Hit by uninsured driver - police dropped case

[Rosecottage888]

I was hit by an uninsured driver back in February. The girl was only18 and had only passed her test a week before. Her dad took over the correspondence (turns out I knew him from school) and gave me the insurance details. Hire car was sorted, repairs sorted then I get a call from my insurance company telling me they were not insured so everything would need to be covered by my insurance.
Police were involved from the start, I sent them all the forms back but heard nothing, so chased them 6 weeks later and they confirmed they missed my original email.
Police called a couple of months ago to say the driver failed to responded to confirm their details so they would be persuing them through court for this as well as driving without insurance.
Now I've had another email to say sorry but we won't be taking this any further as our deadline for charging the driver has elapsed. Elapsed because they missed my original email! I'm so angry. Im now out of pocket because my insurance has had to cover the courtesy car as well as the damage (over £3k) so my premiums will go up, and she gets off scott free and can carry on driving around.

Not even asking for advice really just venting. So fucking angry.

His sister lived around the corner from mum. They didn’t bother.

If it’s too difficult they don’t bother.

But she wasn’t the driver, she’s nothing to do with it. Unless it’s serious life changing injuries or a fatality it’s not proportional to visit an alleged driver’s family member. Also, they can’t make her tell them where her brother is.

It still makes you think an uninsured stinker gets away with it. And they do. Since when did the police not ask questions about where someone is?

Believe me when I say that the team dealing with the investigation are just as frustrated as you when someone gets away with something like this. When I started working in collisions the sort of enquiry you mention was carried out to a degree, I still don’t think then we would have knocked on a sister’s door. But with online reporting the numbers of incidents reported have increased exponentially and the staff haven’t.

Small claims court, even better if she then doesn’t pay up as she’ll have an unsettled CCJ. Fuck her!

So you want her to lose her licence for an accident where no-one was hurt? I think maybe she's learnt her lesson.

@Betternottoask You have no idea whether she has learned her lesson or not. And it is entirely irrelevant. Any person old enough to drive is old enough to know, absolutely, that they must have a licence and insurance. And if you think it is something that is "age-dependant" and they don't need these things if they are younger, at what age do you think they should know these things and do them? I certainly think that it is unacceptable that there have been no consequences for her at all.