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[pgm]

can anyone enlighten me as to what the best course of action is if involved in an incedent with a vehicle on foreign plates on?
I am only asking because of a close call I had last night on my way home.

While waiting to turn right at some lights a silver BMW 3 series pulled up beside me (two right turn lanes) with the obvious intention of jumping the traffic queueing at the lights. When the lights changed he was caught out not paying attention and I pulled slightly ahead so in his poor judgement he booted his car off the line on the wet road luckily I was paying attention and braked as he did a complete 180 just missing the front of my car and now facing me   . If I hadn't been aware he would have hit me and I would be faced with two young lads probably not english speaking do I call the police for a minor RTA or try and sort it out myself?

Paul

PS does anyone knoe which country is represented by the letters LV

[rachelbelmont2005]

I think LV is Latvia?

Can't help on the rest but would be interested to know, especially due to the near miss we had where a Polish registered motorbike nearly landed on our bonnet!

[Cubes]

Most foreign wagon drivers carry their insurance certificate (which looks just like a small folded card) with them. They're not too hard to decipher. Just get all of the details of them and give them to your insurance company and they can sort it with their liaison officers.
It's not so straight forward with private motor vehicles. If you can get there insurance details then see above. If not, then you might struggle a bit. Just get as many details as you can of the vehicle and the driver (including description) and forward them. If there's an offence involved (eg going through a red light) then the DVLA, via the police, can issue points by creating a 'ghost licence' which will be valid while they are over here, enabling them to get banned if they continue to be naughty.

I guess the short answer would have been call the police! At least they can go to the home/visitor's address if necessary. Traffic police are usually good at this sort of thing.

Hope this helps

[V70Ben]

If its a foreign car, I'd be phoning the police regardless, heard too many horror stories...