Halesowen kit car accident

[CosKev]

https://m.facebook.com/colin.walker.39/posts/10211894569352957

Hopefully no one off here?

If so the registration is in that pic above if they didn't manage to get it as it drove off.

Car in the pic above is insured but not been taxed since March,so probably the reason it drove off

[CosKev]

[BenD]

do you know what the kit car was kev

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

I've seen the FB post too, but there seems to be no detail of the kit at the moment.

Fingers crossed whoever it is, and whatever kit they own, that they weren't hurt in the accident.

[CraigHew]

My good citizen act would be to pop into the local plod cabin and formally inform them with the evidence

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

11 minutes ago, CraigHew said:

My good citizen act would be to pop into the local plod cabin and formally inform them with the evidence

He'll probably get a better response of FB than with Plod!

 

[Rhett Turner - Black Country AO]

If was opposite where my son was just finishing work. He told me about it when he got home. the car was an Exocet and it basically took the rear wheel off the kit car, he stopped and helped the driver get the car onto a recovery truck. To get it on the truck they had to finish removing the wheel which was more or less only held on by a partially severed brake line. 

Not only did they have the image of the offending car taken by the good Samaritan but CCTV from street bike when the spoke to the police they were not bothered. 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Many, many years ago, at Universtiy in fact, a mate of mine on the course was an ex copper, (mature student); we'd had those sort of "how do you get the police to attend when they can't be bothered" conversations. I so wish I could remember it now, I did write it down, but this was decades before the Cloud and un-loseable information, but he taught me a short couple of paragraphs to say, if phoning up to report something, that guaranteed they'd have to attend, but also most importantly, didn't land you in the poo. (It was some collection of trigger words/expressions that basically went straight to the top of the CAD rooms urgent priority list! And that couldn't be ignored).

In these days of zero attendance, here's your crime number situations, it would have been so damned handy.

 

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

3 minutes ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary said:

Many, many years ago, at Universtiy in fact, a mate of mine on the course was an ex copper, (mature student); we'd had those sort of "how do you get the police to attend when they can't be bothered" conversations. I so wish I could remember it now, I did write it down, but this was decades before the Cloud and un-loseable information, but he taught me a short couple of paragraphs to say, if phoning up to report something, that guaranteed they'd have to attend, but also most importantly, didn't land you in the poo. (It was some collection of trigger words/expressions that basically went straight to the top of the CAD rooms urgent priority list! And that couldn't be ignored).

In these days of zero attendance, here's your crime number situations, it would have been so damned handy.

 

Usually if there is injury they will attend, else it's 'just a civil matter' and insurance co's will deal with it! However drive at 31mph on a clear road and you'll feel the full force of the law!

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

The accident is a civil matter, but leaving the scene used to be a road traffic offense. Though due consideration used to be given if you went and reported it yourself, even though you'd left the actual accident.

- similar happened to a Neighbour of mine, years ago. She had a minor prang, and the guy in the other car was going mental. She was scared of actual violence, so drove off, but reported it at the local Police Station later. Insurance details were effectively exchanged via the Police and the insurance companies, if I recall correctly.

[jeff oakley]

We need to keep making a fuss when we do not get the service we pay for.

I had a car stolen many years ago and the officer who came was apologetic that all he could do was give me a crime number and the usual platitudes. As he said your car is worth £15k and we give you a number, but if someone walks into a bank and takes £15k we will pull out all the stops. Both are insured yet one treated differently.

When I was burgled I tracked down the thief on Ebay, the police could have done the same but due to ever increasing cuts did not have the resource, she got a 150 hours community order. I do not blame the guy on the street I blame the politically motivated ladder climbers who tow the line whilst letting down the people they swore to protect.

I would bet the car involved is either stolen, uninsured, or driven by a drunk.

[CosKev]

8 hours ago, bunje said:

do you know what the kit car was kev

 

[CosKev]

Gutting the police were not interested 

Yet if any passers by had dragged him out of the car for a bit of justice they would soon be arrested and facing a Judge

 

[chris parkin]

Just playing the other side of the coin here.....

These facebook posts going viral so quickly are so much more effective than any police work in these situations. I'd argue they have probably realised this, spend their time on other things and let the evidence come to them. Of course you don't ever see if they do work, but I'd like to think they do!

[DonPeffers]

19 hours ago, chris parkin said:

Just playing the other side of the coin here.....

These facebook posts going viral so quickly are so much more effective than any police work in these situations. I'd argue they have probably realised this, spend their time on other things and let the evidence come to them. Of course you don't ever see if they do work, but I'd like to think they do!

Agree with Chris. There have been cases were Facebook posts have resulted in the crim handing him or herself in after seeing the evidence.