Peoples morals? (Leaving the scene of an accident)

[Th3Rabb1t]

First post is sadly a bad one

So today I returned to my bike, after having parked it in the town centre, to find my handle bars bent, mirror on a weird angle, indicator on one side completely smashed and other various scratches and scuffs. This accompanied by a nice white scrape on the curb edge near my bike meant some moron had knocked my bike over and picked it back up. I asked the restaurant it was parked in front of (baring in mind the front wall of this restaurant is pretty much all a window) but no one had seen a thing?
Disgruntled with the lack of CCTV footage covering that part of the road I returned to my bike to find a small piece of paper lodged between my throttle and brake lever. "Ring Alan on 07**********".
Oh at least they were kind enough to leave some details so they can pay for damages you think? Wrong.
Turns out this guy just witnessed the car swerve into my bike while avoiding a bus in some weird circumstance? Then drive off. Luckily the guy that left his details was in the car behind and caught the reg plate and decided to pick my bike up and leave me the note.
So there is some light at the end of the tunnel just need to wait for him to get back to me with the reg number.
Whats the procedure here? Get reg number and some more contact details, contact police get police ref number then contact insurance, give them the police ref number and let them do the leg work?

Guess I should count myself lucky Alan had the decency to stop and take the reg!

[pinkyfloyd]

I'd contact the police with the reg number and then let the insurance companies and police take control of things. My next step would be call Alan and ask him what he drinks and send him a case of his chosen beverage as a thank you for being a decent bloke.
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[wilz1234]

What if Alans note was just a cover up cos he crashed into it himself and didn't want others to think he was driving off. Then he came up with the cunning plan of picking out some random car with a dent in the right place and giving their numberplate?

[Ayrton]

At least someone was decent enough to stop and leave their details.
You should just contact the police and let them deal with it.

[daemonoid]

[Th3Rabb1t]

[Rogerborg]

[Th3Rabb1t]

[Rogerborg]

Sadly, we've seen case after case where CCTV operators couldn't be bothered or just flat refused to provide footage, once for the hilarious reason that it would infringe the rights of the criminal.

I really do wish you the best of luck, but you'll have to be tenacious to get anything done.
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[Th3Rabb1t]

Quick update, seems the man wrote the number plate down wrong as it took him a while to find a pen, it was dark and the the number plate was muddy.
Reported it to the police and they've put a request in for the CCTV of the area and should hear back "between a few days or weeks" *sigh*

[Rogerborg]

Hey, they're (maybe) going to have a look, that's actually pretty good going. Cold comfort, but it's more than I'd expected.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[J.M.]

[junglejim]