To ring the nonemergency police number?

[Dordeydoo]

Have posted in chat to

Today some idiotic lorry driver crushed the top corner of my car door whilst I was stood in the road putting things in my car. I had been stood strapping child in And putting things in for approx 3/4 mins before this happened.

Lorry driver misjudged the space and badly crushed the top of my car. He got out refused to take blame or swap details. And said I was to blame.

I've contacted insurers and his company, company say im to blame to.

I want to contact the police about this as feel he was driving dangerously etc and could have killed me as his lorry caught my door just centimetres from my head.

WIBU to ring 101 about this

Sorry for long post

...& (as pp just said) i'm also sure its an offence not to hand over insurance details. The guy's just trying to make you think twice about claiming anything bysaying it was your fault (when itblatently wasn't based on what you've said here).

It is not a legal obligation to inform the police of RTAs

K, perhaps it was for me because i worked in a civil service vehicle.

No, it's because your employers wanted to cover their arses

You only have an oblication to report if someone is injured

In a normal traffic accident, with no injuries, drivers simply exchange details and there's no need to involve the police.

If someone is injured, or if one party fails to stop and give his or her details, I'm fairly sure you're legally obliged to inform the police.

So far as fault is concerned, it can't be your fault if you are stationary and he is moving. I think if you were parked out of sight (blind corner) and he'd taken every reasonable care, he might have had an excuse - would still have been his fault technically.

All that is blown out of the water by his refusal to give his details to you. He's now committed an offence and, so far as I'm aware, the onus is now on him to prove it was your fault: it's no longer a case of your word against his.

It took a while to put child in seat and then strap his seat into the car (he's in a group 0), plus bags and coats.

Police were Definately interested and are investigating

I don't understand why people even discuss blame at the road side, just let the insurance people deal with it. I can understand not accepting responsibility, you can just say that you won't accept responsibility, but what a lot of people do instead is have an argument and try to persuad the other person that they were in the wrong. Even if that worked they could just deny they said it later anyway. Just swap details and move on.

The police will be interested because of the attitude of the driver and the company. If he's driven off without giving details it will suggest to them that they have something to hide. Does he have the correct license? Is he in his driving hours? Is his lorry roadworthy? Vosa would also be very interested.