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What is the correct thing to do?

10 replies

Correctthingtodo · 11/06/2024 17:06

Posting here for traffic
Incident yesterday
I had edged out of a driveway (parent of friends) but still on wide pavement & not blocking, turning right into the traffic but stationary as traffic lights were red & couldn't pull onto the correct side of the road.
A young teen has come around the front of my car from the left on an electric scooter and as he has swerved back in has clipped my car. He has swerved into the road & come off his scooter at the edge of the road. No oncoming vehicles.

I got out spoke to him checked he was okay, so did another lady - lady confirmed I hadn't done anything she was walking the same way & had witnessed the whole thing. No one in the stationary traffic moved. Lad got back on his scooter & off he went, as he motored off I said please wear a helmet.
TBH I didn't think anything more about it as I was stationary.
Today I find out the lad & his parents went round to my friend's elderly parents house (as they live nearby) & are asking for my insurance details - he has told his parents that I hit him, asked through the window if he was okay & then stated I just drove off!!!!
I don't want to cause any issues for my friends parents but I didn't do anything (they just said they would speak to me)
WWYD??

OP posts:
FrogsWormsandCaterpillars · 11/06/2024 17:16

Should you not have waited until you could pull out safely rather than blocking some of the path? He wouldn’t have been expecting you to be there

DontBuyANewMumCashmere · 11/06/2024 17:17

I wouldn't do anything. He was using a banned electric scooter so isn't in a position to do anything!

CarolineFields · 11/06/2024 17:18

you shouldn't have been blocking the path, and you should have reported the accident to the police. he is probably on an illegal scooter, so he would have been in the wrong originally, but you have put yourself in the wrong now. I guess you just need to go and speak to the police about it

EatCrow · 11/06/2024 17:18

FrogsWormsandCaterpillars · 11/06/2024 17:16

Should you not have waited until you could pull out safely rather than blocking some of the path? He wouldn’t have been expecting you to be there

OP was stationary, he should have been looking where he was going.

Amsx · 11/06/2024 17:19

I'd report it to 101

Sisiwawa · 11/06/2024 20:55

Electric scooters are illegal on the road or the pavement so I don't think he'd have a case. He has no insurance, no helmet, no driving licence probably, ignore

Lifeinlists · 11/06/2024 21:02

Sisiwawa · 11/06/2024 20:55

Electric scooters are illegal on the road or the pavement so I don't think he'd have a case. He has no insurance, no helmet, no driving licence probably, ignore

This.
Just trying it on as so many do. Maybe report it to your insurance company for clarification?

weareallqueens · 11/06/2024 21:43

Police, definitely. If they want to get insurance involved you have to keep yourself right.

Correctthingtodo · 14/06/2024 18:57

Thank you ever - I reported to police they advised nothing to answer & the family never returned or gave their details.
So they are not even aware if thud

OP posts:
Allfur · 14/06/2024 19:01

I'm not sure it's your position to give safety tips to a random stranger

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