Advice about a very minor bump I witnessed

mame · 16 Dec 2012 at 18:06

This is just to try and help someone else really.

A couple of weeks ago I was in a stationary line of traffic at a busy junction and was right outside a small shop with a car park. I saw someone get in their car, reverse into another car twice. Then he got out he see what damage he had done, then he got back in and drove off. He had dented the driver door and snapped the mirror as he pretty much hit it square-on. I called into the shop a few minutes later and gave my details plus the registration details of the car. Since then, the details were passed to the police, the police went to visit the driver and the driver admitted it. You would think that would be it but the police won't release the driver's details and the victim's insurance won't seem to budge on doing pretty much nothing untill they have those details.

Just wondering if anyone here has experience of anything similar.

PMKeates · 16 Dec 2012 at 18:07

Has the insurance company asked the police for the details?

Bear · 16 Dec 2012 at 19:45

If I recall the police will release the report but it will have to be paid for at a cost of £80 and normally that is paid for by the insurance company although the individual can pay for it as well.

I went through that nonsense when someone hit and run my old Nissan

Iamzod · 17 Dec 2012 at 00:00

Bear said:
If I recall the police will release the report but it will have to be paid for at a cost of £80 and normally that is paid for by the insurance company although the individual can pay for it as well.

I went through that nonsense when someone hit and run my old Nissan

They charge to release the info? That's pathetic!

Haggisman · 17 Dec 2012 at 09:08

Cant you contact the victim's insurance and give them the reg directly and they can pursue it from there?

mame · 17 Dec 2012 at 09:39

I'm not 100% sure if the inurance have contacted the police but they have been given the crime reference number but don't seem interested in that side of things. They just want the driver's name and address handed to them. someone had suggested to them that they can pay £90 to DVLA to get the driver's details but I'm thinking that if the police say that they can't pass them on, the DVLA will make the same decision. It must be a fairly common situation, especially with the amount of CCTV these days.

mame · 17 Dec 2012 at 09:40

Haggisman said:
Cant you contact the victim's insurance and give them the reg directly and they can pursue it from there?

I'm only a 3rd party (no pun) in this. I won't be contacting anyone. I was just curious to see if others have had similar things happen and the outcome.

edit: that's a slight lie, their insurance company have sent me the usual witness form that I am about to fill in so I will put the reg on it. The driver has already admitted that he did it so you would think that side of things was covered

wasc · 17 Dec 2012 at 12:46

mame said:
I'm not 100% sure if the inurance have contacted the police but they have been given the crime reference number but don't seem interested in that side of things. They just want the driver's name and address handed to them. someone had suggested to them that they can pay £90 to DVLA to get the driver's details but I'm thinking that if the police say that they can't pass them on, the DVLA will make the same decision. It must be a fairly common situation, especially with the amount of CCTV these days.

You don't need the drivers details as far as I know. If you go to www.askmid.com and pay £4, they will give you the name of the drivers insurance company. You then call them and make a claim direct against the drivers insurance.