Hit & Run Parked Car Rights

neilmcl

kev25v6 wrote: »

Just tell your insurers the reg number of the car that has hit you and let them defend the claim instead.

Without any evidence or witnesses I very much doubt his insurer will do anything.

[Deleted User]

neilmcl wrote: »

Without any evidence or witnesses I very much doubt his insurer will do anything.

Exactly.
The story you tell your insurer that you can back to your car and it had damage on matching the other car will be exactly the same story he tells his insurer.

stator

Have you reported it to the police?

Secondly, is the actual damage to your car visible from the CCTV camera? Or is the damage to the other car visible from the CCTV camera?

If either of these is true, then it wouldn't be necessary to sit through 3 weeks of CCTV footage, you could simple use the 'binary chop' method.
You view the footage in the middle of the period, see if the damage is there. If it's not then you move to a point between the middle and the end. If it is, then you move to a point between the beginning and the middle. Using this method you can find the exact time of the collision in minutes. If the council refuse to do this, then put in a request for CCTV Stills once per day for the entire period. Find the day the damage appeared, then put in a request for a CCTV still from every hour of that day. Then put in a request for that hour of footage.
If you can't see the new damage to either vehicle from the camera vantage point, then obviously it can't be used.

Aylesbury_Duck

stator wrote: »

Have you reported it to the police?

Secondly, is the actual damage to your car visible from the CCTV camera? Or is the damage to the other car visible from the CCTV camera?

If either of these is true, then it wouldn't be necessary to sit through 3 weeks of CCTV footage, you could simple use the 'binary chop' method.
You view the footage in the middle of the period, see if the damage is there. If it's not then you move to a point between the middle and the end. If it is, then you move to a point between the beginning and the middle. Using this method you can find the exact time of the collision in minutes. If the council refuse to do this, then put in a request for CCTV Stills once per day for the entire period. Find the day the damage appeared, then put in a request for a CCTV still from every hour of that day. Then put in a request for that hour of footage.
If you can't see the new damage to either vehicle from the camera vantage point, then obviously it can't be used.

Thank goodness for some common sense. I did wonder why some people were saying someone would have to sit through days of sped-up footage.

unforeseen

stator wrote: »

Have you reported it to the police?

Secondly, is the actual damage to your car visible from the CCTV camera? Or is the damage to the other car visible from the CCTV camera?

If either of these is true, then it wouldn't be necessary to sit through 3 weeks of CCTV footage, you could simple use the 'binary chop' method.
You view the footage in the middle of the period, see if the damage is there. If it's not then you move to a point between the middle and the end. If it is, then you move to a point between the beginning and the middle. Using this method you can find the exact time of the collision in minutes. If the council refuse to do this, then put in a request for CCTV Stills once per day for the entire period. Find the day the damage appeared, then put in a request for a CCTV still from every hour of that day. Then put in a request for that hour of footage.
If you can't see the new damage to either vehicle from the camera vantage point, then obviously it can't be used.

it wouldn't be the OP looking at the video, they would not be allowed to sift through it.
The council will want full details and they would search it whichever way they decide and bill you accordingly.

Your chances of trying to claim 15 hours of council employee time, for example, either through your insurance or via small claims from the culprit would, I imagine, be rather slim.

maisie_cat

In the absence of a confirmation from the owner of the other car perhaps photographs of both cars with matching damage will suffice. As there is paint transfer would it be worth getting a forensic report to confirm that the paint is the same?
Perhaps I watch too much NCIS/CSI

stator

unforeseen wrote: »

it wouldn't be the OP looking at the video, they would not be allowed to sift through it.
The council will want full details and they would search it whichever way they decide and bill you accordingly.

Your chances of trying to claim 15 hours of council employee time, for example, either through your insurance or via small claims from the culprit would, I imagine, be rather slim.

I know, but the council aren't very imaginative on their own. If you point out what can be done specifically, they might be helpful.
If they fail to help at all then you can contact your councillors and they can try and prod the council bureaucrats into the direction of common sense.

AndyMc.....

maisie_cat wrote: »

In the absence of a confirmation from the owner of the other car perhaps photographs of both cars with matching damage will suffice. As there is paint transfer would it be worth getting a forensic report to confirm that the paint is the same?
Perhaps I watch too much NCIS/CSI

And who’s going do do the forensic examination? The police won’t do it for a damage only accident.

Car_54

See post #4 above.

The OP would feel very silly if he spent a lot of time money and effort on this futile quest, only to discover that the guilty party freely admitted responsibility.