To expect the police to do their job properly

[DrivingMum]

I was involved in a car crash last week. I called 999 and two police officers arrived. They literally checked each car registration plate was insured and left. They did not check if either of us had a licence or were insured to drive either car. It now turns out this lady borrowed the car and was not insured and doesn't have a licence. If the police had checked at the time she could have been charged there and then. Now it looks like I will be liable for the claim even though it was the other woman that caused the crash.

I will calm down when she gets her justice.

Why should every other driver go to the trouble of insuring their cars and passing their driving tests for these idiots to do what they like.

I have put in a formal complaint about the two officers. I also took a photograph of her driving with the date on it which I have passed onto the police.

We had same. Driver had no insurance, no lincese or mot. But they missed it because the van had insurance because the person he brought it from two weeks previous hadn't cancelled it yet. I was off work for 4 months and car was a write off

My Mum did require an ambulance the police didn't bother to wait while it arrived.

She didn't give the police any name as they didn't ask for it she wrote them down for me.

The insurance company have written to me stating that she was not on the policy relating to the car and their enquiries show she doesn't have a licence.

I sympathise. I was run over by an idiot who was uninsured. Police really couldn't have given less of a toss, even when I had proof that he was trying to commit fraud! (He phoned me to persuade me to say he'd had the accident the day after it happened - he had obviously got some insurance in the meantime.)

They should have asked if anyone was injured and any personal injury collision should be investigated and reported fully. If there is evidence of offences such as driving without due care the party should be dealt with then and there.

If I was you I'd register a complaint.

Also they are no longer called RTA's but RTC's - Road Traffic Collisions as it is seen there are NO accidents, there is always a cause, be it driver error or outside influence (eg dog running out etc)