Fender bender in Fairfax County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Montgomery County but that’s been the norm here for a long time.

Really? I got rear ended in MoCo and a cop came out, wrote the other driver a ticket and worked with both of us to make sure we knew what the next steps were (the other driver was very young). Another time, a driver rear ended me and then tried to drive away (ohhh MoCo), and the cop that came out spend time interviewing me, found her, and gave her a ticket (she was clearly not insured for the car that she was driving, also a really young woman).

So not my experience at all.

You sound vindicative. My daughter for instance who is young was very very tired coming home a very long shift. She rear ended someone after a 16 hours shift at the hospital working with children in the ICU. The other drive could drive away so not that bad. He called a cop and in MoCo the dick cop wrote up a failure to maintain vehicle speed. My daughter admited fault, I showed up a scene as near house and cop was such a jerk. He actually was encourging guy to sue us. My daughter was driving a car that went under back of large work truck and was in a daze. Cop was having paramedics look at guy first who was not hurt at all. He was in a big truck stopped at light.

After cop wrote ticket and I got paramedics to look at daughter cop comes to me and says police report will be ready in a few days. I said nicely why would I need it we admitted fault and going home to file claim. Then my daughter had to take off work to go to court on that stupid fake ticket. of course they plea it down if she pays fine to non moving violations

Thankd God other guy was honst. He told me when they were writting up ticket he only call 911 as was afraid my daughter was hurt and to get tow truck. I saw he filed his insurance and I already said 100 fault and his insurance got paid right away. This was all at 10am in morning on a weekend.

You do know a young driver being charged with a at fault accident and a moving violation is a death sentence for five years. The failure to control vehicle ticket was nonsense. The driver she hit did not see accident. My daughter was not aware what happened and cop showed up later. He issued a ticket for a violation no one saw. A cash grab. Never once asked how my daughter was doing after all the airbags exploded and car totaled. Her car was totalled the landscaper truck had a a bit of a ding on his massive metal bumper and trailor hitch. That guy continued on his way.

Almost forgot the cop yelled at me too. Since my daughters accident the car slide on shoulder and other guy was leaving and I was on phone with Geico calling tow truck as had towing. He stopped me and said that is my job it is going to impound yard. I just said car is clearly totaled. I live around three miles away. I am planning on towing it home to house. Let insurance come to my house look at it to confirm totaled and they they will take it so no impound fees. He was like that wont do. It got towed to a place 15 miles away and there was a week impound fees my insurance company paid before they totalled it.

The other drive even went to cop at end can I go I am late for work I have insurance info. Cop was like are you sure not hurt, maybe you need tow truck. Guy then just left. Kinda annoyed he even called as he thought he was doing right thing for my daughter to get her medical help if needed and get her towing if needed. All he got her was a ticket and him late for work.

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[Anonymous]

Had a truck sideswipe me today. Called 911, they said since there are no injuries no cops would come. I asked them to come anyway. The other person was clearly at fault. No ticket. The police officer said trade insurance information and have a good day. Is this the new normal in Fairfax??

I was t-boned in Fairfax County in 2012. The other driver (very young male to be specific) drove right through a stop sign and hit me as I was turning at a 3 way stop. The police were right behind me (because it happened right near the jail in Fairfax). Police stopped, but told me that my car did not suffer enough damage to give a ticket! Mind you, the car had to be towed because it was that damaged. My insurance company was livid and asked me to get the officer's badge number. Fortunately I had an accident report with his number on it. I don't know exactly how it all turned out, but my insurance company took it from there.

The other driver said the cop could not contact his mother because she "is deaf" and he was going to volunteer at his church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Montgomery County but that’s been the norm here for a long time.

Really? I got rear ended in MoCo and a cop came out, wrote the other driver a ticket and worked with both of us to make sure we knew what the next steps were (the other driver was very young). Another time, a driver rear ended me and then tried to drive away (ohhh MoCo), and the cop that came out spend time interviewing me, found her, and gave her a ticket (she was clearly not insured for the car that she was driving, also a really young woman).

So not my experience at all.

You sound vindicative. My daughter for instance who is young was very very tired coming home a very long shift. She rear ended someone after a 16 hours shift at the hospital working with children in the ICU. The other drive could drive away so not that bad. He called a cop and in MoCo the dick cop wrote up a failure to maintain vehicle speed. My daughter admited fault, I showed up a scene as near house and cop was such a jerk. He actually was encourging guy to sue us. My daughter was driving a car that went under back of large work truck and was in a daze. Cop was having paramedics look at guy first who was not hurt at all. He was in a big truck stopped at light.

After cop wrote ticket and I got paramedics to look at daughter cop comes to me and says police report will be ready in a few days. I said nicely why would I need it we admitted fault and going home to file claim. Then my daughter had to take off work to go to court on that stupid fake ticket. of course they plea it down if she pays fine to non moving violations

Thankd God other guy was honst. He told me when they were writting up ticket he only call 911 as was afraid my daughter was hurt and to get tow truck. I saw he filed his insurance and I already said 100 fault and his insurance got paid right away. This was all at 10am in morning on a weekend.

You do know a young driver being charged with a at fault accident and a moving violation is a death sentence for five years. The failure to control vehicle ticket was nonsense. The driver she hit did not see accident. My daughter was not aware what happened and cop showed up later. He issued a ticket for a violation no one saw. A cash grab. Never once asked how my daughter was doing after all the airbags exploded and car totaled. Her car was totalled the landscaper truck had a a bit of a ding on his massive metal bumper and trailor hitch. That guy continued on his way.

Almost forgot the cop yelled at me too. Since my daughters accident the car slide on shoulder and other guy was leaving and I was on phone with Geico calling tow truck as had towing. He stopped me and said that is my job it is going to impound yard. I just said car is clearly totaled. I live around three miles away. I am planning on towing it home to house. Let insurance come to my house look at it to confirm totaled and they they will take it so no impound fees. He was like that wont do. It got towed to a place 15 miles away and there was a week impound fees my insurance company paid before they totalled it.

The other drive even went to cop at end can I go I am late for work I have insurance info. Cop was like are you sure not hurt, maybe you need tow truck. Guy then just left. Kinda annoyed he even called as he thought he was doing right thing for my daughter to get her medical help if needed and get her towing if needed. All he got her was a ticket and him late for work.

With your attitude you are lucky you didn’t get arrested. And your daughter is lucky to walk away from the crash. Being tired at work is not an excuse to plow into another car.

[Anonymous]

I drove by a fender bender the other day, police were there. Idk further details except it was gone went I went by again 30 minutes later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Montgomery County but that’s been the norm here for a long time.

Really? I got rear ended in MoCo and a cop came out, wrote the other driver a ticket and worked with both of us to make sure we knew what the next steps were (the other driver was very young). Another time, a driver rear ended me and then tried to drive away (ohhh MoCo), and the cop that came out spend time interviewing me, found her, and gave her a ticket (she was clearly not insured for the car that she was driving, also a really young woman).

So not my experience at all.

You sound vindicative. My daughter for instance who is young was very very tired coming home a very long shift. She rear ended someone after a 16 hours shift at the hospital working with children in the ICU. The other drive could drive away so not that bad. He called a cop and in MoCo the dick cop wrote up a failure to maintain vehicle speed. My daughter admited fault, I showed up a scene as near house and cop was such a jerk. He actually was encourging guy to sue us. My daughter was driving a car that went under back of large work truck and was in a daze. Cop was having paramedics look at guy first who was not hurt at all. He was in a big truck stopped at light.

After cop wrote ticket and I got paramedics to look at daughter cop comes to me and says police report will be ready in a few days. I said nicely why would I need it we admitted fault and going home to file claim. Then my daughter had to take off work to go to court on that stupid fake ticket. of course they plea it down if she pays fine to non moving violations

Thankd God other guy was honst. He told me when they were writting up ticket he only call 911 as was afraid my daughter was hurt and to get tow truck. I saw he filed his insurance and I already said 100 fault and his insurance got paid right away. This was all at 10am in morning on a weekend.

You do know a young driver being charged with a at fault accident and a moving violation is a death sentence for five years. The failure to control vehicle ticket was nonsense. The driver she hit did not see accident. My daughter was not aware what happened and cop showed up later. He issued a ticket for a violation no one saw. A cash grab. Never once asked how my daughter was doing after all the airbags exploded and car totaled. Her car was totalled the landscaper truck had a a bit of a ding on his massive metal bumper and trailor hitch. That guy continued on his way.

Almost forgot the cop yelled at me too. Since my daughters accident the car slide on shoulder and other guy was leaving and I was on phone with Geico calling tow truck as had towing. He stopped me and said that is my job it is going to impound yard. I just said car is clearly totaled. I live around three miles away. I am planning on towing it home to house. Let insurance come to my house look at it to confirm totaled and they they will take it so no impound fees. He was like that wont do. It got towed to a place 15 miles away and there was a week impound fees my insurance company paid before they totalled it.

The other drive even went to cop at end can I go I am late for work I have insurance info. Cop was like are you sure not hurt, maybe you need tow truck. Guy then just left. Kinda annoyed he even called as he thought he was doing right thing for my daughter to get her medical help if needed and get her towing if needed. All he got her was a ticket and him late for work.

So, in summary, your daughter was irresponsible and rear ended someone. And she was 100% at fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Montgomery County but that’s been the norm here for a long time.

Really? I got rear ended in MoCo and a cop came out, wrote the other driver a ticket and worked with both of us to make sure we knew what the next steps were (the other driver was very young). Another time, a driver rear ended me and then tried to drive away (ohhh MoCo), and the cop that came out spend time interviewing me, found her, and gave her a ticket (she was clearly not insured for the car that she was driving, also a really young woman).

So not my experience at all.

You sound vindicative. My daughter for instance who is young was very very tired coming home a very long shift. She rear ended someone after a 16 hours shift at the hospital working with children in the ICU. The other drive could drive away so not that bad. He called a cop and in MoCo the dick cop wrote up a failure to maintain vehicle speed. My daughter admited fault, I showed up a scene as near house and cop was such a jerk. He actually was encourging guy to sue us. My daughter was driving a car that went under back of large work truck and was in a daze. Cop was having paramedics look at guy first who was not hurt at all. He was in a big truck stopped at light.

After cop wrote ticket and I got paramedics to look at daughter cop comes to me and says police report will be ready in a few days. I said nicely why would I need it we admitted fault and going home to file claim. Then my daughter had to take off work to go to court on that stupid fake ticket. of course they plea it down if she pays fine to non moving violations

Thankd God other guy was honst. He told me when they were writting up ticket he only call 911 as was afraid my daughter was hurt and to get tow truck. I saw he filed his insurance and I already said 100 fault and his insurance got paid right away. This was all at 10am in morning on a weekend.

You do know a young driver being charged with a at fault accident and a moving violation is a death sentence for five years. The failure to control vehicle ticket was nonsense. The driver she hit did not see accident. My daughter was not aware what happened and cop showed up later. He issued a ticket for a violation no one saw. A cash grab. Never once asked how my daughter was doing after all the airbags exploded and car totaled. Her car was totalled the landscaper truck had a a bit of a ding on his massive metal bumper and trailor hitch. That guy continued on his way.

Almost forgot the cop yelled at me too. Since my daughters accident the car slide on shoulder and other guy was leaving and I was on phone with Geico calling tow truck as had towing. He stopped me and said that is my job it is going to impound yard. I just said car is clearly totaled. I live around three miles away. I am planning on towing it home to house. Let insurance come to my house look at it to confirm totaled and they they will take it so no impound fees. He was like that wont do. It got towed to a place 15 miles away and there was a week impound fees my insurance company paid before they totalled it.

The other drive even went to cop at end can I go I am late for work I have insurance info. Cop was like are you sure not hurt, maybe you need tow truck. Guy then just left. Kinda annoyed he even called as he thought he was doing right thing for my daughter to get her medical help if needed and get her towing if needed. All he got her was a ticket and him late for work.

Wow. Just coming back to say that being tired is no excuse to not stop and exchange info with the person that you hit. Honestly, if the girl that rear ended me had just pulled over and talked to me, I might not have called the cops to issue a ticket. But driving away after getting into an accident amplifies everything.

As for the rest of your diatribe, I bet you and your daughter get into a lot of problems because of your refusal to take ownership of your own mistakes.

Anyway, back to the thread at hand: cops should and do show up to issue tickets when you get into accidents in the area.

[Anonymous]

Just about every fender bender I see has police there. I know many pull off the road and you never see them but I'm talking the typical rear ender.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had something similar happened clearly not my fault. Police did not issue a ticket. I think it’s because Virginia is a no fault state.

Virginia is not a no-fault state.

OP's experience is no longer unusual. In fact, I see much less traffic enforcement in NoVA outside of the incorporated towns (Vienna, Herndon) or cities (Alexandria, Manassas).

VA State Police handle the interstate highways. They seem more likely to show up.

[Anonymous]

I got into a fender bender in Fairfax County last year, and the FFX police came out, issued a ticket to the other driver, and wrote a police report, which I then sent to the insurance company. It was very clearly the other driver's fault, maybe that was the difference?

[Anonymous]

I was in a fender bender in Fairfax County about a year ago. Other driver was clearly at fault, turned left into me as I drove through the intersection.

We pulled over to exchange information. I wasn't going to call the cops as the other driver admitted fault right away, and the damage to both cars made it obvious that they ran into the side of my car. But a cop passed by while we were there and pulled over to talk to us. Ended up taking both of our statements, and issued the other driver a ticket for failure to yield.