Multi-Million/Billionaires Owning Farms
Society & Culture1 min ago
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And animal being?....check the facts as 'an animal' is FAR from correct...
Little clue.....Dog, Ass....etc, it IS defined.
Plain English is.....No this is NOT an offence so don't worry, He didn't hit it did he--end of story.
Someone had a knock in their car and is 'trying it on'...10 years as """"""""""" and I would never have wasted my time even looking into this 'case'!
First post, so here it goes.
If you are involved in an accident on a public highway or anywhere to which the public has easy access (ie a supermarket carpark) then you have 24 hours to report the accident. You only have to report it if damage occurred or if an injury occurred or both.
Technically you are also supposed to report it even if you exchange details although this is impractical in most cases, however many people do so to ensure that the other driver is insured or has given the correct details (although you will never find out what they are).
If you don't know an accident has taken place then this is a mitigating circumstance, although this does not remove you liability for damages. If independant witnesses saw you cause the damage (by having your number plate to hand I'd say this is likely) then you have a responsibility for either providing your insurance details or offering to pay to repair the other car. I'd assume the costs would be minor if you didn't feel damage to your own car.
As for why you didnt notice it, when a car stalls it rarely does so without offering you a little shudder and some noise, often enough to mask a minor bump.
I have to disagree with the previous answer. A road accident can only take place on a road. It is possible for a car park to meet the definition of a road if it is a through route from somewhere to somewhere else, but that is unlikely with a supermarket.
This site gives the actual wording.
http://www.lesberries.co.uk/cycling/misc/rta170.html
Also, when an accident takes place on a road, you do not have 24 hours to report it. You have to report it as soon as reasonable practicable and in any case within 24 hours. This means that if you are in a remote area, you might stay until morning before you go into town to report it, but you would have to go that day.
You only have to report an accident if you do not give your name and address etc. to anyone having reasonable grounds for requiring it, or in the case of injury, produce your certificate of insurance.
Public highway is a completely different thing from a road. It is the definintion of road that matters here.
A few years ago, I received a letter from a insurance company stating that my car had caused damage to another car in a carpark and I was requested to give my insurance details so that several hundred pounds could be paid up for this alleged damage.
I checked the dates and realised that the date mentioned was a time when we had been out of town with the car anyway.
I contacted the police for advice and I am sure that I was told at the time to write a curt letter back to the insurance company stating something along the lines that I had been out of town and the incident was alleged to have occurred in a private carpark and therefore it had nothing to do with either the police or my insurance company and I didn't want to hear any more about it.
I didn't hear anything further from that insurance company...