Would you report this or just mind your own business?!

[Steinbeck]

I have just seen a car reverse and smash into a bollard on a part pedestrianised/part off-road parking area. The driver didn't stop! There is damage to the bollard and part of the drivers tail light is on the ground. I took the car registration number.

Do nothing or report?

No other car or persons involved.

Given the news of today I would be inclined to forget about the troubles of a bollard tbh. .

If nobody was hurt just leave it. Its a bollard.I expect the car is damaged and will cost the driver enough already.

I'd report it to the owner of the bollard. They'll be to be repaired.

If it's public land then you can report damaged street furniture to the council. But, I think if I'd reversed into a bollard which didn't "belong" to anybody (i.e. not on a private driveway, looked to be municipal etc) I'd probably just drive away too, to be honest, though depending on level of damage might drop a note to the council to report it. What else could the driver have done? What would they stop for? It's not as though they could swap insurance details with the bollard.

I wouldn't.

Public street furniture gets paid for by all of us.

Report. Hopefully this driver won't be so careless when something soft is around.

I wouldn't report this. No one was hurt, no individual's property was damaged. Street furniture is there (sort of) for that purpose.

Why would you report it?

What possible good would it do?

This happened to me once, but i phoned the council after i got home and they were a bit confused about the whole thing.

As others have said, its not like he could swop insurance details with a bollard so you might be assuming they have acted badly when they haven't. I'm not sure it's a big issue to be honest.

I probably won't do anything about it it but a driver is required by law to report such incidents, regardless of whether anyone else was involved. It is till regarded as 'driving away from the scene of an accident'.

Love the 'can't swap insurance details with a bollard' point though!!

So you've seen the car going away. How do you know that the driver didn't report the incident later on?
Amazed that you had the time to take the number plate too. That's not something I would ever have thought aboutbin th spots, unless I was pxcting the person to NOT report the incident (see point above)

Unless another car or someone else's private property was damaged, I wouldn't bother.

Surely at some point everyone who's had an accident has to drive away from it...

Do you think he should have left a note on the bollard?

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I damaged council property by reversing into it a few years ago. No one else involved. I rang the council when I got home (actually I rang 101 and they informed the council). It was repaired the next afternoon but I never got a bill or anything.