I nailed a hit and run driver...I Hope.

[Mark Healey]

I bought some books from a trailer trash type woman today. We'll call her M.

Fast foward an hour or so.

One of our regular scouts and I are standing in front of the store enjoying some smokey treats and M who is parked on the street right in front of the store gets in her SUV, starts it up, and backs into a motorcycle, knocking it down. It was a Ducati. She asks for a piece of paper and pen to write a note. She leaves a note on the bike and leaves. Knowing what type of person she is I note her plate number, figuring she'll leave false info.

Fast foward maybe half an hour.

The owner of the bike comes in telling me that the phone number she gave was no good. That's a surprise. I give him the license plate number.

That's not the best part.

Flashback to when I bought books from her. When we do so we get their license and fill out a form with their name, address and DL number. I gave that information to him.

I hope she gets nailed.

[csdrone]

That poor poor Ducati!

[Sonoma]

Good job. I was in Blockbuster's parking lot a few years back, when I saw a large SUV back into a pickup that a friend owned. I got the license & description (since the guy just drove off after glancing around to see if anyone had noticed), then went in the store to find my friend. Didn't see him inside, and have since found out he had sold the truck. I left a note w/ the description of the vehicle that hit it, along with a description of the driver, and the license plate of the SUV. Hope the SUV driver got nailed.

[Reyneth]

Since starting work at CarInsuranceCompany 2.5 months ago, I've been at the number of hit-and-run claims I've seen. Granted, I am dealing a lot with uninsured motorist claims so they have a little more motivation to get out of there but it can be as many as 1-3 a day!

I always love it when they call us (to see why 'we scammin them money!') and we inform them that not only did our driver get their plate info, but so did 2 other witnesses including an off-duty cop! Yes, that happened. She still argued and got sent to collections - but only after the request to suspend her driver's license went to the state.

Seriously people, it's NOT worth a hit-and-run.

[EmiOfBrie]

I was a hit & run victim in 1991 at a rural Burger King in Liberty, NY

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses. The BK had music piped in and no one heard the crash. When I went outside after eating, I noticed. There was a huge dent under my rear driver-side window and truck tracks backing up to my car and driving off

Luckily I was still able to drive my car the 6 hours back home and get it repaired. Cost to repair was just under $1000

[Pedersen]

My personal best is the only time I've been in an accident that involved insurance (some smaller fender dent types when I was a teen). One year ago, almost to the day.

She hit me. I was sitting at an intersection, trying to merge onto Rt 22 in Springfield, NJ. I was 3 cars back from the road. She didn't pay attention, and took the turn off of 22 way too fast. As soon as I saw her, I knew I was about to be hit, and had no chance to do anything but curse.

She came over an island, and hit me. My vehicle was marginally drivable, but I had a piece of my bumper scraping my tire. I couldn't drive it for my hour long commute home.

Called the cops, took her insurance info, called my company, who told me to call hers to avoid paying my deductible (she admitted her fault, the cop wrote it as her fault, it was so beyond being exclusively her fault that it wasn't even funny).

So, call her company I did, to report the claim. Took them a week to finally tell me: The card she presented wasn't a valid insurance card. The first character of the fricking insurance policy was enough to tell them so. Had they told me this on the phone when I spoke to them at the scene, I could have had her arrested right then and there for presenting fraudulent insurance information to the officer, driving without insurance, and probably a few others.

So, since her whole info was fraudulent, I got shafted paying my deductible. If I ever see her again, I am so going to tackle her, and demand my money back. Miserable bitch.

[solemnwarning]

Went fast enough to go over an island and crash?

Stupid stupid stupid....

[Polenicus]

This didn't happen to me, but a friend.

He had JUST bought this car, one of those little Toyota SUV's. He was proud of himself, because he had paid for more than half of it up front, had gotten a great insurance rate, and the thing was really nifty to drive.

Well, he was in a parking lot, about to back up out of a stall. There was a car coming some rows down, but there was a stop sign in between him and my friend, so my friend felt safe backing out. He started to back out, and was about halfway out when he realized that the other car was A) Going WAY too fast, and B) Not stopping at the stop sign.

The other car plowed into the back of him, hitting my friend's car hard enough to push it into the car baside him. We estimate around 70 km/h, but regardless he was doing way over the posted limit of the parking lot, and we have numerous witnesses, as well as the mechanic who worked on all three cars, who can see the guy was going fast just from the damage. Turns out the guy was talking on his cell phone and not paying attention to what he was doing.

The kicker? Because the lot was private property, the stop sign is not enforceable, and a whole different set of rules apply, which say since my friend was backing out into a lane of traffic, he was wholly responsible for the accident, and his insurance had to pay. He was not only dinged for his deductible, but his insurance rates went way up.

[Geek King]

I left a note w/ the description of the vehicle that hit it, along with a description of the driver, and the license plate of the SUV. Hope the SUV driver got nailed.

Thank you for doing that. I wish more people like you lived where I do now. Since moving in to my new apartment a year ago, I have been the victim of hit-and-run twice. Once at the mall where someone appears to have pulled into the slot way to fast and took out my grill and entire driver's side front light system. The other put a good sized dent on the bed of my pickup, just behind the wheel well. Not too worried about fixing the dent, as I drive my vehicle for utility anyway (many friends with couches ), but the light took $1200 to fix due to bending the mounting up under the hood. In both cases, no one said anything if they saw it, and the drivers took off.

[draftermatt]

Last July we bought a new truck as an early wedding present for ourselves.

THE DAY BEFORE OUR WEDDING

I was running errands as she was. I was in the new truck so I could wash and wax it. Walked out of a store, and there was a huge black mark on the fender, and paint scraped off of the bumper.

Someone hit it, didn't leave a note. And we got to drive home from the reception with our cans and streamers with no paint on one side of the bumper. And drive around our honeymoon the same way.

The truck still had temp tags on it.

[Talon]

Pederson didn't you get the beyotch's license plate #? I'm sure the cops could've tracked her down with that, and be very interested in her carrying fraudulent insurance info.

[Pedersen]

Got her license plate, vin number, etc. All of which claimed she was from Rhode Island. And she hit me in New Jersey.

Cops seem about as able to do anything about it as I am.

[Talon]

Ouch. Maybe she was driving a stolen car? Either way that really sucks. May a dung-covered goat simultaneously defficate in the backseat of her car, eat the contents of her purse, and marry into her family all on a monday morning. And may the rest of her week go downhill from there

[Pedersen]

Thanks I've been hoping it would be a new, heretofore undiscovered, non-lethal but infinitely painful form of venereal disease caused by the fleas of a thousand camels infesting her nether regions for several weeks on end. Since I haven't seen it on the news yet, I have to think it hasn't happened

[Banrion]

Got her license plate, vin number, etc. All of which claimed she was from Rhode Island. And she hit me in New Jersey.

Cops seem about as able to do anything about it as I am.

Ahhh. There's the problem. New Jersey, like Mass., is a non-reciprocal state. This means that they refuse to release information about their drivers to other states, this causes other states to in turn refuse to give NJ any info. Not a whole lot of people know this, but those that do could easily give false info with no repercussion, because the troopers on scene can't verify anything, they can simply record the info given to them.