Should i report this?

sinbad182

Strider590 wrote: »

The actual situation being whether to report this or not?

What if reporting it eventually leads to this driver handing in her car keys? or to her family taking some responsibility and doing it for her?

It could save a life.......

You've compared two wildly different scenarios and assumed that the decision to report them would be the same just because they both involve a car.

It's the kind of laughable self righteousness that these forums are famous for!

I once reversed into a lamp post when I was young, the lamp post was undamaged so I just drove off - BUT WHAT IF AN OLD LADY PUSHING A PRAM WITH A FLUFFY PUPPY HAD BEEN THERE :rotfl:

arcon5

Strider590 wrote: »

Let's think about this differently.......

If there had been a toddler walking between the cars, she would have killed him/her.
People like this need to be reported and removed from the roads.......

We're far too tolerant of elderly drivers in this country.

Ignorning the fact parents should be controlling toddlers in busy supermarket car parks, what a ridiculous comment. Based on this logic anybody involved in an accident should have their license revoked - lets ignore the fact as human beings we all make mistakes and can learn from them and this didn't result in a fatality.
So although the driver should have left her details, lets not completely blow this out of proportion.

Oh, and how have you concluded its down solely to the drivers age? Old, young and middle aged drivers alike can make errors.
Some of us are quick to bash the elderly drivers, but lets face it, if they was as a group some of the highest risks on the road then why are they also benefitting from some of the lowest premiums about?!! Insurance companies love money so would happily up the price if they though the risk was significantly more than a younger person

Rolandtheroadie

Striders got an issue with old ladys, he drove into the side of one a while back, when he'd thought a parked car was waiting in a queue of traffic. Pulled out again without looking and bang, poor old lady sideswiped. Thank god there wasnt a child on a bike filtering between them, or it would have been a gonner.

That aside, a few months ago I witnessed a van hitting a parked car in a supermarket and the driver went off, done his shopping then drove off.
I took pictures whilst he was in the store, and reported it a couple of days later (wasnt sure whether I should or not either).

Couple of months later the police called to say they'd got the guy and he'd admitted everything. The owner wanted them to pass on their thanks to me as they had originally thought it had just been vandalism.

GwylimT

I would report it, light clips in cars are very easily broken and a small shunt causing no damage to the body work can easily break them, I once hit my wheelie bin at under 5 miles an hour going into my drive way and broke all of the clips on my passenger headlight, £80 to get a new one luckily I could fit it myself otherwise the price would have been double.