearm and are about to shoot the offender.By golly they`ll get there to defend the miscraint very fast indeed.
 
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