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Mum hit by car at petrol station

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  • hubb
    hubb Posts: 2,501 Forumite
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    No, she won't go as she is fine. I can't physically pick her up and make her.
  • miduck
    miduck Posts: 1,800 Forumite
    hubb wrote: »
    No, she won't go as she is fine. I can't physically pick her up and make her.

    Yet you can cause all this fuss by ringing the police? It sounds like you should listen to your mother - give her some peace and let it go.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    miduck wrote: »
    Yet you can cause all this fuss by ringing the police? It sounds like you should listen to your mother - give her some peace and let it go.
    Have to agree.
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    hubb wrote: »
    No, she won't go as she is fine. I can't physically pick her up and make her.
    Your 67 year old mother is a very lucky woman if she was hit by a speeding car, knocked up in the air and is fine.
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Errata wrote: »
    Your 67 year old mother is a very lucky woman if she was hit by a speeding car, knocked up in the air and is fine.
    I wouldn't call it lucky to get hit by a car.
    Where does the speeding accusation come from?
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Think they have better things to do.
    So far there is nobody hurt apart from a bit of a bruise and virtually no chance of a conviction.

    I think you will find that the police find the knocking over a person to be very serious indeed.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    hubb wrote: »
    We could be attending a funeral this week if things went another way but thank God it didn't.

    People like this remind me why I like to spend less time around people and more alone working from home self employed. I have had my fill of people over the last 20 years. And for your interest I am not a she.

    The police didn't turn up to my mother's yesterday or today as they said.

    Also, the guy was in shock that he did this and being human (which I am sure he is) he showed emotion BUT he was still eager to get away. He even offered to pay my Mum's petrol. I would like to think he is an honorable person who made a forgivable mistake but it is always best to call the police when there is an accident or am I wrong ? IF he is innocent he has nothing to worry about. Just a pure accident.

    Sounds like a guilty conscience to me.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Completely wrong. Negligence or intent would need to be PROVEN before any conviction. Just because a car comes into contact with a pedestrian, there is legally no assumption of blame or fault.

    It hasn't stopped you from making assumptions of blame.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    goater78 wrote: »
    It's not urgent though is it. I would suggest the weekend before Xmas they are very busy.

    It's also not the polices job to make sure she is ok. If she is not ok she should go to the hospital or doctor.

    It is, however, the police's job to investigate the collision. Maybe if the OP's mother called to say that she had been called "an effing pleb," she would have thirty officers camped on her doorstep for the next three weeks.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    miduck wrote: »
    Yet you can cause all this fuss by ringing the police? It sounds like you should listen to your mother - give her some peace and let it go.

    The OP didn't call the police; please keep up.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
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