Or maybe there's nothing more that can be done? I don't know?
Basically last Friday I was turning into a one way street and suddenly there was a van there turning out (having gone down it the wrong way) and scrawped all along the back end of my car (having managed to slam on and swerve to one side or else there would have been more damage). The driver looked me in the eyes and continued to drive off down the road. I was so shocked but managed to pull out of the way of incoming traffic and turn round the try and get the reg of this guy (sort of half expecting him to have stopped, but no, still driving). So I quickly jotted down what I thought was reg on my hand.
This guy in a van turned down the street and I signalled him and asked if he'd seen the accident, he said he had and the guy had pulled into the next one way street the wrong way. I presumed he had stopped to give me his details so let the witness go (stupidly without taking any details) and drove to the street he had been seen to turn down but he wasn't there.
At this point I rang my DH in tears asking him to dash out to pick DD up from school, which I was already late for from all this, and has DS asleep in the car. Told him I was going straight up to the police station after having another look round for this guy.
So got to the station and thankfully DS stayed asleep in his pram while I cried out the whole sorry tale to the desk lady. She took all the details of the accident and the suspected reg etc. She then basically said she would file the report, it would get sent to somewhere in Eccles to be investigated, it's a slow process she said, but no mention of whether anything would be done to try and find the driver in the meantime. She just said I would eventually get a letter saying if my case had been assigned an officer and if they'd been able to find the driver at all. She made it sound like it's a really lengthy process, I would have thought they would prefer not to give this person the chance to repair their car. I've never been victim of a hit and run and really didn't know what to expect.
Is this normal? AIBU to be peeved at the apparent lack of interest? Obviously my little accident pales into insignificance next to more serious crimes which need investigating but we're now unsure what to do re fixing the car, if we claim of the insurance we lose £100 excess and 2 yrs no claims if the driver is never found or paying for the possibly expensive repair ourselves. It just seems so unfair!