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Question (legal, and maybe moral too) from my SIL:
While starting to make a left turn, she was forced to stop suddenly. The car behind her hit her. After both turned, my SIL pulled over, but the other car refused and drove off. Turns out there was no damage to my SIL's car (I guess there's one advantage to having an SUV). Can/should she file a police report for hit-and-run? If there's no damage, is there anything to REPORT? Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I'd say yes, just in case the other idiot tries turning it around and say your SIL hit them
Though I'd say nay to reporting to insurance, especially if no damage.
Maybe a police report, just-in-case. Did she get a license plate # or any other indentifying info on the perp?
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Yes, she should report it. Did she get the license number?
There are two reasons: First, if she does this again, police will be more inclined to believe the next victim. Second, there may be damage that isn't apparant.
She also doesn't want the other person to report it as a hit and run - first one to report it is more credible for some reason.
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I heard that there needs to be damage of at least $400.00 for it to be considered as a hit and run, but I'm not a lawyer.
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She has a partial license plate and a description (sounds like the car was fairly distinctive).
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Ok, since there was no damage, they couldn't take a report. But they were quite willing to take a statement. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Cool. Assuming someone is not calling them every week, police generally would rather get a call about something if the caller has a doubt about whether to report it.
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