"In the event of personal injury there's also a requirement to report the matter to the police"
Oh ?
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"The law requires that if you have been the driver of a motor vehicle on a road involved in an accident resulting in injury or damage to another person's property or involving some types of animals, you, the driver, must stop and if required by any person having reasonable grounds, provide your name and address, insurance company and name and address of the owner of the vehicle you are driving and its registration mark.
If you do not provide these details, for whatever reason, you must, as soon as possible, and in any event within twenty-four hours of the accident, report the incident to a police officer or at a police station. For full details of the legal requirements consult section 170 of the Road Traffic Act 1988"
Oh indeed - read that through and tell me where the compulsion to report an injury accident to the Police is shown if you comply with the exchanging details bit.
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Oh indeed - read that through and tell me where the compulsion to report an injury accident to the Police is shown if you comply with the exchanging details bit.
Pugugly, I agreed that you were right, and I retracted my earlier post, by saying "Oops!" before the link.
D'oh!
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if required by any person having reasonable grounds provide ------- If you do not provide these details for whatever reason you must ------.>>
Does the second part of this paragraph flow on from the first, or is it intended to be read entirely separately?
In other words, are you obliged to report to the police only if someone has already asked you to provide details but you have declined, or is it an absolute requirement to report even if no one at the time has asked for your details?
( I give a personal example. Someone ran into the back of my car at low speed. My car was undamaged, hers had a smashed grill and bumper. We stopped, had a few words, she said she was sorry, we drove off. She did not ask for my insurance details etc, I was not interested in hers. Should I have reported it to the police none the less?)
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In theory (don't try this at home boys and girls) - if you knock a pedestrian over and kill them as long as you tie a label to their big toe with the required details, you've complied with the requirment of the act. I repeat that's the theory, reality would probably dictate that you get nicked for something
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"reality would probably dictate that you get nicked for something"
The label might breake the litter law :-)
"A person is guilty of an offence if he throws down, drops or otherwise deposits any litter in any place to which this section applies and leaves it.?
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If someone were to bump my car but without injury to me and the driver gives me details then drives off quickly and I suspected him of being over the drink driving limit, what should I do ?
Would the police do anything ?
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Dial 999, ask for police.
give location, state you suspect someone of drink driving right now, give their vehicle details and direction they are heading.
you will be asked why you suspect this - give reasons - they bumped into you, very quick to give details and drive away, this also makes you wonder if the details given are correct...
This will ensure a police response (assuming there are any free units)
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