Question regarding DSM police

[Cybyassociation]

admitting guilt/paying the fine, doesn't mean you allow more to happen than is required. The officer was held in check with all he needed to do in issuing a ticket. The 'perp' made sure nothing past the minimum took place and kept his privacy intact.

-keep

Keeping my money in my pocket by being polite to officers is more important to me than "keeping them in check".

 

[CycloneErik]

Turns out it's not going to be a big deal. I apparently had gotten rear-ended and the person who was behind me had tried to report it, so it was initially reported as a hit and run. When the cop told me that, I looked at my bumper again and there was a very minor scuff on the back. I told him that I was so focused on avoiding the potential accident that I didn't even feel the bump from behind. I knew I'd successfully avoided hitting the guy in front of me and so I thought everything was fine and kept going. The "damage" to my car isn't worth replacing a back bumper (no dents or cracks, just a scuff), so I won't be sticking it to her on that. Just going to exchange insurance info with her, since she did give hers to a beat cop in the report.

Crisis averted. I'm not going to prison. So you guys are just going to have to put up with me for awhile longer.

Don't get cocky. There's still time.

 

[tm3308]

So, you told the officer that you swerved to avoid an accident . . . which indicates you may have been driving too fast for conditions and may have caused the vehicle behind you to hit you . . . you admitted that you knew there was an incident and you kept going . . . which may indicate that you knowingly left the scene of an accident . . . and you provided insurance information with the other driver . . . which may indicate what sort of coverage you have and whether she should go after you.

I don't think we have heard the end of this story. And I don't think you should have admitted anything to the officer or the other driver.

I never said anything of the sort. I told him I didn't even feel the bump from behind and therefore thought everything was fine. I only admitted to getting bumped after I looked at the car again (which wasn't until I'd been informed that the report said I'd been in an accident). I'd rather admit to unknowingly leaving the scene than saying I wasn't hit, only to have the cops want to inspect the vehicle and discover that I had, in fact, been hit.

 

[tm3308]

Keeping my money in my pocket by being polite to officers is more important to me than "keeping them in check".

That really depends on the circumstances. I was stopped for speeding in Coralville on the night before homecoming 2009 (vs. Michigan), and the cops wanted to search my car because they thought they saw me take a drink. That was total BS, but I'd never been stopped by police before and didn't want any trouble, so I let them search it because I knew they wouldn't find anything. In hindsight, I should have told them to pound sand, since they had no probable cause to search my car. I was just a college-aged kid coming into Iowa City from Cedar Rapids, so they assumed I was just a Kegwood student coming in to enjoy the homecoming festivities. That's not probable cause.