Car Accident - Other driver had no license/insurance?

I think since you both got out of getting ticketed, and She got out of way more than you did that it is a wash. I wouldn’t worry about it and just have your car repaired. I am sure she got a come-to-Jesus from the officer to get tags, insurance and restraints for her son.

I say you have to let it go. It was the policeman’s duty to do something about it and he didn’t; you have no power in the situation.

At this point, let it go. The next time (hopefully you will not cause another accident) insist that she be charged.

What would you have been charged with, @Gabby101?

You were at fault and you didn’t get a ticket. I would count yourself lucky. Best to just let it go.

@bkcunningham – I turned left on a green light b/c I thought I had the arrow (there was no arrow), but I didn’t and so I pulled out in front of the other car. I’m sure there’s some ticket for that, right?

I am grateful for not getting a ticket – that’s why I didn’t say anything at the time. I just feel like driving without insurance and not taking good care of your kid are serious offenses and have the potential to damage someone physically or financially. And, these offenses were done willingly.

I agree with you 100 percent. I just wanted to make sure you were driving under the influence or with faulty equipment or something equally dangerous before I commented.

I can’t imagine a police officer letting her just drive away without plates on her vehicle or without insurance. Unreal.

Suppose you had insisted on being ticketed. The cop would not necessarily have done anything different for the person you ran into. This is not your call.

I suppose you could have tried to make a citizen’s arrest, but I don’t know what is involved in that. It doesn’t seem realistic to me.

You could have tried to argue the cop into ticketing the other woman, but given the way cops are, that could have easily resulted in you getting arrested and her going free. I really don’t think you had much control over the situation, and there is certainly nothing you can do about it now, except maybe go to a reporter to see if they would be interested in the story. I doubt they would be, though.

A person who has no license or anything legal theoretically is there illegally and had they been obeying the law, would not have been, and therefore would not have been an accident. At least not with that person. It’s a draw. You lucked out this time.

There is almost no such thing as a car accident. There are however collisions, crashes, fender-benders and so on. Such things are not accidents!

@Dr_Lawrence I don’t get it. You’re saying people deliberately run their cars into other cars? That doesn’t make sense. Please explain. Is this humor?

@woodcutter – interesting argument!

Collisions are almost always the result of inattention, excessive speed, distracted driving, drug or alcohol abuse, poor vehicle maintenance, or other preventable causes. If a hippopotamus being transported by airplane escapes its crate, crashes into the cockpit and kills the pilots and the plane crash cause one road vehicle to swerve into the path of another, I’d concede that that is almost what would qualify as an accident. Of course, there was negligence on the part of the hippo crate makers or handlers!

I remember a wreck just like this one locally where there was a fatality in the car with no registration and the T-bone car’s driver was drunk. No manslaughter charges against the drunk driver. People were pissed. Moral of the story- make damn sure all your affairs are in order when you drive. That, and it’s the law.