Car damaged in Car Park

LauraR123

Hi, I wonder if someone can give me some advice on an incident that happened yesterday afternoon in Morrisons car park, Chester. I parked my car in the car park and went to do my shopping, when I came out and loaded my shopping in the boot and man approached me who was parked opposite my car, he said his wife had just witnessed someone drive into the side of my car and then drive off and park elsewhere, she had got the vehicle registration number. I took down her details as a witness and approached the car park attendant who told me to report it to the manager, which I did. The security guard came to look at my car and said he would try and view CCTV footage - but to no avail.

I'm left with the registration number of the car who damaged mine and I don't know what to do. I have reported it to the police who have given me an incident number and I've also rang my insurance company who are going to call me back to take the details.

Any advice????

hewhoisnotintheknow

i would contact the police first of all and then your insurance

I would also buy a bottle of wine or at least a thankyou card to the person who took the time to approach you (i dont know if this could get you in trouble though)

did you see any damage to his car?

Quentin

LauraR123 wrote: »

I'm left with the registration number of the car who damaged mine and I don't know what to do. I have reported it to the police who have given me an incident number and I've also rang my insurance company who are going to call me back to take the details.

Any advice????

Just give them the details, they will be able to trace the third party's insurers (if they have any!).

Ask your insurer to let you know when they have traced them, so that you can pursue them for your uninsured losses (excess etc) as a result of the damage caused.

maninthestreet

Use the ASKMID website to check if the other car was insured.

duncan303

If it is any help, just give registration number to insurers, and give actual witness details to police. Do not contact further the witness.

I am a witness to a very similar kind of event, I am reasonably happy to go court, however I am concerned that the insurance company will not give me any data protection.

The police are concerned about my security but not the IP's insurance company.


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B33fy

Had a similar incident in a hotel car-park, witness gave me the reg.no of the car, police did not want to know as not on a public road (is this still the case) but suggested contacting the DVLA direct, I was suprised to receive the full address of the culprit, laid it on with witness being willing to go to court in a letter, got a cheque for the damage by return, now this was a few years ago and it may be more difficult nowadays but might be a possible way forward

duncan303

#B33fy


No in my situation this was also a supermarket car park. I have received post from both an Insurance company and the Local Constabulary.

Only the Local Contabulary have made the effort to include details of what is involved by me accepting to act in court as a witness.

To be honest the Insurance company wrote to me in what I perceived as a very arrogant manner, with what appears to be no interest whatsoever in my safety. I am not happy with them at all and decided to only correspond with the police.


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aliasojo

You're lucky you had a witness.....my son came back to his car (which was parked in Inverness Eastgate car park) to find a huge scratch on his car and a note under the windscreen wiper saying sorry. That's it, no details just the word sorry. SO IF THAT WAS ANY OF YOU, YOU'RE A TOTAL SWINE! (Sorry OP, just taking the opportunity to rant )

If there had been no note, he could perhaps have believed the person that had done it, just didn't realise ( I know, unlikely) but leaving a note proves they knew fine and left anyway.

He's only a young lad on apprentice wages so I hope whoever did it was worse off than him. What goes around comes around.

OP, hope you get this sorted out with as little hassle as possible.

cyclonebri1

duncan303 wrote: »

If it is any help, just give registration number to insurers, and give actual witness details to police. Do not contact further the witness.

I am a witness to a very similar kind of event, I am reasonably happy to go court, however I am concerned that the insurance company will not give me any data protection.

The police are concerned about my security but not the IP's insurance company.


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Duncan, what a strange post???
Not a !!!!! hitman chasing a witness, simply your viewing an accident.

Why would you only be "reasonably happy" and "concerned about protection" ???

Methinks the worlds gone made and genuine folks have lost their bottle

johnfarquhar74

aliasojo wrote: »

You're lucky you had a witness.....my son came back to his car (which was parked in Inverness Eastgate car park) to find a huge scratch on his car and a note under the windscreen wiper saying sorry. That's it, no details just the word sorry. .

A few months back I heard a crunching noise, a young lad reversing out a parking bay, ran the front of his car down the side of another parked car. I watched in amusement as he eventually got his car out, with more scraping, he then left his car idling whilst he found paper & pen and proceeded to leave a note under the damaged cars windscreen.
I waited until he had gone for a few minutes before I left my office desk and had a look at the note, the cheeky beggar wrote something along the lines of "People watching think I'm leaving my details, I'm not, I'm writing this note!". The driver of the 2nd car wasn't best pleased to say the least, that was until I pointed out 2 discreet cctv cameras and a brief explanation/description of what happened/when/and by whom(registration mark).
Young lad wasn't the only one with a bit pen & paper.
I don't know what happened after but I certainly hope the police were informed of the original note.

DaveMacD

^ Nice one