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Dp has just run some bloke over

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calamityjam · 15/01/2017 01:00

Dp has just gone out to find a petrol station open 24 hours for milk for the kids in the morning. He was doing 30 in a 30 zone when a bloke literally bolted out of nowhere in front of the car. Before Dp had a chance to see him, he had hit him and he flew across the road and crumpled in a heap. Dp obviously stopped and jumped out to check he was ok and was joined by the bloke's young mates, one of them puched dp in the face. The bloke insisted he was fine and urged dp to go home. He is now home and a nervous wreck. What do you think he should do? phone the police?

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AnnieAnoniMouse · 15/01/2017 02:42

No law,I just don't understand why it is so important to have milk or how someone can be so disorganised that a 1am shopping trip is so vital

Are you judgy pants giving you a wedgie?

I chose to make something this evening that I knew would use the last of the milk. I'd rather go out tonight to get milk, than when I wake up at 6, so I can have a coffee before I have a shower. It's not 'vital' and I'm not disorganised.

ICantThinkOfAUsernameH · 15/01/2017 02:46

Ring police

Touchmybum · 15/01/2017 02:49

Best to get his side of the story to the police before Mr-walk-out-in-front-of-him has time to think about it.

Getdownwiththesickness · 15/01/2017 02:50

mindtrope

I'd love to see how perfect you are, I bet we all wished we were like you.

Reality16 · 15/01/2017 08:48

The some bloke", was in a gang of around 15, and as I have said previously my dp was assaulted, so forgive me for not coming across as mega sympathetic. Under the circumstances I am not sure I could have felt safe stopping. but it wasn't the guy who your husband hit that assaulted him these are 2 entirely different issues and I am amazed that you seem to have no concern for the man who was hit by the car. You say he didnt stick around but earlier you said he waited ten minutes after it. Just because this mans mate reacted badly doesn't mean that your husband hitting the guy in the first place is any less of an incident. I hope the guy is ok, I would have without a doubt phoned an ambulance who knows what kind of injury he may have suffered. I am quite surprised that anyone would t have automatically done the same tbh

exLtEveDallas · 15/01/2017 08:56

I would have without a doubt phoned an ambulance who knows what kind of injury he may have suffered. I am quite surprised that anyone would t have automatically done the same tbh

Really?

You have already been punched in the face by one person. There are about 15 other people there who DONT want you to call, you are on your own against these 15 other people, and you would still call?

Really? Crikey, how brave.

neonrainbow · 15/01/2017 08:57

Some twat runs out in front of her dps car with no warning, her dp gets punched and she's supposed to feel sorry for the guy that caused all this in the first place!? He didn't want the police and presume didn't warrant an ambulance so why call the ambulance and waste their time for someone who would have legged it by the time the ambulance got there?

By the way he ain't going to get in trouble for "leaving the scene". He didn't leave the scene, he stayed around to get belted by the idiots stupid mate. Theres no law that says an accident has to be reported from the scene.

Reality16 · 15/01/2017 09:10

Some twat runs out in front of her dps car with no warning, her dp gets punched and she's supposed to feel sorry for the guy that caused all this in the first place!?. Again. These are 2 separate incidents. The man who got hit by the car did not punch anything he ans should have been afforded the same consideration as you would anyone else you hit with your car would get

Reality16 · 15/01/2017 09:11

really?crikey?how brave

Almost as brace as hanging about for 10 minutes after it happened

WellErrr · 15/01/2017 09:13

I'dve got back in my car, driven off and then phoned.

ParrotPudding · 15/01/2017 09:19

Hope that you and DP managed to get some rest OP. Glad that he logged it with the police, unfortunately there is a market for people pressing charges against hit and runs so good your dp has covered his back.

ParrotPudding · 15/01/2017 09:21

Thats not to say thats what is going on here, but better to do things the right way just incase. My money is on it being a group of lads on a night out, few too many drinks and the lad that got hit was probably quite embarrassed.

Reality16 · 15/01/2017 09:24

It's vital that he tells his insurance company within the time they stipulate also (usually 24 hours) if he fails to do this and a claim is submitted he may be subject to a clause that will increase his excess. Check your policy for that ASAP

user1484226561 · 15/01/2017 09:28

agree, police and ambulance should have been phoned immediately. If this guy is seriously hurt, they might have trouble finding him now.

LandLock · 15/01/2017 09:33

He hung around for ten minutes so he can't have felt that intimidated.

JoyfulAndTriumphant · 15/01/2017 09:34

My friend ran someone over last Christmas. 2am, she was driving back from her boyfriends house. Doing 40 on an otherwise deserted 40mph dual carriageway. Barriered off to pedestrians on each side. Some guy, absolutely steaming, vaulted the barrier and literallly chucked himself across her bonnet.

She pulled up and called the police and an ambulance from the car. Her car was a complete wreck. She was scared to get out as she was on her own and as I said, the road was deserted, but she felt she had to in case the guy neeee help. Thankfully as she approached him another car came and a couple got out to help.

The guy was ok. He dislocated his elbow but nothing serious. When the police showed up, he was well known to them, it wasn't the first time this had happened to him, it was clearly a short cut home to nip across that road.

My friend was beeathalysed and they looked at the mark on the road and ascertained from that she wasn't speeding. Nothing else happened.

exLtEveDallas · 15/01/2017 09:35

I'm sure one of the guys 14 or so friends would have been able to call the ambulance and police, especially as OPs partner was a bit busy with the 'victim' and being assaulted and all.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/01/2017 09:38

It's all very well saying what should have happened from the comfort of your home. None of us know how we would have reacted in that situation, in shock, having been punched. The important thing is, he didn't flee the scene leaving an injured person and he phoned the police when he got home.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/01/2017 09:38

Exactly LtEve.

Reality16 · 15/01/2017 09:39

I'm sure one of the guys 14 or so friends would have been able to call the ambulance and police but it was the OP DH's reap to call at the very least the police. Any decent human being would phone and ambulance for someone they had just hit with their car surely?

Reality16 · 15/01/2017 09:40

*responsibility

JoyfulAndTriumphant · 15/01/2017 09:41

Things aren't always as black and white as that, reality. If you're surrounded by 15 blokes telling you not to call the police, and you've already been assaulted, it clearly is not as easy as just doing it anyway.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/01/2017 09:41

Not if someone insists they are fine and seems to be. The ambulance would probably have turned up to an empty road with just the driver and his car there.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/01/2017 09:41

sorry, that was to Reality.

ArgyMargy · 15/01/2017 09:41

If you hit someone at 30mph there is an 80% chance of death. Generally you have some chance of braking but if he genuinely saw nothing until the man was on his bonnet it's amazing the "bloke" was able to walk away.

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