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Keith B wrote:OK guys, keep is civil with no personal attacks or the thread will be locked.

I'm all for a lock, I think both sides have been presented. Please turn the key on this one.

3dfxMM wrote:

lws380 wrote:

3dfxMM wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:

lws380 wrote:

...Its all about money, ...

{***sigh***} Yepper, everything is about money.

To be fair to the police on this one, the OP's concern was also about money. :)

Wrong. My concern is what I see as the lack of caring by the PD. I'm sure money is their reason for not providing service.
You should not take the small quote from a larger paragraph (from another post) as my concern.

No, you were concerned about determining liability and who was going to have to pay. Your small quote here just happened to tag along with OldGringo's.

Wrong again Karnack! Liability was established within 2 hrs of the accident and well before this post ever started. And as I have previously stated a rear end collison on a stopped vehicle is fairly clear. Please try to trust me its not about the liability, it's about the process.

aardwolf wrote:If it's not worth the time for a police officer to write an accident report when it's a few thousand dollars of damage then the logical conclusion is it's really not worth the time for a police officer to write a ticket for speeding or anything else with a penalty less than a few thousand dollars.

Except when they write the ticket the money goes to the city to help pay them. Minor accident, they get nothing. That is why they are trying to wash their hands of as much of that as they can. But I think it is wrong.

3dfxMM wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:

lws380 wrote:

...Its all about money, ...

{***sigh***} Yepper, everything is about money.

To be fair to the police on this one, the OP's concern was also about money. :)

Wrong. My concern is what I see as the lack of caring by the PD. I'm sure money is their reason for not providing service.
You should not take the small quote from a larger paragraph (from another post) as my concern.

I was involved in a rear ender many years ago. Felt fine at the time. But when I woke up the next day, I could not turn my neck and it hurt big time. So when it appears there are no injuries, it does not mean there will not be any.

I'm surprised when you ask them to do a police report they do not. Its all about money, and someone has come up with a great idea to give little or no service to the community. In the case involved I would guess there is $3,000-5,000 and maybe more damage to both vehicles, the worse being the vehicle that rear ended the stopped vehicle. Its hard to not have a few thousand dollars of dammage even if you sneeze on a vehicle.

AFCop wrote:If you were on private property -- LEO will not do a minor accident report. i.e. private drive, etc. Nothing about a minor accident is questionable. If there are questions that are not easily answered then it is a major accident

Public street

Scenario:

Rear ended in minor fender bender. Leo responds. Says (as Ft Worth policy) he/they will not issue a police report since no one injured and all parties have insurance. Says file blue form with TX DOT and let insurance companies figure it out.

Asked if he would do police report if requested. No! Seems like a bad policy to me and certainly not customer/citizen friendly. Is that a common practice among larger cities? Seems liability is fairly easy in a rear end collision. But in questionable cases and he said she said cases, it seems to me a police report would be beneficial to at least one party.

BTW, CHL was non-issue!