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Reporting minor road incident to police - will they advise the insurance company?

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70smillie · 21/06/2022 11:38

Driving to work this morning, I clipped the wing mirror of a parked car in moving traffic. I looked in my rear view mirror and couldn't tell which of the cars I could have hit, I couldn't see any wing mirror which had folded in or back, or was hanging off. Mine is fine so I carried on. The same thing happened to me when I was sitting in my car a couple of years ago and i just popped it back into position and all was fine. About half an hour later I suddenly realised I hadn't seen the front of the wing mirror at all so I'd no idea if it there was damage and I had potentially left the scene of a collision. I drove back and there was no-one parked in the exact spot anymore so I can't leave details.

I'm going to report and obviously happy pay for any damage. I've started to report online and as I was filling in the insurance details I had a thought that how this would affect insurance. My husband is obsessed with car insurance and no claims and will do anything to avoid a claim even when someone drove right into him. I'll still report but does anyone know if the insurance company will do a search at time of renewal and find this report ? Was hoping to just pay up if neccesary and not have to come clean to husband!

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thereisonlyoneofme · 21/06/2022 11:56

Police wont be interested, and if you dont know whose car you potentially hit no point in contacting insurance. I have had no end of wing mirrors damaged and
no one ever stopped. I just paid for my own to be replaced

Nookable · 21/06/2022 11:59

Police only report an incident to the insurer is if the police have to move the vehicle from the scene and put it in their storage.

LongPath · 21/06/2022 12:02

The police won't be do anything and if you don't know who you hit, there's little point reporting it.

However, you are supposed to report accidents to your insurers regardless of whether you've claimed, so DH is committing insurance fraud if he's not doing that. The question is "accidents or claims", not only claims.

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