Whats the Point Reporting Accident?

buffalo

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I never said they were your fault? I misread 'incident' for accident anyway, apologies.

Did all these incidents take place in town or on a open road?

A variety of places - the Greenhills Road in the middle of the day, an empty industrial estate on a Sunday morning, the Phoenix Park at night...

I decided to give TrafficWatch another go and rang them to report three of the above that were outrageous.

I was strongly discouraged from filing any kind of report - that sure the cars might've changed hands in the last two months, and by the time the Gardai got around to it the statute of limitations might be passed. Also, three reports at once? We couldn't handle that - pick your favourite and maybe chat to the Garda who takes the first one about the other two (even though they're in totally different areas).

:rolleyes:

I picked the one that was the most deliberate and unnecessary (driver overtook very closely and then came back to tell me why he did it), and sure we'll see what happens.

a148pro

I was knocked off a bike by a scumbag a few years back. I called it in to garda station because I thought the way he behaved the car was stolen. Garda said to come in and make a formal complaint but I didn't.

Shortly afterwards I read a thread on here about someone getting knocked off their bike and I posted on it that it had convinced me to make a complaint, but in the end I didn't.

By bizarre dublin-is-a-small-place coincidence I learned a year or two later that the car was peripherally involved in a fatal accident a few months down the line. That doesn't make me feel great though my complaining would have been very unlikely to change that.

The point is we should make a complaint because:-

A - its far more likely to improve the drivers behaviour than not making a complaint

B - its far more likely to improve the garda's behaviour than not making a complaint

Interestingly, there's a little utilized power to bring a private prosecution if the garda didn't bother their hole, but not done very often and probably beyond the wherewithal of non lawyers

fat bloke

Eamonnator wrote: »

He said incidents not accidents.
Edit.
That reminds me of a Paul Simon song.

Hints and allegations.