If someone almost causes you to wreck or makes some kind of illegal act, can you get their license plate number, and call the police? Or take their license plate number to the police station and file a report against them? Someone almost made me wreck by pulling in front of me when we were at the stop light. I was pulling up to the red light, and someone almost made me run into and over the curb, because they decided they wanted to try to jump in my lane.
2006-09-13 07:35:56 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
You can either call 911 at the time and document everything and give the details to an officer when they show up. When you call 911 you need to say you want to speak to an officer about some who is driving reckless and dangerously.
The other thing you can do is, go to the police station document the incident with all the details, like, time, date, license plate number, description of driver, etc.
I'm not sure if you can file charges or not, but the officers should be able to let you know what your legal rights are. Legal issues vary from state to state and between towns & counties as well.
2006-09-13 07:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by Erica, AKA Stretch 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The city is responsible because they made the fire fighters participate in the parade. As you pointed out they were told to my their Superior. They were clearly participating in the parade and not providing any type of special duty, again making the city responsible. They were right in following the order given to them. If they volunteered to work some special duty and they got harasses, that was their decision to work it and the city would not be responsible at that point. I agree with their lawsuit. As for the other posters who say the city is not responsible, but the ones who were taunting the fire fighters, you are wrong. The firefighters did not volunteer to be in the parade, they were told to do it by a supervisor. The order given is not unlawful, so they had to comply. Now, if they CHOSE to be in the parade, then th city would not be responsible for the harassment. Also, think about this. A cop gets into a vehicle pursuit with another vehicle. The other vehicle chooses not to stop at a stop sign and runs the intersection, hitting and killing another motorist. Why does the victims family sue the police department and not the driver? It's not the police departments fault the driver decided to run from the police and not stop, why are the cops being sued?
2016-03-26 23:29:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can file a report, having the license number will help a lot. The police cant do anything about it if no laws were broken, but it will go worse on that person if the police catch him doing the same thing with this report on file.
2006-09-13 07:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by roamin70 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, sorry. There was no property damage or bodily injury. You would not have a cause of action, except for negligent infliction of emotional distress. But "emotional distress" in legal terms means more than you were "upset." It means psychiatric treatment, hospital bills, loss of income due to your emotional distress, etc.
If you ever see that car parked somewhere, you could put an anonymous note on the windshield expressing in no uncertain terms what you think of jerks that endanger other human life with their idiotic and arrogant driving habits.
2006-09-13 07:48:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Police have to witness that kind of thing. Otherwise, everybody that ticked off someone driving would be arrested. You can call the police when something like that, or someone's driving recklessly-and it's in the process of going on. Maybe a cop will be nearby and be able to witness them in the act. Unfortunately, that's usually not the case.
2006-09-13 07:40:14 · answer #5 · answered by tikitiki 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i'm not sure if this is covered unless they actually caused a wreck then yes, you can contact the police. if their are other drivers committing road rage, harassing others, drunk driving, racing, speeding or driving erratically, absolutely you can get their plate number and call it in.
btw i know someone who caused an accident by their driving, they weren't being aggressive just stupid and they were charged with causing an accident and they were held accountable by the victims and their insurance companies.
2006-09-13 07:40:07 · answer #6 · answered by oopsy - daisy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can make a complaint over almost anything, this is one of them. But is it really worth it? You're really just wasting yours and the officer time. If the same person does it repeatedly then I can see it but some people are just jerks and bad drivers. That's why they teach defensive driving.
2006-09-14 00:34:52 · answer #7 · answered by Mike 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you run into and over the curb? Was there damage to your vehicle? Then probably not.
Unless there were witnesses (and lives were in danger) or a cop was there to pull the guy over for reckless driving, you're out of luck.
2006-09-13 07:39:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You could try suing them in civil court, if you can come up with a legal theory that supports your claim. But without actual damages, what do you expect to get from the lawsuit?
2006-09-13 07:38:13 · answer #9 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same thing happend to me. Do you know what the cops did? Absolutely nothing! I just had to pay to have my car realligned after I hit the curb ($60) because there was no "visible damage".
2006-09-13 07:46:25 · answer #10 · answered by volt19 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋