Jimbop90

@Bike Loonagreed. However his behaviour for the last 5 days, refusing to provide details (an offence in itself) to me, my insurer, the police (if they have actually called him) doesn’t reflect an innocent party.

I have a video of Vlad admitting he was in the left lane of a dual carriageway (I know technically definition of a dual carriageway is any road a divider in the middle, so this is technically a 2 lane dual carriageway) entering a roundabout, but then turned right on the roundabout, cutting across the lanes and therefore hitting me in the side. He doesn’t know the Highway Code. He even states that he thinks he can do that. In the situation I didn’t go full d**khead on him, because I thought it would be more helpful to be nice to him, and let him explain what happened to his or my insurance company and by him just saying what happened would essentially win the claim for me, as he is 100% at fault. I know I’m naive to think that given insurance companies are slimy, and he could change his story, but he didn’t seem like an arsehole, just someone who doesn’t know how to drive.

Based if nothing else than on the fact you're driving Porsche's, there's some pretty smart people on this forum! I'm hoping you can help me with those big brains. I messed up big time. Was crashed into on a roundabout on Saturday evening. We stopped, I took photos of the cars, police turned up (neither of us called them), officer insurance checked us both, didn't breathalise (possibly not a traffic cop, maybe dog unit?) and told us to get off the dual carriageway. We exchanged phone numbers. He wanted to go our separate ways and pay our own bills, I said no it needed to go through insurance, eventually I relented and said I'd at least get a quote first before going through insurance. We were texting the first day or so after it happened but now he's gone quiet. My photos don't have his reg, I realised almost immediately, so pulled over again and rang the police, they said nothing had been logged yet and to ring back the next day. I rang back, they haven't logged it. I'm 99.9% sure its a reg beginning with K, 90% sure its a 13 plate, and don't know about 2nd letter or the last 3 letters. I've checked the roads for cameras, there are some traffic cameras that the police monitor. The traffic team or whatever at West Mercia haven't been helpful at all, I've basically been telling the woman how to do her job. Her reply when I asked them to call Vlad (the guy who crashed into me) and ask to confirm his details was "if he won't give them to you why would he give them to us?" - now I know some people aren't much for complying with the police these days but I think I would answer a direct question from a member of police staff. That this didn't occur to her did make me laugh. I've been told by a friend who is a Cheshire traffic cop that even if it was just rang through over radio, there should be an audit of all insurance lookups that an officer requests, which makes sense to me, if nothing else for internal investigations into dodgy police after all the cr*p going on in the Met. Lets face it, if I'd been murdered 6 hours after this incident they would find Vlad's reg. I feel like it's just about me trying to leverage as much resource as possible being put into this to get a result. My friend has suggested logging a complaint if they don't come up with anything. I've given the exact locations of several cameras he would have driven through, the time windows he'd have driven through, they have my details so they can look up my reg and just watch the next 2 minutes of footage, it was a one way road we came down after the incident so he HAS to have passed one camera in particular. I've also given the info on the police car that stopped, they know who was on shift, they know the time, they know the place, there's only so many male coppers even if all of them were 6ft2+, over 40 with a shaved head, so even if they looked at the audit of each one on the insurance lookup "log" or whatever it is, then they'd find Vlads's reg right next to mine in the list either just before or just after. Those cars have dashcams. They would absolutely have Vlad's reg. I think I've exhausted everything else I can think of, I will try local facebook groups for witnesses but it wasn't very busy and I think anyone who had dashcam and would be interested in helping would already have been in touch. Is there anything I haven't thought of that I could use to find him? Short of a private investigator or impersonating a police officer, lol. I've considered asking DVLA for all 2013 Black Audi A3's registered to a Hereford post code with reg starting with K under the name Vlad, there can't be many. I know I'm an idiot, please don't pile on. I've been beating myself up about it all week.