[quote=doofrat]I was a witness once and it really helped the guy out. Guy was in front of me and the light changed. It took him another second or so to go and bam, guy running the light from the right takes off his bumper.
They pulled into a gas station and I had to go around the block to get back.
I pull in and the guy in front of me is all happy to see me because the light runner is saying the guy in front of me ran the light.
Gave him my contact info, but never got a call. I’m assuming that once the light runner was confronted with a witness, he had to take responsibility.
I’ve thought about this a lot lately and have been thinking about getting a cheap dash cam that mounts on the rear view mirror or something to act as a witness in a case like this.[/quote]
This is exactly what happened to me once. A guy ran the red light, and I hit him in the middle of the intersection. Luckily, two different witnesses pulled over and gave me their info. The idiot red-light-runner’s attorney called me a couple of days later saying that the guy had “severe injuries” (he didn’t; we all helped push his car out of the intersection). The witnesses corroborated my story, and I never heard from that attorney again. I am so grateful that these people took the time to pull over and give me their info. Without them, it could have been a very different outcome.
We always pull over if we see any kind of accident. It’s a really big deal to these people.
