Car damaged in Car Park

BritRael

I had a similar incident in a local DIY store. Witnesses worked in the store. I contacted police who weren't interested as not on a public highway. Gave details to insurance company to sort. The other drivers insurance company wrote and offered 50/50!! I declined (as I wasn't actually in the car at the time ), and a little later they accepted 100%.

Good luck.

cyclonebri1

johnfarquhar74 wrote: »

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.

Come on :rotfl:, I heard that one 20 years ago, :rolleyes:

economiser

B33fy wrote: »

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

Some time ago I had a visit from the police as someone had complained that I had reversed into their car in a builders' merchant's car park. It was a mistake and I could prove I was elsewhere at the time but the police did follow it up despite being on private property.

LauraR123

Hi

I have spoken to the police and they aren 't really that interested as it happened in a private car park, but have said they will get an officer to call me back - I won't hold my breath. Have today finally managed to speak to my insurance company who have taken all the details and are going to write to the other insurance company and the witness (at least he/she was insured), so I'm hoping that will be enough to frighten them into admitting they did the damage. Will keep you posted.

It just seems so wrong that the police won't get involved, I bet they would if I'd been run over in a private car park.

Thanks for all the responses so far.

johnfarquhar74

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Come on :rotfl:, I heard that one 20 years ago, :rolleyes:

Not from me you didn't, it may sound like an urban myth but I assure you this happened in New St car park, Edinburgh, back in September.
As an aside, I found out over the weekend that the driver of the damaged car was a train driver and reported the damage to the British Transport Police (as the car park services Waverley Station). The driver that caused the damage was traced and apparently paid cash to have the damage repaired so all's well that ends well!

hethmar

I had a woman reverse into me in a carpark. She was about to leave the full car park when she saw someone about to leave a bay and without even checking her mirror she reversed back fast into me. Nothing I could do. She got out apologising profusely - I took her reg no. and she said she would contact me on my phone number to sort it out.

She never rang - after a few days I gave up as she never returned any calls and then her phone was actually cut off!

I took her name, phone number and reg no. to the police. I also gave it to my insurers. They got her address and she at first denied reversing into me, said that Id hit her in the rear! Luckily the chap behind me in the car park had come over to see if I was ok and he gave me his name and address as a witness. My little car was a write off but I got £500 which I used to get second hand stuff to fix it up for another year before it was scrapped.

cyclonebri1

johnfarquhar74 wrote: »

Not from me you didn't, it may sound like an urban myth but I assure you this happened in New St car park, Edinburgh, back in September.
As an aside, I found out over the weekend that the driver of the damaged car was a train driver and reported the damage to the British Transport Police (as the car park services Waverley Station). The driver that caused the damage was traced and apparently paid cash to have the damage repaired so all's well that ends well!

John it's an age old story, went something like this;

I'm leaving you this note. I've just run into your car. People are watching. They think I'm leaving my insurance details, more the fools them, have a nice day:p:p:p

missile

duncan303 wrote: »

#B33fy

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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Last Christmas, we spotted a burglar trying car doors in our street and phoned the police. They came very quickly and apprehended him. They came and took statements and told us he is "well known" to the police. We were asked if we could identify him and if we were prepared to go to court. We got a summons from the procurator fiscal. We were shocked at the tone, "you are summoned to appear ..... if you do not appear a warrant will be issued for your arrest ....." No please / thankyou etc. Only then did we realise that we would have to cancel our holiday to attend and the accused would be given our name and address :eek:

Thankfully he pled guilty and we did not have to attend. :j

Our neighbours had all their christmas presents hidden from their kids in the car. They did not even thanks us :mad:

If the same happens this year, I am not sure if I would be the good samaritan.

cyclonebri1

State of the world mate????????

hewhoisnotintheknow

missile wrote: »

Last Christmas, we spotted a burglar trying car doors in our street and phoned the police. They came very quickly and apprehended him. They came and took statements and told us he is "well known" to the police. We were asked if we could identify him and if we were prepared to go to court. We got a summons from the procurator fiscal. We were shocked at the tone, "you are summoned to appear ..... if you do not appear a warrant will be issued for your arrest ....." No please / thankyou etc. Only then did we realise that we would have to cancel our holiday to attend and the accused would be given our name and address :eek:

Thankfully he pled guilty and we did not have to attend. :j

Our neighbours had all their christmas presents hidden from their kids in the car. They did not even thanks us :mad:

If the same happens this year, I am not sure if I would be the good samaritan.

next time either call the police and say you wouldn't recognise him, or just open the window without him noticing and shout oi, will run off elsewhere!