Slight knock

[ScottD3]

While I'm sat at the pool side relaxing on our final night of honeymoon.
We are planning our trip back home and tasks we need to do.
Collect the dogs, small shopping, washing and such.

This brings on thought of another thing I need to sort out.

My car.

As we was on our way to the airport I had a slight knock with another car.

Went through a small road work section with manual stop and go signs.
My side was green, other side was red.
I drove through.
About three quarters of the way through the impatient driver of the other car at the stop sign decided to drive through.

We made contact.
She got all abusive, I got out, she stopped being abusive and attempted to drive out while we was still touching.

I got back in, moved my car to a safe location while she caused a small blockage.

I phoned the police and informed them of what happened, they did not seem to care and said it's something for the insurance and we need to exchange details.

I wrote mine down and the wife tried exchanging details but she refused.
So I placed my details under her window and carried on our trip to the air port.

Informed the insurance company who said it likely be a 50%50 due to no evidence of her going through the stop sign.

I checked my Dash cam and it did not record anything.

So check your dash cams, make sure they are recording.

Not looking forward to claiming or getting the car repaired.

[Delboy]

so did she refuse to give her details like name and address too?

[ScottD3]

Originally Posted by Delboy

so did she refuse to give her details like name and address too?

Yup.

She kept yelling "Get the **** away from my car!!"

[mattylondon]

Originally Posted by ScottD3

Yup.

She kept yelling "Get the **** away from my car!!"

Damn, the one time you needed your dash cam to work.

Hope you get the car sorted.

[Delboy]

Is it not an offence to leave the scene without exchanging details?

Hope you got her number plate?

[tonupkid]

Sorry to hear that Scott, but, more important, Congratulations to you both

[ScottD3]

Originally Posted by Delboy

Is it not an offence to leave the scene without exchanging details?

Hope you got her number plate?

It is.
But it's also an offence to refuse the exchange of details.
I headed mine over.
I have photographic
And video evidence of me doing so.

I guess it's all on her now.

See what letters we get when we get home tomorrow.
No emails or text messages at the moment.
It's a little bit annoying that I got no idea what's going on but I guess it's only been a week.

Thanks Tony.
It's only been a year in the waiting.

[David's8]

Really sorry to hear about the knock. I was almost hit in the side by someone entering a traffic controlled area from a side road the other day. I drove into the kerb to avoid hitting them. They drove off but i did catch up and they then raised there hand in what i suppose was a "my (i.e. their) fault" gesture. Mrs D strongly advised i didnt get out the car and start an argument - they had kids in the back (who I would have hit in the side if I hadnt stopped).

Dont suppose there's any chance of getting a statement from the traffic control operative?

[tc4332]

Scott,
Congrats to you both on the nuptials.
Hope that you manage to sort it all out easily.
I had an incident once where a chap in a small van dived out of a side road from my right. I realised that thereb was an old lady in the pax seat so swerved to my left, caught the kerb and was pulled into a lamp post. Car badly damaged, the lamp post is still there, and the van drove off. Luckily a car travelling in the opposite direction had a quick thinking driver who pulled across and forced him to stop. Because traffic in both directions was blocked the police attended and sorted it all out for me.
The strange thing was he had the same insurance as a bloke that had driven into my back a few weeks earlier and they had already forked out for those repairs.
The hard part of all this apart from the inconvenience is that if the fault driver has an excess you have to beat it out of him unless you are insured for any and all excess charges.
It is an offence to leave the scene of a RTC(RTA in old money) without exchanging details. I think legally it becomes a "hit & run".

[ScottD3]

Thanks lads.

I think it does but she stayed there, I left lol

I reported it to the police and insurance.
So I should be ok.

Sat in Mauritius's airport at the moment.
Waiting for our flights home.

I'll give them a ring on Monday and see what happens.