Hit and Run Accident
We were driving north on highway 680 at 65-70 MPH after a get together at a friend's place on Saturday night, remained straight in the lane. Bang, our car almost started spin. After stabilize the car and pull over to the road side, the red car causing the accident just fled away.
Praise the Lord, although my wife was a little bit panic, both of us and our two young children in car seats at the back are safe. It was dark and things happened fast, we were not capable to get the license plate before we can start thinking, and no one else stopped. Therefore, although we have Uninsured Motorist policy with Allstate, the damage to our 2000 Honda Accordit is not covered, bummer.
CHP officers shown up from nowhere in 10 minutes(we were kind of dumb to call insurance first before 911), ask me what do I want to do. This is kind of ironic when I would like him to tell me what can he do. The officer then wrote a collision report for us.
I am disappointed that CHP made no attempt to chase or intercept the suspect, and there is no a effective system to find the suspect when you don't get the license plate. At lease one thing can be improved is to require bodyshop to report damage over $750 just like how DMV requires car owners to do so.
Now I can only hope some witness got the license plate and is willing to report to CHP.
