Lancs Lad Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Some scum bag rear ended me the other day, wife and little uns in the car..........Only a gentle "shove" but they have cracked the rear bumper of me car. Guy gave me name address, reg, phone number - but the letter for his insurance details came back as "moved out 7 months ago" and it looks like his car is uninsured after work has done a check on the MID. Anyway that I can track this ******** down from his reg, moblie phone number.............. PMs most greatly appreciated........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidibear Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Probably a violation of the data protection act to even ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Its an offence for driver(s) not to swap details in the event of an RTA or damage to vehicles while parking etc. Give the details that you do have, to the police, with an explanation. Best bet of sorting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Had a similar thing myself, told the fuzz they let me know that she had insurance as the named driver but couldn`t give details as there was a second, innocent, party and if I had been or anyone else in my car INJURED then they could have pursued it(whiplash can take 24hrs to set in). Eventually the insurance firms legal section tracked her down, but I`d phoned her a couple of times too on her mobile, which may have helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 YHPM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 I know of quite a few police officers who have lost their jobs for doing what you have asked. However if you go to the station and report the offences then they will investigate it and do the work for you. Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 You can obtain the details for a small fee from DVLA, because it involves an accident. Mobile numbers are not easily traced and any Police personnel parting with details from the PNC, as a favour, would not remain in the Police for very long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 IMHO you probably won't get any joy. If the car is un insured odds are its probably not registered to the correct address. No policeman on here will be able to help but as said report it. Mobile wise depends if its pay as you go or contract but I'd not like your chances he's given you the right number Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodmedod.one Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 I know of quite a few police officers who have lost their jobs for doing what you have asked.However if you go to the station and report the offences then they will investigate it and do the work for you. Harry My son got punted up the rear end in Leicestershire. By coincidence the kid who did it lived in Norfolk as we do. They exchanged details and we found out a few days later that the kid has no licence, insurance or MOT. We reported it to Leicestershire Police and to Norfolk Police as the kid was back driving around Norfolk. My son did have an independent witness. Leicestershire did eventually prosecute him and he never turned up for Court. The last we heard was that they had a warrant out for his arrest. They didn't have the manners to let us know if the matter ever progressed. Norfolk pigs didn't want to know. I was told in King's Lynn Police Station that they were too busy to try to catch people for that type of driving offence. I always thought no Insurance, Licence or MOT was quite serious. Lazy, fat useless, pie eating wastes of space that I have to pay taxes for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vole Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 My Sis in law had the side of her car stoved in and nearly killed on the M60 right under the nose of a cctv camera. The police refused point blank to check the footage to trace the driver,they prefer to use cctv to trace your honest working types doing 80 mph for the revenue. Dont expect too much mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph5172 Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 If the accident is reported to both Police and Insurance then the insurance legal team will track down if they have insurance and go direct to them (all insurance details are on a computer in the sky) even if they have moved no admission of liability or not means their insurance company ill pay out. If they are not insured your company should pay out and you should be no worse off (the uninsured drivers pot) The details will then be entered on the PNC and ANPR systems as no insurance so when any traffic car passes that registration it will set off an alarm in the car alerting that there is no insurance / tax / mot/ DD and the like. PS, my bumper got cracked by the boss reversing into it .... £800 to fix. so you may want to let the insurance deal with it (unless you can live with a crack in your bumper) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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