Fail to stop, is it worth reporting

NotRichAtAll

at the end of the day you were driving our car and you made the decision to move over tpwards the kerb, resulting you damaging your alloy.
been a bus driver we are taught if there does not look to be enough room we stop and apply handbrake and let the other person figure it out.
i watched your video and to be honest i think no one is to blame except yourself for the damage, at 12 seconds into the vidoe you can see the van you are doing 20mph when you pass the van according to your dash cam your speed has increased to 23-24mph why did you not slow down as soon as you saw the van? or even stop.


i drive my bus along a country lane occassionally when i am on the 7 route and people come bombing along there and the last thing the expect to meet is a double decker scania coming towards them, i crawl along this road at 10-15mph in order to avoid someone driving like a fool and killing themselves. I also meet loads of people driving on the roads who have no idea how wide their car/van is and they panic, most roads i drive on are wide enough for 3 vehicles yet i see people actually mount the pavement because they think their is not enough room.

looks like the last thing you expected to meet was a white van coming towards you.

show the police that and they will tell you to go away and stop wasting there time.

henrygregory

NotRichAtAll wrote: »

show the police that and they will tell you to go away and stop wasting there time.

Exactly why I created the OP to establish if that was the case as I was so confused by why the officer I had spoken to was so insistent that I should report the other driver. Not sure who the people are they put on at the control rooms but he said that he had patrolled the area in question so he was either an officer or a PCSO.

Either way, I got my answer, and since then have been insulted and abused by other forum members, most of which have now been reported.

NotRichAtAll

henrygregory wrote: »

Exactly why I created the OP to establish if that was the case as I was so confused by why the officer I had spoken to was so insistent that I should report the other driver. Not sure who the people are they put on at the control rooms but he said that he had patrolled the area in question so he was either an officer or a PCSO.

Either way, I got my answer, and since then have been insulted and abused by other forum members, most of which have now been reported.

to be honest i think it's just one of those thing's the driver of the white van was doing the same as yourself, driving down a narrow lane too fast and neither of you had any intention of stopping, you bottled it before him and scuffed a wheel, use this as a learning curve.

NotRichAtAll

henrygregory wrote: »

Hi, this morning, I came across a van well on my side of the road, I tried to move as far over as I could for it and as a result have severely scuffed my alloy wheel. The driver of the van did not stop and when I turned around to have words, he had literally vanished.

I called the police to report it for insurance purposes and they have advised me to go to my local police station and report it as a fail to stop (even though he did not actually hit me), which I thought was a little strange. I explained that I had not really expected him to stop as he probably would not have known I had damaged my wheel.

Can anyone tell me if it is worth pursuing this? The alloy is going to need extensive refurbishment with just under half of the wheel very badly scuffed and I am almost certain this will have effected the tracking given the damage to the wheel. I don't think it is worth an insurance claim, but I can't believe I could pin the blame on someone even though they did not hit me.

Lucky for me, I have a dashcam which caught it, feel free to have a watch:

http://youtu.be/6YZch6QlHuo

i watched the video, and what i saw was......

a. no white middle line so no my side his side
b. i did not think he was as you say "well on your side"
c. he had no reason to stop, he had not been involved in an accident or collision nor had he hit anything.
d. at 11 seconds into your video you could of stopped and just waited for him to get past.

may i ask what were you driving?

janiebquick

jd87 wrote: »

OP's reaction in this thread is hilarious.

Agree. Best laugh I've had in a while.

gik

£20 wheel refurb. here:-


http://www.citypowdercoating.co.uk/

DCFC79

henrygregory wrote: »

Either way, I got my answer, and since then have been insulted and abused by other forum members, most of which have now been reported.

Insulted and abused by whom ?

I also saw the video and you could have stopped to let the van safely pass

henrygregory

gik wrote: »

£20 wheel refurb. here:-


http://www.citypowdercoating.co.uk/

thanks, really helpful I will give them a buzz.

henrygregory

NotRichAtAll wrote: »

to be honest i think it's just one of those thing's the driver of the white van was doing the same as yourself, driving down a narrow lane too fast and neither of you had any intention of stopping, you bottled it before him and scuffed a wheel, use this as a learning curve.

Agreed, thanks for your post and yes certainly a learning curve!