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Originally Posted by Andy4639
SC law,
Long story short, My wife was passing a car and a lady ran the stop sign and pulled into the lane my wife was in, she spun the car out through the grass and never touched the lady who ran the stop sign. I got her tag number and called the HP. They wrote her a ticket and her insurance payed for the car damage. She hit a ditch and broke the tie rod end off we couldn't drive the car. She had to pay to have the people yard fixed too!
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Happy to read you got her plate number. A similar scenario happened to me but I didn't get a plate. Unfortunately the cops thought I had been drinking and had to undergo a field sobriety and received a ticket for failure to control. I staked out the intersection for a couple of nights at about the same time the incident occurred and scored the plate number. I turned it into my insurance company and fortunately they pursued the car's owner. As the driver somewhat "confessed" to the insurance investigator during a taped phone interview, I took the recording into court and the judge dismissed the ticket.
What disturbed me most about this incident is the cops assumed immediately I was at fault and refused to consider my story. Additionally I easily passed the field sobriety and challenged them to give a breathalyzer but they refused. I then went to an independent lab and paid to have a blood alcohol test accomplished (zero %) to ensure additional charges weren't fabricated.
The problem I foresee with letting an accident evolve without taking evasive action is I'll get a total on the C20 as it won't be worth much according to the insurance company.