Scraped car in car park and can't trace owner

Mojisola

Backpacker87 wrote: »

I scraped another car whilst parking at my local gym. Upon checking it looked as though I had left a small black scratch on their car.

I immediately took note of the vehicle registration and asked the gym to do a tannoy announcement to the owner of the car. But no one answered the tannoy message. I have left my details with the gym reception in case the owner did come forward.

Why didn't you leave a note under the windscreen, explaining what had happened and giving a contact phone number?

Spicy_McHaggis

EssexExile wrote: »

Thank you Quentin, having read that I now know I was right.

Can you show us were reporting it to the gym complies with the road traffic act?

Just so you can be sure you're right.

andy111

Mojisola wrote: »

Why didn't you leave a note under the windscreen, explaining what had happened and giving a contact phone number?

It would have seemed the most logical and usual.

EssexExile

As Quentin kindly linked to the act you can all make your own minds up.
As a wise man once said, if you ask three lawyers for a legal opinion you'll get four different answers.

Spicy_McHaggis

EssexExile wrote: »

As Quentin kindly linked to the act you can all make your own minds up.
As a wise man once said, if you ask three lawyers for a legal opinion you'll get four different answers.

Yeah, you're wrong.

Quentin

EssexExile wrote: »

As Quentin kindly linked to the act you can all make your own minds up.

The act says you must report an incident to the police if you cause damage to another person's property and were unable to/didn't exchange details at the scene.


Not to do so is an offence.


But you know that, and cannot bring yourself to stand corrected, despite being given chapter and verse!

EssexExile

Quentin wrote: »

The act says you must report an incident to the police if you cause damage to another person's property and were unable to/didn't exchange details at the scene.

The act:

The driver of the [F1mechanically propelled vehicle] must stop and, if required to do so by any person having reasonable grounds for so requiring, give his name and address and also the name and address of the owner and the identification marks of the vehicle.

It doesn't say who that person must be, the proprietor of the car park will do.
This is how solicitors make their living, arguing about things like this.
It's not how I make my living so I will stop now.

Spicy_McHaggis

EssexExile wrote: »

The act:It doesn't say who that person must be, the proprietor of the car park will do.
This is how solicitors make their living, arguing about things like this.
It's not how I make my living so I will stop now.

The other driver has reasonable grounds to have the details, he hasn't got them so offence complete and only a tool would argue otherwise.

Quentin

EssexExile wrote: »

The act:It doesn't say who that person must be, the proprietor of the car park will do.
This is how solicitors make their living, arguing about things like this.
It's not how I make my living so I will stop now.

Once again you just post a selective extract from the Act

I gave you the link to the very section of the Act.


Where it says this regarding where to report to:

The driver must do so at a police station or to a constable

To come here and now offer your laughable suggestion that reporting to "the proprietor of the car park will do" is just dangerous nonsense which it seems you are happy to post here rather than manning up and standing corrected.

Backpacker872

Thanks all for your advice.

Thought it may help to solve the argument about whether this does/does not need reporting to the police.

So I decided to go to the police station and report this. My thought was, if in doubt it's best to go and report it just in case. Turned up this morning and the woman practically laughed me out of the station and told me this wasn't anything for them to deal with. Didn't take my details or anything.
So I guess this answers this!