Car accidents are the worst. From the most minuscule collision to cars that have absolutely no chance of being repaired, accidents are unfortunate, time consuming and frustrating. If you’ve ever found yourself in a hit and run situation, join the club.
Hit and runs are self explanatory: a car hits yours and leaves the scene, failing to provide any type of assistance or insurance information.
All that’s left at the scene is you – alone and in utter disbelief of what just occurred. You’re left to contact the police in your area and explain what just happened with no evidence in your favor. Your only hope is that there’s some sort of video footage that just so happened to catch the runner in the act.
To make matters worse, if the driver who hit you fled the scene quickly, then there’s a slim to none chance you caught their license plate.
Now you’re left with no evidence, no identification of the other person and no idea of what’s to come. We’ll save you the time. A long and stressful week is in your near future.
Repeatedly contacting the police department, your insurance carrier, the other driver’s insurance provider, and the collision center if your car was totaled, is not an ideal week for anybody with a life.
If you’re a college student, it really becomes a game of phone tag – missing calls while you’re in class and calling back only to realize it’s too late and you have to try again tomorrow.
Fleeing the scene after you hit a car is probably one of the most cowardly things a driver can do. You don’t know how you left the other driver. What if they got hurt? What if they’re alone and freaking out? You’ll be left with a guilty conscience, and you’ll only be making things look worse for yourself.
Save someone the trouble of having to track you down and waste hours a day contacting different people for something you could’ve provided if you didn’t immaturely leave the scene of the crime.
So, if you ever catch yourself in an accident, please remember to be a decent human being and stay there until the police come to sort everything out. Depending on how severe the hit was, someone’s life may depend on it.