rb5037

Went to Harrogate at the weekend and this morning (Mon) woke up to find my scoob in the hotel carpark to have a lovely dent in the front wing.
There was no message on the car and i was not reported to the reception. After the search round the carpark for cars with marks and no joy we went back to reception again to find that the carpark had cctv. Every time a car moved that weekend i moved mine into a safer place. on the last and 3rd move, not realising it, i had parked it under the cctv camera.
We got everything on tape, from the driver walking through the hotel hall to hitting my car.
After talking to the staff i now had his full details and went on a mission to find him.
To cut a long story short, we found him and what a to$$er, he was not going to say or do anything about the damage and even tried to blame a work mate.
He worked for a company called "Showforce" based in east London, they do work for exhibitions ie erecting stands.
Hopping things all go smoothly now with the insurance companys now.
Any good recomendations for paint sprayers in the Guildford area would be handy.

Sorry to bore
Adam

Got pictures now



[Edited by rb5037 - 22/06/2003 16:57:47]

:Mike:

Technically you could get the police to do him for driving away from the scene of an accident

bigsinky

really **** me off when this happens. company car so he doesn't give a flying **** about your car or his. hope they take the big excess outta his wages.

cheers

big sinky

Davestamf

Police not interested in taking such action these days, and I think damage done in a private car park may, in any case, fall outside their jurisdiction.

Smiler

And techinically he can sue the Hotel for breach of the Data Protection Act.

Just drop him a letter and then sue him.

Brendan Hughes

I think they are called DB or D&B in Dorking, used by Cheam, good marks from people here.

Eagle7

the police i know would defo try to get him on leaving the scene of an accident. It has to be reported within 24 hours IIRC.

wos 69

Get the git done.

rb5037

Thanks for all your replies.
YES i have the video tape
The police didn't want to know due to i being a private carpark.
As you said wot69 "get him done" and that will be done now having the cctv tape in my hands.
BA$T@RD!!!!!!!!!!!
String pants. Are you a pro at this sort of thing, offering your services? (legal not sexual i hope !)

Thanks Adam

Scooby Snacks 23

Sorry to hear your news Adam - b*stard.

You've got mail from me by the way.

Terzo228

mate so sorry to hear that , what a to$$er

flyguy2003

I think if you sent a copy of the tape to the head office of the company concerned and a brief outline of the conversation with the driver you may get a result, companies do not like bad press

Mick

TREG

Try ELITE AUTOS,which are based in Cranleigh-around 8 miles from Guildford.
01483 278383.E-Autos.



cheers,
Steve

beemerboy

Mate, as already mentioned in this thread...

"Go to his employers about this" especially if the car is registered to them".

that would *uck him up big time and teach the **** a lesson into the bargain!!!!

hope it goes well.

Dazza

Stringpants

Good advice re. the Company...I will speak on the phone if required...Yes I am an expert......hit loads of cars!!!!

Only joking.


Stringpants.

slacker

well if the insurance is sorting it out then ok.

personally i would have been more than a little pissed and would have taken the situation to the lawyers and done my worst to that lying martha fokker. can the cops really do nothing about it? get some legal advise and if the cops did not do their job, then tell who ever's in charge at that particular cop shop that you're taking action against them for being useless fannies! at least make an official complaint...its no wonder nothing gets done as some of these cops are really lazy ***** and don't want to know about crime!!!

rb5037

All points taken, thanks.
Slacker tour points have been taken on board but like your username i'm also a bit of a slacker and as it's getting sorted now I can't be ar$$ed to have a moan.
I've found in life that saying "what comes around goes around" does happen and will get my own back on day.
One bonus is that the body shop said the bumper needs replacing due to not been able to respray it.
whoopie!! bye bye stone chips.
As this also happened it's made me buy a P1 lip today to get fitted when the work is done.

Thanks to all

Adam

rb5037

BTTT now i have the the pic's

Fulham71

got any bigger pics mate ?

redeye

glad to hear you got the twosser.
somebdy bash my car and drove away once.luckily an old couple spotted him and took his details.
i went straight to the police who then gave me his details.so i went to see him,he turned out to be a complete wa----r and turned pretty nasty and refused to accept any blame.
i got him charged,got my car sorted free.that will teach him now his insurance is sky high and probably has a few extra points on his liscence.
get the b-----d done.

redeye

Phil M

Good of the hotel to give you the cctv tape.

Av the ****, i had someone reverse into the side of my car in a supermarket car park when i was in it, then she (yes she) drived off in her rav 4. i had to run and catch her and open her door whilst she was still moving! she seemed oblivious, got it sorted on her insurance though.

scooby stu!!

sorry to hear this m8
cops won't do anything? so if you get run over in a private car park they can't do anything?
mabey not for leaving the scene of an accident but surely
they could do him for criminal damage??

just a thought.

Stu

rb5037

Stu

Found the bloke and it's now going through insurance. Bit of a bonus really as i'm getting other bits done now, P1 front lip plus colour coding bits.

Paul leave the size of my pic's alone

Adam

Maddy

why is it that the police are never interested if someone hits your car, I lost £800 because of a hit and run a few years back and I had witnessed the reg plate and bagged a good extract of paint from the other vehicle.

But if you do 38 on a 30 ... ZAP... the police want to know about it, 3 points and a £60 fine, Thankyou!

I'm not saying all police are t0$$sers, in fact most of them are bl00dy good blokes or ladies. But I do feel that there seniours are deploying resouce in the wrong area and giving them a bad name.


Anyway now that i've had my rant , Glad you have you car all sorted

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

This bit about "private carparks" is so much Bull! try doing a few donuts in one, and see what happens.[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
Or is this another case of the cops having their cake and eating it?
Alcazar

Fulham71

Adam
I hear small is your middle name

Paul

dlharris

It's not just carparks. My wife was driving the kids to school last year when a bloke came out of a side road, didn't stop to look, just went straight into the side of my wifes car. He got out of the car and some witnesses told him to get his insurance details. So he got back in his car...and drove off. Luckily we got his registration and reported it to the police. I used elephant.co.uk to check that the registration was ok and it was. To cut a long story short, few months later, got a call from the police to say they couldn't trace the car and they won't be continuing their enquiries. The police woman on the phone repeated the registration and even though we gave them the registration on a piece of paper, they'd somehow mixed up 2 letters. My wife tried to give her the correct registration, but the police woman seemed completely disinterested.

SlowBoy

iTrader: (1)

Adam,

Glad it's all being sorted mate I look forward to seeing the new and improved RB5 037, though I notice you you won't be at the next Surrey meet.

See ya when I see ya.

Rich.

talizman

iTrader: (1)

Unfortunately, the Road Traffic Act only pertains to "public places", therefore within certain types of car park, the police have no powers as such. Any matter arising in there would be classed as civil and you would have to fund it yourself, but of course that what your legal cover is for!

As for the criminal damage question, for a crime like this one you would have to prove intent, ie that the driver deliberately and willfully damaged RB5's car. Practically impossible unless the nugget admits doing it deliberately. Then he can be charged.

With regards to burn outs etc, these incidents are viewed as disorder and a "public nuisance" therefore the police can enter as they are classed as "criminal" as opposed to "road traffic".

Hope this clarifys things slightly.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Yep, as I thought, the cops have got their cake and are eating it, again[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
Alcazar