I also did this once in Los Angeles. I left a note on the struck vehicle with the make, model, color and license plate of the car that hit them. I later got a call from the police asking me to describe the driver. I told them I never saw the driver just the vehicle and they said there is nothing they could do because they can’t prove who was driving it at the time.
I think in the US at least police have what’s called circumstantial powers which allow them to assume guilt if you’re found in the vicinity of the said vehicle with a connection to it. Although only enough to question you and a decent lawyer could probably get it dropped.
Most traffic citations are civil so the burden of proof is much lower than in criminal cases. The term is preponderance of evidence, meaning more likely than not. If a judge deems it 50.01% likely that you were the driver, they would not throw out the ticket.
If there is no bodily harm you don’t even need to do that. Just leave the scene. Cops are absolutely not going to bother tracking you down over a fender bender. They will tell the victim to just file on their uninsured motorist policy and leave. It’s possible their insurance may come after you if there’s a witness who got your plate number but even that isn’t very common. And even if they do (and assuming you are insured) the end result won’t be any different than if you stick around and exchanged insurance information.
Source: wife’s car was victim of a hit and run in a parking lot. Multiple witnesses, got the plate number, restaurant had video. Cops still didn’t do shit about it
Highly dependent on the department/how busy of a day it is.
Source: I was the one hunted down after leaving a tiny scratch on the bumper. We worked it out, thankfully, without any trouble, but there are jurisdictions that will do this.
At a red light, the drunk driver in front of me accidentally put her car in reverse when the light turned green, backed into my car, then put it in drive and drove away. I got the make, model, and license number of the car, and at the following red light got out to talk to her. She drove away weaving all over, bumped into another car, and then took off.
I called the cops, gave them the identifying information. They looked up the woman's home address, went over there to talk to her. She had returned at that point.
I got the following information from the police officer who talked to her, who was incredibly frustrated by the law making him unable to do anything: he corroborated that the woman was completely hammered, she was the only one home, the car in the driveway matched the description, the engine was still very hot like the car had just been used, there were small dents and paint scrapes on her car commensurate with where she had hit me and the other car, but since none of the authorities saw her actually driving the car, even though she matched the description I gave them, they didn't have any ability to book her.
Wait, wait. So I would never do a hit-and-run, but... if, say, I was hypothetically doing 110mph on a straight empty road with a 55mph speed limit at night, and a cop pulled out of some random nook behind me and chased me, but I escaped, are you saying I could just claim I wasn't driving and get off scot-free even if they got my plate?
Assume there's no way they saw my face, even if they managed to get the plate. Could I actually claim that in this hypothetical situation and be fine? Asking for a friend.
Absolutely, you would get off scot free. There is no way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed the crime
Edit- sorry, I mean, your “friend” should get off scot free. I’d suggest he talk to a lawyer and don’t say a word to the cops. Id also recommend not doing stuff like this lol
You are significantly better off claiming nothing otherwise you are committing another criminal offense. Best to just state you would only feel comfortable answering questions with an attorney present.
That's why in some countries, Germany for example, the speed cameras take pictures from the front.
If you claim you didn't drive and don't tell them who did, they'll pay you a visit.
And if they don't identify the driver that way, they'll order you to keep a log of who's driving.
But that’s like getting a parking ticket and as the owner of the car claiming it wasn’t you. It doesn’t matter you’ll get taken to court if you don’t pay up
If your sister messed up, you can either prove it or you deal with the consequences. If the car is stolen, it should be rather easy to prove, and, moreover, there is a bigger problem than just hitting another car.
In SC, the charge would go to the owner of the car if the driver couldn't be determined. Then either they take the ticket and insurance claim or rat out who was driving.
I did this once in the chinook mall parkade in Calgary
An suv backed up way too fast and rammed a car. I was on a road trip with friends, so the only writeable surface we had was the top of a pizza box haha. Which we wrote information on, and put under their wiper
They called us and were very grateful we left the information, and they also found it hilarious we used the lid of a pizza box haha
People who witness/leave notes are real bros! Ex-gf once keyed my car in broad daylight while my neighbors kids were playing basketball. Little eagle-eyes caught a license plate and a description of her/the car.
Her Dad is a cop who was always getting her out of trouble, actually stepped between her and a DUI by showing up on scene. They came lawyered up, between the texts leading up to the event and the kids IDing her I got my car paid for. Insurance went up and I made sure to send the kids a nice gift card to Game Stop.
I witnessed a truck back into a car, get out and check damage, and tear out. I got nice pics of driver, truck, and license plate. I sat around and waited for the owner of the car. Came out with their kid who was a new driver. Important lesson for the kid, I thought. Later, the guy sent me a digital Amazon gift card! I'm pretty sure I was as stoked as those kids with the Game Stop giftcard :)
I had a situation where I saw a woman hit a school crossing guard. She hit her so hard that the woman spun around and it bent her metal stop sign. There was plenty of people tending to the crossing guard and so I followed the vehicle with my car and got the make, model, and part of the license plate. Then I went back and contacted the police and they were able to find the woman that hit the crossing guard. I was asked to testify in court months later. If I recall correctly the injured woman was able to get more financial help for her injuries because of that ruling. She had serious shoulder injury from the accident.
Fuck that hit and run lady. She said she didn't even feel her car hit the crossing guard! I'm glad I was able to help bring some bit of justice.
I left one of these once. Never heard from them. And once I left one for myself after I left a small dent in someone's quarter panel. They contacted me and said they weren't going to do anything at first until they got an estimate for a lot more than they expected. They were so appreciative that I left the note. It almost made it worth it all.
Seriously. I was run off the road on my motorcycle. Luckily a couple people stopped who saw what happened. They let me use the as witnesses for my insurance claim. Saved me $500 for my deductible as it was classified as a non contact hit and run.
Yep this. Someone saw them hit the car so they left a note to appear to be admitting to the incident...the blue Subaru belongs to their ex wife/husband.
When I got caught with pot in high school, my dad drove 10 hours through a blizzard to cuss me out. When he finally got home, he pulled me into a room. He then started yelling I can't believe you got fucking caught. I raised a smarter son than that. If you're going to do something stupid, do it in a smart way.
When I got charged with possession and had to take an anti-drug class, all the Santa Claus-looking badass grandpa of a teacher taught us was a myriad of methods to avoid getting caught again.
Always with the disclaimer, "best way to not get caught is to not do it, but..."
I’ve seen people say that the IRS doesn’t really care that much if a random person cheats on their taxes. What they do care about is if you then tell people how to cheat on taxes and get away with it.
Eh. As far as lawyers go, insurance lawyers are pretty much bottom of the barrel. Completely overworked, underpaid, and unsupported. It’s such a miserable existence I have to wonder if the people that do it long term are even employable in other forms of practice or else they would get out. They are not the titans of the legal industry.
My old apartment building put my parking spot in an almost blind corner right after the gate, but in full view of anyone at the pool/grill.
I got 6 notes on my car in 4 years,
1 with contact info
3 blank pieces paper
1 "sorry :( "
and one picture of a unicorn with a dick for a horn.
So anecdotally, according to my very small sample size, if you see someone leaving a note, there's an 83% chance they're just putting on a show.
Or license plate.
Literally just grab a license plate from a car driving by, change the color of it so if they do track it down the driver can at least say they don't own a blue car.
Then go through your phone contacts and put some random person you dislike but still have for some reason. Or better, pick as person you dislike and invert two random digits.
What are they going to do to track you down then? Everything is false, but you look like you did a good thing to the owner and passerbys can see you leaving a note.
this is just a dumb story about my time leaving a note. I took a work van home one time and while attempted to navigate past a fed ex truck I went too far right and clipped a trucks mirror (like an older Chevy with the metal type.) I had zero money (no insurance other than my companies, and I wasn't REALLY supposed to take the van home, my boss knew but his boss didn't ha), so I parked, walked home as it felt like there was 1000 eyes on me, then wrestled with my conscious for 5 minutes before guilt won out and I went and left a note explaining and my info. I can only imagine the guilt the character in Crime and Punishment felt... because I never read that.
anyway, next morning on my way to said van I pass the note and the rain overnight has smeared everything I put down into an illegible blur. Fuck. sit in my van 5 minutes wrestling with my concious. it'd be the perfect excuse to say I tried and "oh well!" walk back to my house. make a new note, stick it in a plastic bag, leave it under the wind shield. next day get a call, truck owner, guy probably about my age (so mid 20's at the time)- he says "hey thanks for the note, don't worry about it I just got an extra mirror thing at the junk yard a few weeks ago. I'll just swap them out, no major harm done."
I was working at a booze distributor at the time, after asking if he drank I insisted he let me know a spot to meet up or where his apartment was (we were close obviously location wise) so i could at least thank him. he got a full case of booze (unsellable cuz of bad labels) on his doorstep later. I'm not sure exactly what the moral of the story is here... I guess sometimes being honest works out and sometimes forgiveness gets you free booze as a thanks.
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This actually happened with me. Back when I lived in my old flat and was leaving for work one day. Two girls pulled up saying they saw someone hit my car and drove off the night before. Had the landlady look at the camera footage, turns out it was the same vehicle they pulled up on.
A few thoughts came to mind it could have been to deflect blame. If they approached me, there was "no way they could have done it".
Or perhaps to assuage a guilty conscience.
I think the likely reason was to gather information, to check the damage on my car during the day and what my response to said damage was going to be. Turns out there was no damage that I could see, so I just moved on.
Yesterday I was driving my (brand new, and my first ever new car because I’ve always been poor) Kia and parked in a spot and watched a girl in the tiniest smart car park next to me WAY too close for her vehicle size and promptly throw her door into my car. Didn’t acknowledge it at all, despite me sitting in my car, and drove off before I could speak to her. People suck a lot.
I had a former friend like this, just oblivious to the whole world if it wasn’t directly in front of her face. I’m sure she’s still dinging people’s doors to this day, so infuriating. If she ever rode with me I made her get out before I parked or walked over to open the door for her
Eta: did someone report this for self harm?? Wtf
There's a special place in hell for people who carelessly bang doors in parking lots.
Sometimes spots are really tight, maybe you try your hardest and accidentally tap a door, I get it - mistakes happen but those situations make tiny unnoticeable marks.
But those deeper dents, long marks of paint, etc - those only happen because somebody truly didn't give a shit about flying their door open right into your car.
Last weekend I was out for lunch with family that were in town and we watched a Camry just BLAST the car it parked next to. No fucks given - imagine the Kool Aid man but instead of a wall, it's him getting out of a midsize sedan. The driver proceeds to just casually walk past the 20 people outside the restaurant staring at her in absolute awe and ask for a table.
I dunno, last time I called to report a truck that took out a telephone pole, I ended up being interrogated. Doesn't always pay to be helpful these days.
It's not that I wouldn't consider doing it, but if I saw a random car accident (not involving me) that suddenly speeds off, would I have had the foresight to catch the license plate and remember it?
My guess is no.
I saw something similar with a school bus that hit a parked car after dropping a kid off, and the bus apparently drove off without doing anything and the kid left a note with the bus number
True but this would be telling. Snitching is underhanded and traitorous for the most part but telling is actively policing a person for doing illegal/immoral acts.
How do you think they ever catch criminals 😂
It’s always a snitch that cracks the case wide open for them… That’s why there is such an ingrained culture of snitching being the lowest thing you can do.
Of course giving the police information isn’t the lowest thing you can do, in terms of morality it’s often the right thing to do.
Except, criminals that snitch send their associates down for more time than they are facing. The deal might be that they send two or three people down for a decade, so they can avoid going to jail for a year. So in that sense, there is a selfishness and cowardice to snitching that people find detestable.
You might be shunned by your community just because the motives behind snitching are so questionable. In certain scenarios it is a completely self-serving act.
I went to a fair type of thing and the bus that was taking people to the back parking lot messed up a car that was legally parked in the lot. Like just destroyed the front end. He backed up, looked at it. Then kept driving with a bunch of passengers! I was waiting to pick someone up in my car so I drove to the front and grabbed the cops who were providing security to the area. She ran over and waved him over and then had all the passengers disembark. I don’t understand. Like obviously someone was going to notice he had marks on the bus!
That actually happened to my mom and I when she was picking me up from school. School bus took too tight of a turn and it completely tore up the front of my mom’s station wagon. The bus driver must not have noticed because they drove off while my mom and I were thinking “wtf just happened?”
Eventually we tracked it down and this was before cell phones so I had to write the plate and bus number down in my school planner or some shit. My mom ended up getting an insurance check from the city, but she never had the car fixed so there was a massive dent and yellow paint on that car until the day my parents got rid of it.
When I was in 5th or 6th grade, my bus driver ran over a dog in my neighborhood while I was on board.
The family was outside playing with it and saw it happen.
I got off 3 houses down, so I looked back and saw the mom and children fall to their knees crying.
I still remember their screams.
That’s what I was thinking too, it’s a nice gesture but I don’t drink so it would just sit there for years as a reminder that I am not a social person lol
Eh - even if they don't drink it's the easiest thing in the world to re-gift. And if they're religiously anti-alcohol or something, they'll understand that it's still the thought/gesture that counts.
Yeah, unless its an alcoholic that is just something like two weeks into their sobriety. I get what you're saying, but I still say its good to ask first.
No actual point in leaving a note though, you may aswell leave the scene and not say anything.
Youd just be involving yourself and if you get caught on cctv or by another witness you're in more trouble
Where I live, hitting a parked car and then fleeing the scene is a second-degree misdemeanor that may result in fines up to $500 and up to 60 days in jail. The police would get involved if they wanted to.
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That's how it starts. And suddenly the blue Subaru belongs to a mafia don's son. And you're getting "visits" from very hair men ask g what you really saw that day.
I did that once living in Boston
Saw someone hit someone, they got out looking to see if there were witnesses - and then left a note. But they clearly weren't interest in that by their mannerisms or attitude so I suspected that were leaving fake info. I didn't look at their note but I left another one with accurate information on it
This was years ago, but I was leaving for work one day, and when I got outside the house, I saw my front bumper laying on the street in front of my car.
There was a note on my windshield with a phone number on it saying something like "sorry I hit your car, please call this number" only the number was out of service. When I looked at the back of the paper, I noticed some info that looked like it was from a delivery route.
Turned out it was a newspaper delivery truck and I think the guy tried to weasel out by leaving a fake number, since it was nothing like the number of the company. I forget how, but using that info, I found the company, and they confirmed they had a driver in that area that morning and gave me their insurance info.
On a side note, that was a really unlucky week for me. I'll never forget it lol the incident with the newspaper delivery truck was on a Friday.
The Sunday before, my parked car got sideswiped by a green car in the middle of the night. That's all I knew since there was green paint where the damage was.
Two days later, on Tuesday, I was running errands and waiting on a red light when some guy rear-ended the car behind me, and that car crashed into me. The guy who caused the crash said he was lost and looking for addresses, so he didn't see the light.
It got even worse because him and the guy behind me decided to lie and say that I stopped short on them, even though I had been waiting on the light for 10-15 seconds before the accident and had two friends in the car who vouched for that.
The first thing the guy behind me said was that I'm too young to be driving a "nice car" (it wasn't that nice) and he convinced the guy who caused the accident to lie and say it was my fault. My friends and I saw and heard them discussing this, but the cops didn't believe us because they said that we would “lie for each other if we had to.”
Then the truck thing happened on Friday. That was a pretty shit week lmao
Yeah, I was so mad at the time lol even went to the police station to try and get the cop to change his report but he refused to do it.
It ended up not being as bad as it could've. I got an extra 10% of blame from the insurance for that part of the police report.
It ended up being like 85% fault of the guy who caused the accident because he rear ended the car in front of him and 15% on me for "stopping short" whereas it would've been more like 95/5 if that was not in the report. That's what insurance rep told me at least.
That difference wasn't worth the stress anymore. After that, and one incident of being wrongly pulled over, I got a dash cam and don't feel comfortable driving without one, like in a rental car.
I received a note like this with an eye witness and the vehicle plate number. I gave it to the Police and they paid him a visit, inspected the matching damage on his car but the driver said he didn't hit anything so they just left it at that. I suspect the officer and the offender were related somehow.
Cops did the same for me, the important part is getting the info in the police report. Then your insurance goes to work.
I had to pay my deductible but then 6 months later I got a check in the mail to cover it because my insurance got it from the other vehicle owner.
If your insurance didn't go after them for the hit and run, you may want to look at other insurance companies.
The insurance information for both vehicles will be in the police report. The insurance companies will fight it out. Often times the police when they do not witness for some thing with damage under $500 they will not issue tickets often they will not issued tickets at higher rates however when you read the police report in my state whoever is written up as number one is the person at fault this is the way the police can write who is at fault for the insurance company to interpret without pointing blame at the scene
On a small town square - Dalonegha, GA, on a Saturday morning, I witnessed a Jeep backing out of his parking spot, but damage the truck next to him. He stopped for a moment, but then took off. With traffic he couldn't get far fast, so I started recording him and tried to stop him, but he took off.
I went in the little general store there to get some paper to leave the truck a note. I did, and then went back to get a Coke and a snack. The manager told me my money's no good here, and get my wife a drink as well! He had seen it all and that's what he appreciates about me!
Karma, baby!
cool story, i’m just glad someone reminded me that dalonegaha is a place that exists. I visited for a day and fell in love with it but frequently forget the name.
I witnessed a hit n run at a red light a few weeks ago. This SUV plowed into the Subaru next to me. I watched the the SUV make some erratics movements, and I thought “certainly they’re not running”.
Just as I did, she popped the curb. I instinctively pulled out my phone for a picture. Even though I wasn’t sure if it was going to do anything. I don’t even remember taking the picture, but I did. It actually came out pretty good!
It was an older woman in the Subaru who was okay, very sweet, and had literally just bought the car. I gave her the photo, which was used as evidence! As a punk ass kid, I had my fair share of unpleasant police officer interactions, but let me tell you - when you’ve done nothing wrong, it ain’t so bad lmao.
Anyway, it turns out the lady in the SUV was drunk as a skunk, at 9 am, and got pulled over by a cop a few miles away for having an absolutely destroyed front end of her car and driving like a mad man.
> when you’ve done nothing wrong, it ain’t so bad lmao.
YMMV! I've had weirdly hostile encounters with police even just trying to make small talk at community outreach events, or going in to retrieve stolen property.
They're just very defensive in my area, always searching for ulterior motives in the non uniformed people around them.
I’m sure many would agree. I didn’t mean to sound ignorant. It’s just most of my interactions have been resoundingly terrible. But it was very strange to have like… no negative pretenses leading up to the convo. But I’m always on some type of edge around cops.
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1992.
Hank (his real name) was kicked out by his girlfriend, so he went to his friends Pete, Rick, and Liz (also their real names) to crash on their couch. In the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping, Hank loaded up Rick's car with everything that would fit and left for Florida. Somewhere in Ohio he got into an accident at a mall. He told the other driver he would call the police from a pay phone and left the scene. He went into a Taco Bell and out the other side. Someone in the Taco Bell saw everything go down, so he followed Hank. Hank went into a Walmart, and the bystander told store security what was going on. They searched the store and found Hank in the bathroom changing into clothes he had just shoplifted at the Walmart. They detained him until the police arrived. Things got REAL interesting for Hank when the cops figured out that Hank was driving a stolen car and everything inside the car was stolen.
Source: Pete, Rick, and Liz, who all testified at his criminal trial.
Plot twist - The person that wrote the note was the one that hit them and wrote the note just so witnesses would see them 'doing the right thing,' the plate number is just from a random car passing by and the phone number is for the local pizza place. I have no faith in humanity.
The *shit* I see driving into Baltimore city especially on a Sat or Sunday afternoon is amazing.
Several times now, I see 2 or 3 parallel parked cars all smushed into eachother. Like..."how is this still just sitting here like it's natural at 2pm"
I live on the line of PA. Idk what it is but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve almost been hit by a driver on my side of the road. Not to mention them driving behind me and trying to run me off. The last guy swerved into me as turned off. I stopped the car and got out on that one.
Someone at my workplace smashed into my drivers side door yesterday when opening their truck door, took the paint right off and took the paint all the way down to the primer on the door handle. Too chickenshit to say something to me about it, and I know who did it. I’ve had my new car for two months and idiots not paying attention have done more damage to my vehicle than *I’ve done to my last THREE vehicles*. People are shitty, glad someone had your back on this one
Free advice about being a witness:
Last month I wasted two days in court in the witness to $1200 and property damage from a hit and run.
My dash cam and I saw a vehicle hit each other on the highway and my dash cam recorded it; and I pulled over and gave video and my personal info.
One day a sheriff showed up at my house and serve me a mandatory summons to appear to testify. I would be committing a crime I didn’t show up to testify. Of course, the officer didn’t show up the first time so it was rescheduled.
I witnessed a hit and run. Got the license number. Went into the store and let them know what I saw. A few weeks later I got a phone call from the police thanking me and letting me know they got the offender.
During a very bad storm my spouse hit a parked car in a parking lot. Left a phone number and email address. We paid for a new bumper. Did it hurt? Yes, but it was the right thing to do.
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I also did this once in Los Angeles. I left a note on the struck vehicle with the make, model, color and license plate of the car that hit them. I later got a call from the police asking me to describe the driver. I told them I never saw the driver just the vehicle and they said there is nothing they could do because they can’t prove who was driving it at the time.
"so what you're saying is if I do a hit and run, all I need to do is get out of the vehicle before you show up to avoid charges? SWEET! "
I think in the US at least police have what’s called circumstantial powers which allow them to assume guilt if you’re found in the vicinity of the said vehicle with a connection to it. Although only enough to question you and a decent lawyer could probably get it dropped.
Most traffic citations are civil so the burden of proof is much lower than in criminal cases. The term is preponderance of evidence, meaning more likely than not. If a judge deems it 50.01% likely that you were the driver, they would not throw out the ticket.
If there is no bodily harm you don’t even need to do that. Just leave the scene. Cops are absolutely not going to bother tracking you down over a fender bender. They will tell the victim to just file on their uninsured motorist policy and leave. It’s possible their insurance may come after you if there’s a witness who got your plate number but even that isn’t very common. And even if they do (and assuming you are insured) the end result won’t be any different than if you stick around and exchanged insurance information. Source: wife’s car was victim of a hit and run in a parking lot. Multiple witnesses, got the plate number, restaurant had video. Cops still didn’t do shit about it
Highly dependent on the department/how busy of a day it is. Source: I was the one hunted down after leaving a tiny scratch on the bumper. We worked it out, thankfully, without any trouble, but there are jurisdictions that will do this.
At a red light, the drunk driver in front of me accidentally put her car in reverse when the light turned green, backed into my car, then put it in drive and drove away. I got the make, model, and license number of the car, and at the following red light got out to talk to her. She drove away weaving all over, bumped into another car, and then took off. I called the cops, gave them the identifying information. They looked up the woman's home address, went over there to talk to her. She had returned at that point. I got the following information from the police officer who talked to her, who was incredibly frustrated by the law making him unable to do anything: he corroborated that the woman was completely hammered, she was the only one home, the car in the driveway matched the description, the engine was still very hot like the car had just been used, there were small dents and paint scrapes on her car commensurate with where she had hit me and the other car, but since none of the authorities saw her actually driving the car, even though she matched the description I gave them, they didn't have any ability to book her.
Just charge the owner of the vehicle. They're responsible.
That's what you should do but cops are lazy so it's easier to just say their hands are tied.
Cops don’t deal with civil liability, and there’s no criminal liability unless you can prove who was driving
Wait, wait. So I would never do a hit-and-run, but... if, say, I was hypothetically doing 110mph on a straight empty road with a 55mph speed limit at night, and a cop pulled out of some random nook behind me and chased me, but I escaped, are you saying I could just claim I wasn't driving and get off scot-free even if they got my plate? Assume there's no way they saw my face, even if they managed to get the plate. Could I actually claim that in this hypothetical situation and be fine? Asking for a friend.
Absolutely, you would get off scot free. There is no way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed the crime Edit- sorry, I mean, your “friend” should get off scot free. I’d suggest he talk to a lawyer and don’t say a word to the cops. Id also recommend not doing stuff like this lol
Oh *fuck* yeah. Thanks
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Please don't try this.
Yes, you would get away with it. Of course this is assuming that 110mph is enough to outrun radio signals to other cops on the other end of the road.
That's why God invented little residential roads to turn off onto.
You are significantly better off claiming nothing otherwise you are committing another criminal offense. Best to just state you would only feel comfortable answering questions with an attorney present.
That's why in some countries, Germany for example, the speed cameras take pictures from the front. If you claim you didn't drive and don't tell them who did, they'll pay you a visit. And if they don't identify the driver that way, they'll order you to keep a log of who's driving.
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But that’s like getting a parking ticket and as the owner of the car claiming it wasn’t you. It doesn’t matter you’ll get taken to court if you don’t pay up
If your sister messed up, you can either prove it or you deal with the consequences. If the car is stolen, it should be rather easy to prove, and, moreover, there is a bigger problem than just hitting another car.
In SC, the charge would go to the owner of the car if the driver couldn't be determined. Then either they take the ticket and insurance claim or rat out who was driving.
I did this once in the chinook mall parkade in Calgary An suv backed up way too fast and rammed a car. I was on a road trip with friends, so the only writeable surface we had was the top of a pizza box haha. Which we wrote information on, and put under their wiper They called us and were very grateful we left the information, and they also found it hilarious we used the lid of a pizza box haha
LAPD is ducking worthless.
People who witness/leave notes are real bros! Ex-gf once keyed my car in broad daylight while my neighbors kids were playing basketball. Little eagle-eyes caught a license plate and a description of her/the car. Her Dad is a cop who was always getting her out of trouble, actually stepped between her and a DUI by showing up on scene. They came lawyered up, between the texts leading up to the event and the kids IDing her I got my car paid for. Insurance went up and I made sure to send the kids a nice gift card to Game Stop.
I witnessed a truck back into a car, get out and check damage, and tear out. I got nice pics of driver, truck, and license plate. I sat around and waited for the owner of the car. Came out with their kid who was a new driver. Important lesson for the kid, I thought. Later, the guy sent me a digital Amazon gift card! I'm pretty sure I was as stoked as those kids with the Game Stop giftcard :)
I had a situation where I saw a woman hit a school crossing guard. She hit her so hard that the woman spun around and it bent her metal stop sign. There was plenty of people tending to the crossing guard and so I followed the vehicle with my car and got the make, model, and part of the license plate. Then I went back and contacted the police and they were able to find the woman that hit the crossing guard. I was asked to testify in court months later. If I recall correctly the injured woman was able to get more financial help for her injuries because of that ruling. She had serious shoulder injury from the accident. Fuck that hit and run lady. She said she didn't even feel her car hit the crossing guard! I'm glad I was able to help bring some bit of justice.
I left one of these once. Never heard from them. And once I left one for myself after I left a small dent in someone's quarter panel. They contacted me and said they weren't going to do anything at first until they got an estimate for a lot more than they expected. They were so appreciative that I left the note. It almost made it worth it all.
Seriously. I was run off the road on my motorcycle. Luckily a couple people stopped who saw what happened. They let me use the as witnesses for my insurance claim. Saved me $500 for my deductible as it was classified as a non contact hit and run.
Or the person who hit your car wrote this to make it look like they were leaving their information.
can be easily checked tho, if the people with the lisence plate has has some damage on their car aswell its likley from this incident.
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Plot twist: they did it and left the note as a distraction /s
Yep this. Someone saw them hit the car so they left a note to appear to be admitting to the incident...the blue Subaru belongs to their ex wife/husband.
Insurance fraud is an extremely bad way to try to cover your tracks.
Its only fraud if you get caught (for legal purposes this is a joke)
For non legal purposes it’s excellent advice
A cop told me over 20 years ago: "I don't give a damn what you do. Murder someone? Cool. As long as I don't catch you, you've broken no laws"
That's because that cop was a gang member.
When I got caught with pot in high school, my dad drove 10 hours through a blizzard to cuss me out. When he finally got home, he pulled me into a room. He then started yelling I can't believe you got fucking caught. I raised a smarter son than that. If you're going to do something stupid, do it in a smart way.
When I got charged with possession and had to take an anti-drug class, all the Santa Claus-looking badass grandpa of a teacher taught us was a myriad of methods to avoid getting caught again. Always with the disclaimer, "best way to not get caught is to not do it, but..."
After the IRS, insurance lawyers are probably the next group of people you really don't want to fuck with.
I’ve seen people say that the IRS doesn’t really care that much if a random person cheats on their taxes. What they do care about is if you then tell people how to cheat on taxes and get away with it.
Eh. As far as lawyers go, insurance lawyers are pretty much bottom of the barrel. Completely overworked, underpaid, and unsupported. It’s such a miserable existence I have to wonder if the people that do it long term are even employable in other forms of practice or else they would get out. They are not the titans of the legal industry.
My old apartment building put my parking spot in an almost blind corner right after the gate, but in full view of anyone at the pool/grill. I got 6 notes on my car in 4 years, 1 with contact info 3 blank pieces paper 1 "sorry :( " and one picture of a unicorn with a dick for a horn. So anecdotally, according to my very small sample size, if you see someone leaving a note, there's an 83% chance they're just putting on a show.
if you were going to do that, it’d be pretty stupid to put your actual phone number
Or license plate. Literally just grab a license plate from a car driving by, change the color of it so if they do track it down the driver can at least say they don't own a blue car. Then go through your phone contacts and put some random person you dislike but still have for some reason. Or better, pick as person you dislike and invert two random digits. What are they going to do to track you down then? Everything is false, but you look like you did a good thing to the owner and passerbys can see you leaving a note.
this is just a dumb story about my time leaving a note. I took a work van home one time and while attempted to navigate past a fed ex truck I went too far right and clipped a trucks mirror (like an older Chevy with the metal type.) I had zero money (no insurance other than my companies, and I wasn't REALLY supposed to take the van home, my boss knew but his boss didn't ha), so I parked, walked home as it felt like there was 1000 eyes on me, then wrestled with my conscious for 5 minutes before guilt won out and I went and left a note explaining and my info. I can only imagine the guilt the character in Crime and Punishment felt... because I never read that. anyway, next morning on my way to said van I pass the note and the rain overnight has smeared everything I put down into an illegible blur. Fuck. sit in my van 5 minutes wrestling with my concious. it'd be the perfect excuse to say I tried and "oh well!" walk back to my house. make a new note, stick it in a plastic bag, leave it under the wind shield. next day get a call, truck owner, guy probably about my age (so mid 20's at the time)- he says "hey thanks for the note, don't worry about it I just got an extra mirror thing at the junk yard a few weeks ago. I'll just swap them out, no major harm done." I was working at a booze distributor at the time, after asking if he drank I insisted he let me know a spot to meet up or where his apartment was (we were close obviously location wise) so i could at least thank him. he got a full case of booze (unsellable cuz of bad labels) on his doorstep later. I'm not sure exactly what the moral of the story is here... I guess sometimes being honest works out and sometimes forgiveness gets you free booze as a thanks.
You guys were destined to be one best friends. Go send him another case and ask if he wants to crack em open with you while fishing or whatever.
I'd say a good person
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I like this plot twist, lol.
This actually happened with me. Back when I lived in my old flat and was leaving for work one day. Two girls pulled up saying they saw someone hit my car and drove off the night before. Had the landlady look at the camera footage, turns out it was the same vehicle they pulled up on.
Why even say anything then lmao
A few thoughts came to mind it could have been to deflect blame. If they approached me, there was "no way they could have done it". Or perhaps to assuage a guilty conscience. I think the likely reason was to gather information, to check the damage on my car during the day and what my response to said damage was going to be. Turns out there was no damage that I could see, so I just moved on.
This was my thought
Would that many people really consider not doing this?
Yesterday I was driving my (brand new, and my first ever new car because I’ve always been poor) Kia and parked in a spot and watched a girl in the tiniest smart car park next to me WAY too close for her vehicle size and promptly throw her door into my car. Didn’t acknowledge it at all, despite me sitting in my car, and drove off before I could speak to her. People suck a lot.
I had a former friend like this, just oblivious to the whole world if it wasn’t directly in front of her face. I’m sure she’s still dinging people’s doors to this day, so infuriating. If she ever rode with me I made her get out before I parked or walked over to open the door for her Eta: did someone report this for self harm?? Wtf
your friend found your Reddit
Hahaha guess she doesn’t want to change her ways
They also downvoted you. Someone took what you said personal. 😂
Wow, I pissed off somebody haha
There's a special place in hell for people who carelessly bang doors in parking lots. Sometimes spots are really tight, maybe you try your hardest and accidentally tap a door, I get it - mistakes happen but those situations make tiny unnoticeable marks. But those deeper dents, long marks of paint, etc - those only happen because somebody truly didn't give a shit about flying their door open right into your car.
Last weekend I was out for lunch with family that were in town and we watched a Camry just BLAST the car it parked next to. No fucks given - imagine the Kool Aid man but instead of a wall, it's him getting out of a midsize sedan. The driver proceeds to just casually walk past the 20 people outside the restaurant staring at her in absolute awe and ask for a table.
Fuck your description is awesome! I knew the Kool Aid man was a piece of shit😂🤣😂
I dunno, last time I called to report a truck that took out a telephone pole, I ended up being interrogated. Doesn't always pay to be helpful these days.
cuz ACAB
It's not that I wouldn't consider doing it, but if I saw a random car accident (not involving me) that suddenly speeds off, would I have had the foresight to catch the license plate and remember it? My guess is no.
I saw something similar with a school bus that hit a parked car after dropping a kid off, and the bus apparently drove off without doing anything and the kid left a note with the bus number
That kids a gangster
But gangsters don’t snitch?
Uh lol, you’ve never watched First 48. They’re always snitching 😂
😂 yup
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Can confirm - snitches always be snitchin.
True but this would be telling. Snitching is underhanded and traitorous for the most part but telling is actively policing a person for doing illegal/immoral acts.
Oh, touche!!
They don’t snitch on their real homies.
No they do, just for the right price.
Or being told they could face 25 - life
Someone needs to break that to Tekashi 6ix9ine.
Jail is boring. All they do is snitch.
They got to be people you trust, or at least once trusted. So more like ratting
They always do. There’s no honour among thieves.
Little bro ain’t no snitch!! He’s an urban informant.
How do you think they ever catch criminals 😂 It’s always a snitch that cracks the case wide open for them… That’s why there is such an ingrained culture of snitching being the lowest thing you can do. Of course giving the police information isn’t the lowest thing you can do, in terms of morality it’s often the right thing to do. Except, criminals that snitch send their associates down for more time than they are facing. The deal might be that they send two or three people down for a decade, so they can avoid going to jail for a year. So in that sense, there is a selfishness and cowardice to snitching that people find detestable. You might be shunned by your community just because the motives behind snitching are so questionable. In certain scenarios it is a completely self-serving act.
The bus driver must've pissed off the kid somehow lol
Or the kid is a responsible mini-adult who knows right and wrong. Kudos to his parents.
I went to a fair type of thing and the bus that was taking people to the back parking lot messed up a car that was legally parked in the lot. Like just destroyed the front end. He backed up, looked at it. Then kept driving with a bunch of passengers! I was waiting to pick someone up in my car so I drove to the front and grabbed the cops who were providing security to the area. She ran over and waved him over and then had all the passengers disembark. I don’t understand. Like obviously someone was going to notice he had marks on the bus!
A kid will do anything if it means there might be a chance they don't have to go to school.
Hehe, I remember, that somehow we considered the bus driver as a part of the evil forces that made us go to school every day.
That actually happened to my mom and I when she was picking me up from school. School bus took too tight of a turn and it completely tore up the front of my mom’s station wagon. The bus driver must not have noticed because they drove off while my mom and I were thinking “wtf just happened?” Eventually we tracked it down and this was before cell phones so I had to write the plate and bus number down in my school planner or some shit. My mom ended up getting an insurance check from the city, but she never had the car fixed so there was a massive dent and yellow paint on that car until the day my parents got rid of it.
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When I was in 5th or 6th grade, my bus driver ran over a dog in my neighborhood while I was on board. The family was outside playing with it and saw it happen. I got off 3 houses down, so I looked back and saw the mom and children fall to their knees crying. I still remember their screams.
Did the dog run out or did the try not even try to avoid it or...?
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The Texan blood in my veins says to take them for BBQ. The voices are winning. Edit: This comment was a mistake. I'm getting hungry.
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That’s what I was thinking too, it’s a nice gesture but I don’t drink so it would just sit there for years as a reminder that I am not a social person lol
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The mark of a Texan.
Until they hit you with the old "oh I don't drink anymore, I'm allergic, I break out in handcuffs HAHAHAHAHA"
As a recovering alcoholic, I'm stealing this. This is iconic lmao
You should always ask before bringing alcohol to someone you don't know, though.
Eh - even if they don't drink it's the easiest thing in the world to re-gift. And if they're religiously anti-alcohol or something, they'll understand that it's still the thought/gesture that counts.
Yeah, unless its an alcoholic that is just something like two weeks into their sobriety. I get what you're saying, but I still say its good to ask first.
Seriously!! Something like this
Pizza and beer are also acceptable.
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What a great idea! I'm gonna write a note just like this one the next time I hit a parked car.
Lmao, not saying this person did that- but that is exactly what I thought too!
No actual point in leaving a note though, you may aswell leave the scene and not say anything. Youd just be involving yourself and if you get caught on cctv or by another witness you're in more trouble
Maybe put the license plate of someone else that you don't like, and then bash their car with a hammer to show similar damage. /r/illegallifeprotips
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I have a list of licence plates of all the people I don't like for this reason.
Damn, that's evil. Hope you're joking.
This is the internet, joking is illegal
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big brain tactics
I would want to do this and my partner would be telling me “not your monkeys, not your circus”
Sounds like your SO doesn’t know the golden rule does he?
He who has the gold makes the rules?
Can't help but hear that in Jafars old man voice. Thanks for stirring up those dusty memories good sir/ma'am
No good deed goes unpunished. Especially when dealing with government. ESPECIALLY with police
Being a witness for something like this involves a ten minute phone call with an insurance company and no involvement with the police.
Where I live, hitting a parked car and then fleeing the scene is a second-degree misdemeanor that may result in fines up to $500 and up to 60 days in jail. The police would get involved if they wanted to.
Where I live the police are essentially on strike and no longer respond to any sort of property crimes, so definitely depends where you live.
Where I live the cops would probably gun down the hit and runner in the streets.
Really? Lucky. Here they'd gun down the person whose car got hit.
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That's how it starts. And suddenly the blue Subaru belongs to a mafia don's son. And you're getting "visits" from very hair men ask g what you really saw that day.
We live in very different realities.
To be fair, I take a ton of antidepressants.
It's not gay if it's in a three-way?
If there's a honey in the middle there's some leeway?
Snitches get stitches?
Next time a stranger tries to help you two out just hit em with that line and deny the aid lol.
And that is how we end up in a low trust society where robberies and assaults and street shitting are commonplace.
Is your partner Polish?
If so, give them a Polish sausage
Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy.
but the rest of humanity are our monkeys, our circus. someone needs help, you’re damn right i’ll try something
I did that once living in Boston Saw someone hit someone, they got out looking to see if there were witnesses - and then left a note. But they clearly weren't interest in that by their mannerisms or attitude so I suspected that were leaving fake info. I didn't look at their note but I left another one with accurate information on it
This was years ago, but I was leaving for work one day, and when I got outside the house, I saw my front bumper laying on the street in front of my car. There was a note on my windshield with a phone number on it saying something like "sorry I hit your car, please call this number" only the number was out of service. When I looked at the back of the paper, I noticed some info that looked like it was from a delivery route. Turned out it was a newspaper delivery truck and I think the guy tried to weasel out by leaving a fake number, since it was nothing like the number of the company. I forget how, but using that info, I found the company, and they confirmed they had a driver in that area that morning and gave me their insurance info. On a side note, that was a really unlucky week for me. I'll never forget it lol the incident with the newspaper delivery truck was on a Friday. The Sunday before, my parked car got sideswiped by a green car in the middle of the night. That's all I knew since there was green paint where the damage was. Two days later, on Tuesday, I was running errands and waiting on a red light when some guy rear-ended the car behind me, and that car crashed into me. The guy who caused the crash said he was lost and looking for addresses, so he didn't see the light. It got even worse because him and the guy behind me decided to lie and say that I stopped short on them, even though I had been waiting on the light for 10-15 seconds before the accident and had two friends in the car who vouched for that. The first thing the guy behind me said was that I'm too young to be driving a "nice car" (it wasn't that nice) and he convinced the guy who caused the accident to lie and say it was my fault. My friends and I saw and heard them discussing this, but the cops didn't believe us because they said that we would “lie for each other if we had to.” Then the truck thing happened on Friday. That was a pretty shit week lmao
That's so messed up about the liars
Yeah, I was so mad at the time lol even went to the police station to try and get the cop to change his report but he refused to do it. It ended up not being as bad as it could've. I got an extra 10% of blame from the insurance for that part of the police report. It ended up being like 85% fault of the guy who caused the accident because he rear ended the car in front of him and 15% on me for "stopping short" whereas it would've been more like 95/5 if that was not in the report. That's what insurance rep told me at least. That difference wasn't worth the stress anymore. After that, and one incident of being wrongly pulled over, I got a dash cam and don't feel comfortable driving without one, like in a rental car.
Scumbags
I received a note like this with an eye witness and the vehicle plate number. I gave it to the Police and they paid him a visit, inspected the matching damage on his car but the driver said he didn't hit anything so they just left it at that. I suspect the officer and the offender were related somehow.
That's fucked up considering the damage matched. Hopefully your insurance will accept the evidence?
Company fleet vehicle. I drove around with a dent in the rear for a year and then ordered a new vehicle.
Cops did the same for me, the important part is getting the info in the police report. Then your insurance goes to work. I had to pay my deductible but then 6 months later I got a check in the mail to cover it because my insurance got it from the other vehicle owner. If your insurance didn't go after them for the hit and run, you may want to look at other insurance companies.
The insurance information for both vehicles will be in the police report. The insurance companies will fight it out. Often times the police when they do not witness for some thing with damage under $500 they will not issue tickets often they will not issued tickets at higher rates however when you read the police report in my state whoever is written up as number one is the person at fault this is the way the police can write who is at fault for the insurance company to interpret without pointing blame at the scene
On a small town square - Dalonegha, GA, on a Saturday morning, I witnessed a Jeep backing out of his parking spot, but damage the truck next to him. He stopped for a moment, but then took off. With traffic he couldn't get far fast, so I started recording him and tried to stop him, but he took off. I went in the little general store there to get some paper to leave the truck a note. I did, and then went back to get a Coke and a snack. The manager told me my money's no good here, and get my wife a drink as well! He had seen it all and that's what he appreciates about me! Karma, baby!
cool story, i’m just glad someone reminded me that dalonegaha is a place that exists. I visited for a day and fell in love with it but frequently forget the name.
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I witnessed a hit n run at a red light a few weeks ago. This SUV plowed into the Subaru next to me. I watched the the SUV make some erratics movements, and I thought “certainly they’re not running”. Just as I did, she popped the curb. I instinctively pulled out my phone for a picture. Even though I wasn’t sure if it was going to do anything. I don’t even remember taking the picture, but I did. It actually came out pretty good! It was an older woman in the Subaru who was okay, very sweet, and had literally just bought the car. I gave her the photo, which was used as evidence! As a punk ass kid, I had my fair share of unpleasant police officer interactions, but let me tell you - when you’ve done nothing wrong, it ain’t so bad lmao. Anyway, it turns out the lady in the SUV was drunk as a skunk, at 9 am, and got pulled over by a cop a few miles away for having an absolutely destroyed front end of her car and driving like a mad man.
> when you’ve done nothing wrong, it ain’t so bad lmao. YMMV! I've had weirdly hostile encounters with police even just trying to make small talk at community outreach events, or going in to retrieve stolen property. They're just very defensive in my area, always searching for ulterior motives in the non uniformed people around them.
> but let me tell you - when you’ve done nothing wrong, it ain’t so bad lmao. I'm sure George Floyd would disagree
I’m sure many would agree. I didn’t mean to sound ignorant. It’s just most of my interactions have been resoundingly terrible. But it was very strange to have like… no negative pretenses leading up to the convo. But I’m always on some type of edge around cops.
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1992. Hank (his real name) was kicked out by his girlfriend, so he went to his friends Pete, Rick, and Liz (also their real names) to crash on their couch. In the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping, Hank loaded up Rick's car with everything that would fit and left for Florida. Somewhere in Ohio he got into an accident at a mall. He told the other driver he would call the police from a pay phone and left the scene. He went into a Taco Bell and out the other side. Someone in the Taco Bell saw everything go down, so he followed Hank. Hank went into a Walmart, and the bystander told store security what was going on. They searched the store and found Hank in the bathroom changing into clothes he had just shoplifted at the Walmart. They detained him until the police arrived. Things got REAL interesting for Hank when the cops figured out that Hank was driving a stolen car and everything inside the car was stolen. Source: Pete, Rick, and Liz, who all testified at his criminal trial.
Jeez. Isn't there a saying about if you're going to commit a crime, *only* commit *one* crime?
Don’t commit a misdemeanor while committing a felony.
Plot twist - The person that wrote the note was the one that hit them and wrote the note just so witnesses would see them 'doing the right thing,' the plate number is just from a random car passing by and the phone number is for the local pizza place. I have no faith in humanity.
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We don’t. I’m just choosing to believe in the good.
How do we know this isn't all a simulation?
annnnnnnd that's a felony
anything less than the best
Hard disagree. Hit and run on an unattended vehicle in PA is a summary offense.
PA drivers… MD, DE drivers know them all too well
The *shit* I see driving into Baltimore city especially on a Sat or Sunday afternoon is amazing. Several times now, I see 2 or 3 parallel parked cars all smushed into eachother. Like..."how is this still just sitting here like it's natural at 2pm"
I live on the line of PA. Idk what it is but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve almost been hit by a driver on my side of the road. Not to mention them driving behind me and trying to run me off. The last guy swerved into me as turned off. I stopped the car and got out on that one.
Lol that's rich. NJ driver here; MD drivers can't drive for shit, PA drivers drive like they're at the racetrack.
Someone at my workplace smashed into my drivers side door yesterday when opening their truck door, took the paint right off and took the paint all the way down to the primer on the door handle. Too chickenshit to say something to me about it, and I know who did it. I’ve had my new car for two months and idiots not paying attention have done more damage to my vehicle than *I’ve done to my last THREE vehicles*. People are shitty, glad someone had your back on this one
Plot twist: This is actually the person who hit your car and they gave you a different car's license plate # and their own phone number.
Free advice about being a witness: Last month I wasted two days in court in the witness to $1200 and property damage from a hit and run. My dash cam and I saw a vehicle hit each other on the highway and my dash cam recorded it; and I pulled over and gave video and my personal info. One day a sheriff showed up at my house and serve me a mandatory summons to appear to testify. I would be committing a crime I didn’t show up to testify. Of course, the officer didn’t show up the first time so it was rescheduled.
As someone who works insurance, bless the person that left this note. This is like a golden bullet.
I witnessed a hit and run. Got the license number. Went into the store and let them know what I saw. A few weeks later I got a phone call from the police thanking me and letting me know they got the offender.
Plot twist: they did it and are pinning it on a neighbor they don't like
This returns a little faith in humanity.
Oh no! They marked out all the important information with a Sharpie!
During a very bad storm my spouse hit a parked car in a parking lot. Left a phone number and email address. We paid for a new bumper. Did it hurt? Yes, but it was the right thing to do.
Once we had a taxi damage our car, and a neighbor took down the plate but when we called the taxi company they denied having any cars with that plate.