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This morning, I was at the intersection of HWY54 and 15/501 in Chapel Hill waiting to turn left. I was behind the car you see in the picture below, black Volvo license NC: FDV-9034, in the right hand of the two turning lanes. The first odd thing that I noticed was the driver had their windshield wipers going. Not on intermittent, but just going. The light was red. The car started rolling back, as if the driver had placed it in neutral and let their foot off the brake. It kept rolling back towards me slowly. I laid on the horn, but it kept coming back until it collided with that dreaded crunch sound and sensation that anyone whose been in a wreck understands. Based upon the lack of severity to the impact, I doubted that there would be any significant damage. A few moments later, the light turned green and the driver took off and I followed. This was a tough choice: stay put and file a report with no information or try to get the license or even a picture of the car and license.

The continued in the lane, which ends just after Purefoy road and turned right on Purefoy. They proceeded to go, I would estimate, twice the speed limit and blew through the two stop signs on Purefoy. When they reached Mason Farm, where this picture was taken, they did pause briefly. As I reached my destination on Mason Farm, I turned off as they continued north towards the UNC Hospital. I was tempted to follow them, but didn't.

I got out and verified that there was no damage to my car. When I got to my office, I called the non-emergency number and issued a report as to what had happened. They took the license and description information, but I doubt they were going to do much and when last seen the car was in a different jurisdiction than the incident.

I suspect the driver was on something. Of course, they committed a hit and run and are likely going to get away with it.

In retrospect, I probably should have immediately called 911 with description and location information and continued to follow them to provide location updates. The change of jurisdiction from Chapel Hill to UNC would have possibly been tricky.

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Man, lookit, I had a tooth pulled and took too many hydros. My bad. Take the pic down and I'll send you a brick of .22's









Hahahahaha!!!!
Glad theres no damage to speak of and youre ok.
 
Around 6 months ago, My wife has the same thing happen to her in the SCHOOL CAR RIDER PICK UP LINE. The woman backed up into my wife .....SUV vs her Passat front bumper cover. The woman got out, looked at her car looked at my wife, said there was no damage, and jumped by into her SUV and left. No name, no insurance but she gave my wife a fake number that had an out of state prefix. :mad::mad::mad::mad:
She called me while she was following the SUV out of the parking lot and I told her to take a picture of the car and driver asap. When she got home we noticed the gouged scratched paint on the side and top of the painted bumper cover. At least $600 worth of damage.

We called the cops and they told us since we both left the scene, then there was no hit and run. Trust me when I say....I look for that car and driver every time I drop off or pick up my kid. There will be repercussions.
 
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Ikarus1 said:
We called the cops and they told us since we both left the scene, then there was no hit and run. Trust me when I say....I look for that car and driver every time I drop off or pick up my kid. There will be repercussions.
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That's what sucks about those type of occurrences. You stay put, they leave, you can file a report but if there's damage, it's still going to be a claim against your insurance while they get away. As there is no apparent damage, there probably isn't any forensic evidence to tie it to them. There is a decent chance that if they are s student of employee around here, I could see them again.

I did report it, but I could possibly send them an email with the picture.
 
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That's what sucks about those type of occurrences. You stay put, they leave, you can file a report but if there's damage, it's still going to be a claim against your insurance while they get away. As there is no apparent damage, there probably isn't any forensic evidence to tie it to them. There is a decent chance that if they are s student of employee around here, I could see them again.

I did report it, but I could possibly send them an email with the picture.
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You and I both need a dashcam

 
I've had something similar happen twice.

First in high school. A girl on a hill stalled a stick shift and rolled into me. I started backing up, when she didn't stop I just let her bump into the car to stop her. Not like that awesome 1977 Toyota Carolla was going to be hurt bad.

Next was a guy with a low boy trailer behind a pickup didn't get stopped for a red light. Instead of blowing through it he stopped in the intersection and backed up. Right into me. That one did enough damage I had to file a police report and deal with his insurance company.

Luckily no runners though.
 
Dashcams are great. I've record all sorts of strange driver behaviour and other events. In Moscow, the fake accident schemes got so bad that everyone was required to have one and be able to turn in the footage to get insurance.

As for the UNC vs Chapel Hill, area doesn't matter. CHPD has jurisdiction anywhere within the Chapel Hill town limits which includes campus
 
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As for the UNC vs Chapel Hill, area doesn't matter. CHPD has jurisdiction anywhere within the Chapel Hill town limits which includes campus
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I wish the person I talked to at the station knew that. They asked if I would like them to send someone by to file a report and I said it might be a wise idea. Thru asked where I was located and when I told them, they said they couldn't set foot on university property. I should have offered to meet them at McDonalds.
 
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Funny story. I was in my 1996 Chevy HD2500 pickup one day back in the late nineties. I was sitting at the bottom of a short but steep hill. There was a county government Chevy Impala in front of me near the top of the hill waiting for the light to turn green. When the light turned green and the brake lights went off on the Impala, it started rolling backwards down the hill towards me until it slammed into the front of my truck. I got out expecting the worst. The only damage I had was a cracked license plate frame. The whole trunk of the Impala was smashed up pretty bad along with the taillights and bumper cover.

These two guys got out, they looked to be from Nigeria maybe, had very strong accents. I told them I was good and didn't need anything from them. But I told them they would probably have to call a tow truck or turn around and go the other way because it appeared that they had a bad pump or very low fluid in that old 700R4 in that car. I backed up and they managed to turn it around and go back the way they came.
 
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