To think it was not an overreaction to call the police?

but it for them to decide and they clearly felt it was serious enough to send police there so don’t see why you know better than the police.

@ThriveIn2025 are you normally so dim?

I’m so sorry to hear this happened, I hope your daughter is ok
I think it was completely appropriate to phone 999 for a car injuring a person, and the fact that the dispatcher also said it was appropriate on the phone, plus the swift police response, backs that up. Since the other driver had also started to escalate, that added to the urgency of the situation. I think it was wrong of your husband to not stand up for his family, and then get angry at you for doing so!
Perhaps your husband has a belief that needs should never inconvenience others. I hope he reflects on this and apologises to you and your daughter

I think you overreacted. He didn't intentionally injure your child. Your child had her foot in the way of a moving car which was extremely dangerous, she should know better at 8.

Also a bit puzzled about what you needed his details for? Sounds like an accident.

Yes except you’ve just taken an emergency call slot from someone else with a genuine emergency resulting in in an ambulance being 30 secs late and someone dying. Because OPs daughter’s foot got a bit hurt.

A profligate use of police resources, as the force concerned subsequently admitted. Total overkill, I agree, although I think the parents were vexatious to the school and defaming the head teacher.

DH was involved in a hit and run one Friday night last year as a pedestrian. The car sped round the corner and knocked into him. He bounced off the windscreen onto the road and blacked out. I called 111 and we were told to go to the police station as they were short staffed. I refused as DD was cut and shaking. The following day, they sent one officer after intervention overnight by senior officers, who said they should have come to our house the previous evening. (The police were not able to find the b**tard driver.)

Presumably, resourcing ebbs and flows, but as the number of crimes going uninvestigated shows, policing is generally under-resourced.

I don’t think you overreacted at all. I’d also suggest you get DD medical treatment and consider a personal injury claim. Might make him a bit more careful in future and avoid something much worse happening.

I think I would be the same as the DH. It's not a fear of causing a fuss, but wanting to be given grace if I made a mistake. It wasn't a life threatening issue. Was there even any blood? Yes, it could have been bad, but there are plenty of close scrapes on the road all the time (someone didn't stop at a roundabout the other day and would have gone straight into me if I hadn't braked sharply. I didn't call the police).

It is entirely appropriate to call the police if a person, whether a pedestrian or someone in another car has been injured by a car. In fact it is the law that this should be done by the person causing the injury!
Can't say for certain what number you are supposed to use but if the 999 operator had not thought it was the right number they could have advised you what number to phone instead. The fact the police responded quickly does not suggest they thought that you were wasting police time or overreacting.
The other driver being dismissive of what he did and getting verbally aggressive was also bang out of order. If I'd hit anyone, most especially a child with my car I'd have been horrified and desperate to help.
I simply can't understand your DH's reaction - what is wrong with him? Someone has hurt his child, is flatly denying it and becoming verbally out of order with his wife . I'd be beyond pissed off at him and expecting a serious apology.

He wasn't abusive.

He began to give the OP his details the second she started speaking to the police.

From that moment on, there was no need for any police attendance.

Would you call 101 if someone was breaking into your home ? Of course you wouldn’t. The man was abusive when asked for his details. IMO he escalated it to a 999 call himself.

Because the OP clearly didn't tell them there was no need, as he was now giving her his details?

Likewise they can decide to not think emergency if you call 999

IMHO if someone is kicking off then its a 999 job

Just for your own protection if nothing else

Don’t disagree with any of that, but you still get police involvement by calling the non emergency number. It’s still for people breaking the law. They will assess it and escalate to 999 if need be. You and a lot of people on here seem to think 999 is for people breaking the law and the non emergency number is for anything else.

If she’d called the non emergency number the bloke would have been long gone by the time they arrived. He injured her child, became abusive when she asked for his details and tried to leave the scene of an accident. Seems a lot of fuss instead of him just giving his details and complying with the law. Who knows what he may have been trying to hide.

I to think you were right to call them. If he had stopped, been remorseful, apologised, made sure that your child was safe etc etc then I probably wouldn’t have bothered and thought it was an awful moments carelessness and inattention, but knowing he had injured a child and still going to drive off would make me think he was trying to hide something,, no licence, banned from driving, no insurance, cloned plates,over the limit, outstanding warrant or something . I would want to get him checked out too.

He did. He ran over the child’s heel. The heel is part of the foot.

why are you minimising this?

the is a man who didn’t take due care and attention when driving. He ran over a child’s foot. Rather than being horrified he denied he did anything wrong and was about to do a hit and run if the OP hadn’t called the police.

I don't see why you'd call the police unless it was deliberate.

Reads like the shit they do in the USA when they're trying to get a claim in.

Why would details be required. I mean he should have been apologetic and offer to go get a bandaid maybe but I wouldn't give some rando my details either. For all he knows you could be some vengeful psycho.

I can't phathom calling the police over something accidental. A minor one at that.

Pedantic much. If they didn’t consider it a police matter why did they turn up ?

The driver injured a child with his car because he wasn’t paying attention. That’s driving without due care and attention. He then attempted to leave the scene of an accident without giving his details. May not have been an emergency but it clearly warranted police involvement if he became abusive when OP asked for his details.

YABVU to call 999- complete overreaction

I wouldn’t have called 999 as I wouldn’t have viewed it as an emergency. I’d have taken a picture of him and the number plate and reported it to the police.
However, given that the police arrived within minutes, I assume I am wrong in my judgement and 999 is fine.