Parking Related Incident

PeterCash

Folks,

Would you please let me know what you would do (I am a bit wound up and want to take this further but I don't know if I'm just taking it personally!)?

Today at 7:00 am I parked my car on street (which I do every weekday) and started to read a book (as I can't get into work to 7:30am). At around 7:15 another vehicle attempts to park in a "space" in front of me (a small smart car would have struggled to get in to the space - I have a photo). After around 2 minutes of fruitless parking attempts she turns her car around and attempts to get in the same space from the other direction. Needless to say she hits the front of my car and immediately drives off :mad:. I watched the entire fiasco and there was no way she would ever have got into the space.

I have her make/model/reg and was just wondering if anyone reading this would take it further. I don't know if my car is damaged (as it was dark and my car was quite dirty) but the fact is she knew I was in the car and didn't even bother to come and say sorry.

I would like to hear any of your points of view. I would like to re-iterate that if my car is not damaged I would be content with an apology!!
Thanks for your time.

Sorry f this was a bit long winded!!

Pete

Bowling_4_Gold

To be honest, I wouldn't take it further. I mean, if your car isn't damaged, there isn't really a huge problem. Maybe if you see her again, mention it to her. It's not that rare to use other cars as bumpers to get into a space, I once stood at a window at work and watched a poor old disabled driver trying to get into a space - he hit the cars around him about 5 or 6 times

hewhoisnotintheknow

i would be !!!!ed off and want to persue it, but if there was no damage i would try to drop it! Just out of interest could you have moved back a bit to help at all?

PeterCash

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

i would be !!!!ed off and want to persue it, but if there was no damage i would try to drop it! Just out of interest could you have moved back a bit to help at all?

Diffinatley not!! If I had moved back I would have been too close to the car behind. They wouldn't have been able to get out of there space and I would have been hit to the rear as well!

I know I will end up dropping it but it's just infuriating to know that she seen me sitting there and still didn't stop and apologise.

Mark_Hewitt

Even if there is no damage she has committed a serious offence in failing to stop at the scene of an accident. It's a police matter.

Inactive

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

Even if there is no damage she has committed a serious offence in failing to stop at the scene of an accident. It's a police matter.

Indeed, she should have stopped and given you her insurance and address details.

DrScotsman

What the above two said.

If there is damage then you definitely report it to the police.

If there isn't damage then it's up to you - it won't be beneficial to you in any way, but I guess technically she has committed a criminal offence...although if no damage is done is it technically an "accident"?

custardy

i would report it regardless
the other driver never cared if they had damaged the other car.
maybe a visit from the police will give them a wake up

pir

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

Even if there is no damage she has committed a serious offence in failing to stop at the scene of an accident. It's a police matter.

Totally agree. Report it.

pir

Also how did she know there was no damage? She could have caused damage and she just drove off. If she got out and checked their was no damage that's different. Not even checking deserves a call from the police.

Lord_Blue

If there is no damage, put it down to experience. Life is too short.

If there is damage, call your insurance company and provide her details. They will claim from her insurance (if she has it!)