Wwyd - hit car in car park

[ChablisLover]

Hypothetical - well kind of.

I was hit in a car park and have been left with a ding in drivers door which will cost £60 to fix.

Surely they would have realised that they hit the door.

Do some people not care?

Can understand it if there was no damage but if the car was damaged surely you would do something?

It's worth checking to see if the carpark has CCTV.

oh your so nice.

I would totally do a runner

Same thing happened to me about a month ago except they took half the back of the car out. There is no way on earth they didn't feel the collision/hear the noise but it didn't stop them driving off. Shop has CCTV but the shop said it only covered the doors and not the car park itself which is bloody helpful.

All I got from the shop in question was a very snotty email telling me that there was no way they were taking responsibility for the accident and not to consider taking out any claims against them. All I asked was if we or the police could have access to the footage. Gits.

I hit a parked car in a cinema car-park, there was no CCTV and no witnesses. I left my details and apologised and paid-up when contacted. I'm glad I did as otherwise would have felt awful. Going off to polish my halo now...

sometimes the CCTV in car parks is v soubtle and the more soubtle kind are sometimes the best, the one where I work discretely photographs each car reg and driver on entry and leaving - its worth contacting them and asking, I'ld expect it from any car park I had to pay for!

and to answer, I have done it and left a note BUT photographed the damage so I wasn't conned for more than I had actually done, then phoned my insurance to let them know so if a claim was ever opened in the future (say the driver did big damage a couple of weeks later and wanted to blame me) they couldnt exaggerate the damage I had done

so I am nice, but suspicious with it!

p.s. I was never contacted

and when a friend did a fair dent in my neighbours car and we knocked on his door and told him and gave her details, he never claimed either.... Odd innit?

See I can understand if it is a gentle knock with no damage to leave it. But to leave a dent!

This happened to us a few weeks ago. Large 4x4 reversed into our car in a store car park My husband is manager of the store and a customer witnessed the car hit ours and drive off and got the reg and told DH who contacted police. It was all on CCTV and police tracked down the person who hit us. They would not pay up and we would have had to go to court and our insurance wanted the excess to sort it out. It wasn't worth it so we now have a giant dent in our boot and they got away with it!

someone opened their car door onto my brand new only a few weeks old car, and did a runner

i was not happy

We saw a car reverse into another car in a supermarket car park, then drive off. There is no way the driver didn't know. I wrote down the car make, model and number plate, and description of the driver, and went in and found the owner. We just (five months later) got a grateful phone call from her; due to our statement, the other driver was found liable and his insurance paid up; he was also in trouble with the police for leaving the scene.

I would always leave a note. But then I am disgustingly honest.

If the state of driving in the Waitrose car park today is anything to go by then it's perfectly feasible that someone could bump a car and not even bloody notice.

Am annoyed but it's beginning to take over. I should just chill, accept these things happen and get on with life.

That's the grown up thing to do isn't it?

Yesterday i saw an elderly lady reverse out of a parking space into a car waiting for her to leave. Despite him beeping the horn at her, she continued to reverse into the car, and when she couldnt move any more, because she was trying to push the car out of the way, she tried one last reversing movement, looked behind to see what was stopping her from moving, saw the other car, pulled forward and drove off!

There were 2 people in the damaged car, one of them took down her number plate, their side panel was dented and scraped, she was so insistent on reversing even when she had hit the car, the damaged one was rocking from her effort.

SHE looked mightily pissed off they hadnt moved out of her way, while they just looked flabbergasted!

I was astonished she just drove off, i thought she was pulling forward to get out and look at the damage!

I once hit a car in tescos car park. Did I leave my details? Hell no- the moose had parked diagonally across her space practically coming into my space and leaving me no room to get out (there was a car in the other space next to me so I had no room to manoeuvre that side either)
I didn't feel at all guilty as had she parked in her space properly it wouldn't have happened

Hell yeah, no point going in and getting someone to find her. Just barge your way out and to hell with it. Good move there.

I had two small kids and it was a massive car park was I hell running after a moose who can't be arsed to park properly in a space. Also 'barge it out the way' is very dramatic and factually incorrect. My back end caught her front very slightly as I left the space