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Originally posted by john70t
quote: "Not sure what country you guys are from, but the notion that the police in the U.S.A. have no jurisdiction on private property is beyond laughable. Like if I kill someone, and it's in my house, (private property), no problem?"
Actually in the Bay Area, the police won't show up for accidents unless there's an injury involved.
-The first time I had a radio ripped off (mid-day on a busy steet), the SFPD wouldn't even give me a report number.
-After I was ploughed by mr. agressive truckdriver Gomez (out of LA) while sitting in bridge traffic, I reported it to a mr. Rodregiz at the SF CHP office-because after 45 minutes no CHP arrived at the accident site. After looking at the form, he won't take the report paperwork (hmm), and said I had to physically drive it to the Oakland CHP office.
The company refered to three different insurance carriers, two different appraisers looked at the dented bumper, then 2 months later I was denied compensation.
The companies local address was a vacant lot and the car was a piece'r so I forgot about it. Put faith in the system?
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The system sucks. I had a guy t-bone me at an intersection 100 feet from a CHP officer "on break." The accident nearly totalled my Grand Cherokee... I was a little shaken. Asked the officer to walk over and do a report. She said: "were there drugs or alcohol involved?" I (foolishly) said 'no.' She said well, be sure to file an accident report.'
The other driver (gringo) was driving a nearly-new F-150 pickemup, and he was contrite and promised to pay immediately after running into me. The next day, he didn't recall having said that and openly speculated that I must've been in the wrong (driving through a green light at the speed limit). He had no insurance. I had had the presence of mind to get a business card from the guy behind me and my insurance co. went after the other driver -- for, I'm sure, a lot more than the $8K it took to fix my Jeep.
(Months later, I discovered the accident had screwed up my rotator cuff but it was too late to add therapy costs to the claim.)
Generally, my encounters with the CHP have been only mildly negative, but the above was one of the worst.