SORTED - Supermarket scrape - what will happen next?

Crabman

He is exceptionally lucky they 'decided not to take any further action', for whatever reason. Where they have evidence and an admission they typically let the courts decide.

Hopefully this has reminded your nephew about the rules of the road but more importantly the basic manners and respect for others' property that his parents undoubtedly taught him.

TrickyWicky

Thats incredibly lucky but be sure to tell the nephew that isn't normally the outcome.

apesxx

it is thankful that the owners of the car had witnesses. i wasnt so lucky when mine got done, 3 times to be exact and on the same back passenger wheel arch. it is incredibly selfish that your nephew thought that one more scratch wouldnt make any difference. the first time mine was scraped was 3 weeks after i bought it and paid £4,500 for it and i couldnt afford to have the scratches taken out and a claim on the insurance would have cost me dearly (and the barstewards knew they had done it coz they had rubbed at the scratch) thankfully i didnt pay to get them removed as it got hit again 6 months later and then on NYE it was written off in a hit and run over night and i dont have a witness so i am left with a hefty premium coming up (insurance due in 3 weeks) coz of a selfish idiot like your nephew!

lilac_lady

I scraped another car in a supermarket car park, not badly, but it was my fault. I called over a member of staff who was collecting trolleys and asked him if he could get a tannoy message put over in the store as I had scraped the car next to me,

The driver appeared a few minutes later and was so nuce to me as I hadn't just driven off. His car was 4 months old. I felt so bad for scraping it (no dents). He said that he didn't mind if I put it through my insurance or paid for it myself.

I did pay for it myself (ouch) after he got 3 estimates. I couldn't have driven off. Karma.

manglesey25

this happened on a supermarket car park? that is private land, not a public highway.

No motoring crime has been committed.

pendulum

manglesey25 wrote: »

this happened on a supermarket car park? that is private land, not a public highway.

No motoring crime has been committed.

Fail, and a very late one at that.

Happychappy

manglesey25 wrote: »

this happened on a supermarket car park? that is private land, not a public highway.

No motoring crime has been committed.

Bit like your previous about a company issuing a parking invoice ticket, so that equals fraud, so why don't the police arrest the issuers, etc ? your posts have a similar theme, I think you need to get back to the bar room for more in depth research

TrickyWicky

manglesey25 wrote: »

this happened on a supermarket car park? that is private land, not a public highway.

No motoring crime has been committed.

In motoring terms if its a publicly accessible place then its covered by the same rules and yes you need insurance too.

The same applies for unregistered vehicles that are on private land that the public can access via public footpaths etc - registered or not the vehicles must have insurance.

Russ66

wazza wrote: »

Sorted now. Police came to interview nephew. He admitted that he hit the car. Police decided not to take any further action. They told him that the other party is making a claim through their insurance. So my dear nephew is looking forward a heafty premium increase next year.

If the damage is as minor as you say would your nephew not be better off paying for the repair out of his own pocket or offering the other driver a token gesture to avoid going through the insurance? :think:

TrickyWicky

It gets better guys, now the nephew has had someone smack his car up and the other person is refusing to supply details!

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