Well I had a shocking day today. I wasn’t involved in the earlier parts of the events, but I am still absolutely fuming, so I am going to release some steam here and share it with you guys. What I am about to say is absolutely 100% true, it really did happen
My mum was driving her E 350 with my younger brother riding along. Our car was stuck in traffic when the right side mirror was hit by a truck while it forced its way through traffic. The truck driver heard the noise, but continued to drive on, so my mum decided to chase after the truck, while on the horn for the entire time.
Eventually the truck driver and my mum both stopped at the side of the road, and my younger brother got out of the car to ask for an exchange of insurance details. The truck driver got out, denied everything and began to threaten my brother. My brother called the police immediately and the truck driver drove off. We got his number plate.
I received a call from my brother afterward and I drove over to them as quickly as possible. Thankfully, only the side mirror was damaged, it can be easily replaced. Now here begins the part when it just caused me great frustration, to say the least. We waited for 20 min for the police but nobody came. I know we are about 10 min drive from two nearby police stations so it couldn’t have taken this long, even if there is traffic. We called the police station again; they said we will have to drive the car to them. I thought this is alright, as least they are going to do something about it.
We were about 400 meters away from the police station when we witness a car accident right in front of us. The VW Golf directly in front of us was hit on the driver side when another car came out from the side street. It was a medium speed impact, drivers from both cars walked out fine.
Anyway we continue to drive to the police station, and we parked the car right outside the station so the police can take a look later on. As soon as we walked into the station, we told a police officer we just witness a car accident in front of us, unbelievably, the police officer said “Not Interested”
I was thinking is this guy serious? Initially the police officer refused to even write a police statement; he told us the other driver has no obligation to exchange insurance details. We complained to him about the behavior of the truck driver, he just said “Not interested’’ We spent a good 20 min or so inside the station explaining the events that took place to the rude and unhelpful police officer, and during all this time, the rest of the police officers were having their afternoon tea/snack time, instead of attending the car accident which happened only 400 m away from the station. Unbelievable indeed.
I went outside of the police station to answer a call when a young police officer walked out of the station as well. He looked at me, looked at our Mercedes and asked if it was my car, I said yes. Immediately he looked annoyed and said “You can’t park here, move your car”
I replied “We are just making a police statement inside the station, we will be done soon”
He said in a rude tone “I don’t care, move your car” despite the fact that there are still 3 other empty spaces for other police cars to park. The police station is located on a very busy street, and to find another parking space in peak hour traffic was impossible, so I tried to reason with him and said “Tell me where you want me to move my car and I will move it”
The police officer said “I don’t care where you move it, just move it”
At this point, I am getting rather pissed off by his attitude, so I just stared at him and refused to move my car and he stared back at me, until he got a call by his partner to get inside the police car and drove away.
I continued on my phone conversation when a female officer came over to me, asked me the same questions again, I told her the same thing all over again, she won’t have any of it, and insist on me to move our Mercedes. I told them I will move it when another parking space became available. She didn’t look too pleased but she went back into the station.
Within five minutes, another, different police officer came out of the station and told me to move my car. Yet again I explained the situation to him, telling him I have to wait for the car to be inspected by another police officer; well this is what he said next
“You can just keep driving around the block, I don’t care as long as you move it’’
Now I am visibly angry, so I started the car engine and signaled to leave my parking space, but because of the car accident 400 m up the road, the traffic was virtually a stand still, I wasn’t able to move the car and the police office didn’t bother to wait and return back to the station.
As soon as he went away, I switched off the engine and just sat inside the car, still parked at the same spot. Within 5 min later, the same female officer and another, different male officer approached my car, both shaking their heads and ordered me to move it, so I said loudly to them “What is the bloody point if I have to bring it back to you guys for damage inspection anyway?”
It was absolutely astonishing to know that with a space of 20 min, 4 different police officers have approached me and ordered me to move my car, I have received more of their attention than the two drivers who just had a car accident 400 m up the road, which has blocked all traffic to and from that road intersection. None, absolutely none of them bothered to even walk over to the crash site to direct traffic, or sort out the mess.
Meanwhile my mum and my brother were inside the station, trying to convince the police officer to at least write down a police statement so we can claim our insurance. Eventually he did, and had a quick look at the damage, and then told us to leave. We were there for over an hour, for something that should have taken less than half of that time. I was absolutely disgusted by their attitude, and the lack of respect they displayed towards my mum, my brother and me.
This isn’t the first time when we have to deal with rude, unhelpful police officers. About 3 years ago, our Mercedes was rear ended in traffic; the other driver got out of the car and started to threaten my mother. The police came, but refuse to write a police report or statement, or even have a word with the other driver.
Is it because the police generally don’t care, or is it the car? Do you guys have other similar experiences at all?
My mum was driving her E 350 with my younger brother riding along. Our car was stuck in traffic when the right side mirror was hit by a truck while it forced its way through traffic. The truck driver heard the noise, but continued to drive on, so my mum decided to chase after the truck, while on the horn for the entire time.
Eventually the truck driver and my mum both stopped at the side of the road, and my younger brother got out of the car to ask for an exchange of insurance details. The truck driver got out, denied everything and began to threaten my brother. My brother called the police immediately and the truck driver drove off. We got his number plate.
I received a call from my brother afterward and I drove over to them as quickly as possible. Thankfully, only the side mirror was damaged, it can be easily replaced. Now here begins the part when it just caused me great frustration, to say the least. We waited for 20 min for the police but nobody came. I know we are about 10 min drive from two nearby police stations so it couldn’t have taken this long, even if there is traffic. We called the police station again; they said we will have to drive the car to them. I thought this is alright, as least they are going to do something about it.
We were about 400 meters away from the police station when we witness a car accident right in front of us. The VW Golf directly in front of us was hit on the driver side when another car came out from the side street. It was a medium speed impact, drivers from both cars walked out fine.
Anyway we continue to drive to the police station, and we parked the car right outside the station so the police can take a look later on. As soon as we walked into the station, we told a police officer we just witness a car accident in front of us, unbelievably, the police officer said “Not Interested”
I was thinking is this guy serious? Initially the police officer refused to even write a police statement; he told us the other driver has no obligation to exchange insurance details. We complained to him about the behavior of the truck driver, he just said “Not interested’’ We spent a good 20 min or so inside the station explaining the events that took place to the rude and unhelpful police officer, and during all this time, the rest of the police officers were having their afternoon tea/snack time, instead of attending the car accident which happened only 400 m away from the station. Unbelievable indeed.
I went outside of the police station to answer a call when a young police officer walked out of the station as well. He looked at me, looked at our Mercedes and asked if it was my car, I said yes. Immediately he looked annoyed and said “You can’t park here, move your car”
I replied “We are just making a police statement inside the station, we will be done soon”
He said in a rude tone “I don’t care, move your car” despite the fact that there are still 3 other empty spaces for other police cars to park. The police station is located on a very busy street, and to find another parking space in peak hour traffic was impossible, so I tried to reason with him and said “Tell me where you want me to move my car and I will move it”
The police officer said “I don’t care where you move it, just move it”
At this point, I am getting rather pissed off by his attitude, so I just stared at him and refused to move my car and he stared back at me, until he got a call by his partner to get inside the police car and drove away.
I continued on my phone conversation when a female officer came over to me, asked me the same questions again, I told her the same thing all over again, she won’t have any of it, and insist on me to move our Mercedes. I told them I will move it when another parking space became available. She didn’t look too pleased but she went back into the station.
Within five minutes, another, different police officer came out of the station and told me to move my car. Yet again I explained the situation to him, telling him I have to wait for the car to be inspected by another police officer; well this is what he said next
“You can just keep driving around the block, I don’t care as long as you move it’’
Now I am visibly angry, so I started the car engine and signaled to leave my parking space, but because of the car accident 400 m up the road, the traffic was virtually a stand still, I wasn’t able to move the car and the police office didn’t bother to wait and return back to the station.
As soon as he went away, I switched off the engine and just sat inside the car, still parked at the same spot. Within 5 min later, the same female officer and another, different male officer approached my car, both shaking their heads and ordered me to move it, so I said loudly to them “What is the bloody point if I have to bring it back to you guys for damage inspection anyway?”
It was absolutely astonishing to know that with a space of 20 min, 4 different police officers have approached me and ordered me to move my car, I have received more of their attention than the two drivers who just had a car accident 400 m up the road, which has blocked all traffic to and from that road intersection. None, absolutely none of them bothered to even walk over to the crash site to direct traffic, or sort out the mess.
Meanwhile my mum and my brother were inside the station, trying to convince the police officer to at least write down a police statement so we can claim our insurance. Eventually he did, and had a quick look at the damage, and then told us to leave. We were there for over an hour, for something that should have taken less than half of that time. I was absolutely disgusted by their attitude, and the lack of respect they displayed towards my mum, my brother and me.
This isn’t the first time when we have to deal with rude, unhelpful police officers. About 3 years ago, our Mercedes was rear ended in traffic; the other driver got out of the car and started to threaten my mother. The police came, but refuse to write a police report or statement, or even have a word with the other driver.
Is it because the police generally don’t care, or is it the car? Do you guys have other similar experiences at all?
All I can say is , SUE THEM IF YOU CAN lol. Well of course this is the case almost everywhere now. Everybody is complaining because of the weird attitude towards "decent" car owners. Last day I was reading a thread over at rennteam, the guy lost customers and never came back to his shop because he once drove a "loud" M3 !!! that's Germany btw.
