Boy tumbled into daughter's car in carpark

[Minicarz]

A group of five 13-15 year old boys were messing about in the car park today and one of them pushed another into my daughter's car. It's an Aygo and she was in first / second gear, crawling in traffic to get out onto the road.
One boy got his foot caught under the driver's tyre and it pulled his trainer off, and skinned his heel.
She got out but they wouldn't give names and after shouting at her for 'running over their mate' they ran away without giving names. She did manage to ask the boy (who limped off) his first name and age - 13.
She has a video she took immediately after she stopped. It shows the boys and the injury as he limped off. No dash cam.
A man walking by gave his number to her as witness and two boys stopped and said it was the other boys. They also gave first names and numbers to her.
She phoned the police from the carpark and they said we'll just give you a crime number, which they have.
She is worried about the boy. All the children scattered.
What else should she do? She is upset.

Very unlikely they got her number plate, just forget about it and if something gets back to her, she has a witness and all will be good.

Unless the boys stopped to take down her license plate number, they have no way of tracing her. And from what you’ve said, they yelled a bit then wandered off. Unless they had their phones out filming it, she should just not worry about it.

For gods sake do not inform the insurance company. All companies now rate on non fault and no claims.

Ex insurance worker here, and there’s no way would I report that. She will have her premiums increased for 3 years.

Insurance companies rate on claims and incidents regardless of fault. So even if no one claims, your premiums will go up significantly as it will be recorded as a non fault incident. With the company I worked for, it would go up around 25-30% at renewal.

She needs to report it to the insurance so they can gather witness statements while it's still fresh in everyone's mind. If he makes a claim in a years time she will wish she reported it now.

The premiums wont go up, this is nonsense. Ive had to report things that no one claimed on before, it doesnt make a difference

I never know how people film things so quickly to be honest so at least she has that, my phone is always at the bottom of my bag so I wouldnt be able to get it out on time, I do wonder about having a dash cam.

Untrue.

Don't scaremonger.

Don't tell insurers!!! Of course they will put the premium up!

She needs to be more careful in a carpark. She should have stopped the car.

Similar happened to my son, and the insurance company told us it was an offence not to report it. The boy involved has put in a claim too. He ran out from behind a van into the side of the car. He claimed a full year later, and apparently can until he is 21!!

Has she asked the car park operator if they have CCTV of the the incident?

Why did she want their names? My only concern would be that the boys was fine. At 13, he is old enough to know to let his parents know if he is injured.

"If he makes a claim in a years time she will wish she reported it now."

How would that happen? They don't know who she is or her car number and all cctv would likely be wiped.

Personally I'd not do anymore. It's his fault and hopefully he learns from it. I don't see how anything bad can happen to your daughter.

That would work if it was a toddler who had run off - making sure their parent had a good safe hold of them before moving; but teenage boys who get up to mindless stuff like this will often deliberately wait and react, in spite of what you ask them or think they've understood.

In their immature brains, they think it's funny to suddenly push their friends at moving cars; and will often bide their time and deliberately wait until the car starts moving before shoving them. Unless you're happy to park up and wait for however long it takes until they've completely left the site, you will struggle to avoid the trouble that they're after.

It's always difficult with that age: where they're too old to be supervised by parents, but still too young to be sure to make common-sense, safe behaviour choices.

No 🙈 don't do this.

You can’t stop a car every time you see lads messing around in case one takes it in their head to push another into your car

Agreed. I regularly have to drive down the road that leads to the local high school, and the number of teenagers who step into the road without looking, or jostle each other off the pavement, is incredible.

When you see a small child, as a driver, your eyes automatically lock on to them as you assess whether they are able/likely to try to run into the road and adjust your speed accordingly; but you never expect to have to do the same with teenagers.

Why is everyone commenting on an 8 month old post that the op hasn’t reactivated?

It is the LAW!!! If you don’t then she will be in more trouble! Pay for no claim discount so if you claim your insurance doesn’t go up

Didn't notice! 😅

Zombie

Not quite a year since it happened but could @Minicarz come back and tell us the outcome?

Unfortunately this is true

She has done everything required by law, forget about it.

Still a Zombie.