Edit: I don’t see anywhere on the Boise PD website where I can report a regular traffic accident. I see the option for crimes such as hit and runs, and then report for an abandoned vehicle. Also, I have talked to insurance, the cops, as well as the manager at Fred Meyer: I cannot get the footage from Fred Meyer any other way aside getting a subpoena via opening a lawsuit.
Original Post: I was leaving Fred Meyer when an employee began pushing carts into the lane, so I stopped to let them proceed. As I was waiting, a woman in an older silver Mercedes sedan backed into my driver side rear door. We exchanges information and I put in a claim, and of course she’s claiming not at fault and is telling her insurance a completely different story.
A police report was not taken because cops don’t fucking take reports on private property—one did show up and got me her insurance ID, which was good because I wouldn’t have gotten it otherwise. She said she didn’t have it and “didn’t know why,” but now I think she was lying.
Anyway, Fred Meyer does have cameras. but the footage has to be subpoenaed, and I will have to actively sue her to allow a lawyer to do that. Which I will, if Geico still claims not at fault after I have the notes from the repair sent to them. I’ll sue her for the repairs, and the stress purely out of principle.
However, if anyone saw this happen, please let me know—I know a couple of people stopped to ask her if she was okay because her arm was in a cast and she seemed disoriented (she told me she had broken several ribs, and her arm in two places, so I’m not convinced she wasn’t on pain killers since everything she said was slow and slurred).
Also, if anyone has had a similar experience locally and hired a lawyer that you ended up liking, please drop your recommendations.
I doubt she will see this, but if you do see this Akberet, please just tell the truth and save me the trouble. We both know what that footage is going to show.