To ask what you’d do if someone bumped your car and drove off?

[aperollingintotheweekend]

So I was driving home on the motorway and hit traffic therefore all vehicles were crawling along at a very snails pace.

the driver behind me clearly wasn’t paying any attention and rolled into the back of my car, they bumped into me at a low speed almost as if a handbreak had been left off that sort of speed

i tried to get them to pull over but they just drove off and when the motorway picked up pace again they were long gone. My car isn’t damaged as such but has a few marks on it. I’m not sure if I should be reporting this or not?

I feel like at the very least I should be reporting that they weren’t paying attention but I guess it’s my word against theirs and doubtful any cctv would be on the motorway? I couldn’t even remember which junction it was at now, I was on a longish journey.

what would you do here? Try to raise it or let it go?

Did you get number plate? If not there's nothing you can do.

Unless I had dashcam footage or the numberplate there's not a lot you can do

If there’s no damage, I wouldn’t bother.

Vengeance.

Someone did it to me at McDonald's drive thru and I didn't even bother saying anything. But I do drive a very old car so am not precious about it in the slightest!

This happened to me! In a Sainsbury's car park last weekend! I got the number plate, make and colour of the car - I also saw the driver, her hair colour and what she was wearing (on her top half). Damage is minimal on our old car - she 100% knew she'd hit us. I was planning to post on the local FB group advising her to contact me but bottled it and now it's too late... so I'll just huff about it.

If it was really as slow as you say then it's unlikely to have caused any damage at all.

Report it to the police as it’s an offence to drive off.

If there’s no damage, I wouldn’t do anything at all.

If there was damage I’d report it to the police.

This. If I had the number plate I'd report them to the police and tell my insurance. Dodgy fker.

I got the number plate. Called the police and it went to court. She got a fine and points.

Get it fixed 🤨

If it was as low impact as you describe, the marks will probably polish out. You can get products for polishing out scratches.

I’d be annoyed but I don’t think I’d bother pursuing it.

There's nothing you can do, as others have said. I came out of work once and the whole back half of my car was destroyed. I reported it just for the sake of the insurance company.

I'd report it and let insurance deal with it. They can pay for the repairs. I would have taken the registration plate and hope there's camera footage. I'm not going to let them get away with that sort of thing.

I was once rear ended and didn't report it though, even though I did have all the information. Probably should have. I did speak to the police about it (didn't go as far as making a statement) and they told me if I went in then they would follow it up and charge the guy with careless driving (due to statement they made about why they hit me in the first place). No damage so I didn't bother. Probably would have if they hadn't stopped.

I wouldn’t do anything but then my car is a decade old and covered in scratches anyway 🤷‍♀️

If it was such low impact and no real damage then I'd put it out of my mind as one of those things.