Hit and run?

Question

My friends see me as being wise and all knowing. Well, believe it or not I don't know everything. Here is the situation.

A friend of my friend was driving their car. She hits something and leaves the scene. She has insurance, but she wasn't driving her car. My friend who's car she was in this accident with also has insurance but he wasn't driving the car.

She wants to do the right thing. She wants to fix this. What would be the best way to go about getting this solved? I'm not sure what tell to him but I really don't want him waiting around to long. It's already been about 2 hours since the accident.

And no, no posted note was left. This is looking bad.

Answer 1

The correct thing to do is tell the person whose car it belongs what happened. Let the person also know who was driving their vehicle during the time of the accident. Have the person driving her vehicle at the time of the accident confess and pay for the damage done to her vehicle, because the owner of the vehicles insurance will no doubt go up if it's reported, especially now that it's been over two hours, not to mention the insurance company without a doubt will now forward that information to local authorities. And unfortunately, the owner of that vehicle involved in the hit and run will be held liable for damages not only to the other vehicle but anyone who may have suffered any injury during this hit and run. If no one saw the hit and run, it's best not to do anything at this point because if you return to the scene of the accident, the police will be called and the driver with-out a doubt will be cited for mulitple violations, and could be even halled off to jail. Tickets would be, "leaving the scene of an accident", Failure to report an accident", etc. Also remember in the future that if your in an accident and there is no one in the other vehicle, leave your information on the other vehicle that was hit, that way if anyone saw you , it's not like your hiding or trying to elude responsibility.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what the problem is here. She wants to do the "right thing"? Okay... she should report all required information to the party whos car she hit. Problem solved... everyone goes about there day.

Does she want to pay for the damage out of her pocket? See above information and then when the other person get's an estimate, she pays for the damage. Again, problem solved.

I'm not seeing the difficult party in this situation (perhaps I got REALLY smart over night..... naw).

Answer 3

Hit-and-run has severe legal consequences including the suspension or canceling of ones driver's license, as well as imprisonment.

Lifetime revocation of a driver license is possible in certain jurisdictions.

If someone saw this and reports it he will be in world of hurt, the best thing is to report now both to the police and insurance.

Good Luck

Answer 4

You've already violated the law, 'leaving the scene'. If someone saw it and turns you in you'll be in even deeper doo doo. Best to go fess up and pay up. The penalties will be a lot less if you turn yourself in than if they have to come get you.