Hit and Run woes Mount
Wild-headlights in the mirror first prisoner Erika Gandre attract attention, as it led to a friend’s house in the darkness, last spring.
So couinement tires, they realize that the car was quickly behind him on I-15, weaving and deviation from the middle of traffic at night.
It was 2 hours and Gandre fired toward the side of the road to change the reckless driver. But before the car has typed in his Toyota 4Runner walk 65 km per hour and zerschellte the driver side door. The impact slammed his head in the window and its board of the knee in the bars.
Gandre looked, knocked to see the other car. She received the license number and establish the car was a late model white Mercedes.
However, the moral of the story, said Erika’s father, Brent Gandre is that if you are the victim of a hit-and-Run-pilot that you have on your own.
“Where are you from? The police did not help. The insurance company tries to jump. We have no problems. What are people to do?” Gandre requested past, has more than a month prodding of police officers and insurance for help.
Twenty-four-year-old Erika Gandre thought it was doing its part - Prime licence number of the car as they were led away after the crash of May 15.
As it turned out that it was not enough.
Indeed, even if you have the number the plate and a description of the dignity of the car, if you’re not injured, the legal system has little incentive not to catch the wrong type. Have a late payment in the mixture of insurance and Erika Gandre and their parents had a problem of $ 4000 in his hands.
“We also contacted many people, and nobody did anything,” said Erika Gandre. “I thought: Hit and Run. Immense. I was wrong.”
Case closed?
A mix-up with Thomas the Insurance Agency of Salt Lake City and its parent company, Progressive Insurance Companies Classic, was also great concern for the family that Brent Gandre said, it is the introduction of a complaint with the National Insurance Division. It is also important for the driver himself conduit.
“I’m not with her. I would like to report to be considered for its acts that money,” said Brent Gandre. “It must guarantee Hit and Run - plus, he was travel without insurance. I’ll do anything for my late corral this guy.”
Because if it is in many cases with the police, workloads and resources, the Utah Highway Patrol made a few cursory search the driver, then finish.
“We know that the registered owner of the vehicle, but we do not know where you,” said Highway Patrol Sgt. Ted Tingey. “We consider this event.
“The problem is that we have a lot of them,” said Tingey, which Hit and Run-case basis. “It is frustrating for people because they want to take responsibility, but in this case, we ran into an impasse after impasse.
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