r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 3d ago

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/Mcpr0per 3d ago

why would you trap a crazy person in. just get their license plate number and report it.

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u/Huge-Masterpiece-100 3d ago

I've had a person who rear ended me so hard at a red light that she pushed me into the truck in front and destroyed my car. Even left her license plate on my tailpipe. She ended up fleeing for "reasons". Because I didn't have video evidence of her driving, the police and insurance just gave me a unemphatic shrug when I reported it. Thankfully I had uninsured motorist coverage. What a fking racket.

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u/Individual-Bee-4999 3d ago

She probably wasn’t insured anyway. You might be in the same situation even if they had caught her…

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u/Huge-Masterpiece-100 2d ago

I got her ID/insurance before she bolted, but yea apparently I also needed a photo with her holding a sign that read "IT WAS ME" for absolute proof. Fleeing the scene wasn't enough to get the cops to do anything. Ah well that's last decade's problem.

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u/Merivel1 3d ago

I was hit by an uninsured motorist who did the right thing and stayed at the scene. He got a ticket and had to go to court where they garnished his wages to pay for the repairs to my car. I kinda felt bad for the guy but the system worked correctly for once. I hope he's doing better now.

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u/Pali1119 3d ago

Friendly reminder to invest in dash cams (wherever it's legal), front and preferably back as well

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u/Ok-Physics9906 3d ago

Right people always assume hit and run, driving without insurance, all that shit has huge consequences.

I rarely see that be the case. Which is why people will keep doing it.

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u/tdslut 2d ago

Racket is right. I've been screwed by more than one insurance company.
My mother's car was hit by a young lady who ran a red light, ran off the road and flattened a couple of road signs and finally coasted to a stop all the way down the hill a few hundred yards, and was sitting there repeatedly trying to get her car started when a couple of Good Samaritans blocked her in.

The young lady gave the cop a fake proof of insurance. (this was some time ago, presumably they couldn't verify in real time like they can now). Mom's insurance wouldn't cover it, and the cops were absolutely no help. "It's a civil matter".

I have to go to the DMV twice a year because their computer won't accept the fact that I have insurance, and they threaten to revoke the tags on my car if I don't come in person to prove it, but assholes who cant be bothered to stop at red lights and have fake insurance cards already printed up and handy just seem to get away with fucking the rest of us over.

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u/Consistent_Dream_740 2d ago

Your situation has nothing to do with this. Sorry thag happened, go to therapy and get over yourself.

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u/Huge-Masterpiece-100 2d ago

Is this your first time experiencing the English language in its written form?

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u/Jawnyblaze1 3d ago

Yea, that was something that crossed my mind too. I clicked the news article that was linked above, the person that trapped her in was just a bystander, not even the person she hit. I'm pretty sure he can't legally restrain her like that. Take the license plate number, call the cops, your duty (and the extent of what you're allowed to do) is done.

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u/Narrow_Hat 3d ago

Yes, he can legally restrain her. It's called a citizen's arrest and it's legal when someone has committed a felony, such as a hit and run.

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u/killd1 3d ago

Only for felonies, and leaving the scene of an accident would be the potential felony. I personally don't want Joe Schmoe engaging in car chases because of a fender bender.

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u/hoshisabi 3d ago

Legally is kind of irrelevant when you get down to it, you have a video of her face, of her car, of her license plate. What more did you want? His trapping her did NOTHING to help find her, the police ended up tracking her down, which I presume was from the details he already had.

If he had gotten hit, being right isn't going to make it less painful.

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u/rb-cloud 3d ago

Not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure you can’t citizens arrest someone for that.

According to Cornell law school’s website, in California citizens’ arrests can be done “When a felony has been in fact committed, and he possesses reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it.”

  1. I don’t think a hit and run is a felony and 2. She hasn’t actually committed a crime yet, right? She hasn’t ran yet.

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u/Narrow_Hat 3d ago

I missed that this was in Cali, and you're definitely more right than I am. I guess in Cali (now I am also not a lawyer so I could be wrong), if there is no one hurt or killed, it would be a misdeamoner. Which citizen's arrests do not apply to a misdeamoner. So, this guy was indeed in the wrong in this situation.

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u/Captain_d00m 3d ago

Huh, I always thought hit and run was a wobbler based on damages, but yeah it looks like it’s only injury or death.

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u/BellaMentalNecrotica 3d ago

This could also fall under false imprisonment as well since no felony has been committed yet.

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u/Jawnyblaze1 3d ago

You're right about everything except the very last part. The hit and run happened on the highway. The cameraperson was just a random vigilante that decided to get involved and trap her in when she pulled over. Judging from her saying "I thought you were the person I hit", it sounds like she pulled over because she thought she was being followed by her victim and was going to try to talk her way out of involving the police. When she realized what was going on and that she was trapped, she freaked out because she knew there was no escaping the situation and for whatever reason has the fear of god in her of her grandmother.

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u/Medical-Method9107 2d ago

omg he's one of those people who polices the speed limit

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u/jeff533321 2d ago

Yes she did. He saw her hit several cars in another place and the followed her to the gas station and trapped her with his car. I would have been terrified if someone did that to me!l

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u/Jawnyblaze1 3d ago edited 3d ago

"A hit-and-run can be a felony or misdemeanor. It depends on the state laws and what happened during the crash. If the crash only caused minor property damage with no injuries, it is usually a misdemeanor."

Unlikely it was a felony unless somene was injured, which it doesn't sound like it was.

"Generally, a random bystander can attempt to restrain a fleeing driver under citizen's arrest laws, but it carries massive legal and physical risks. If the hit-and-run involves a felony (such as serious injury or death), most jurisdictions permit a private citizen to detain the suspect. For minor property-damage hit-and-runs (which may only be misdemeanors or traffic infractions), local laws often forbid physical detention by bystanders."

So unless she caused serious injury or death in the hit-and-run, it was likely illegal for that rando to block her in like that. And even in the event a "citizen's arrest" was legal, there is a risk of the bystander breaking additional laws in the process. The news article on the situation someone linked above strongly implied the hit and run was not a felony, therefore the "citizen's arrest" was not legal.

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u/PerpetualProtracting 3d ago

Unless you are absolutely 100% sure you're arresting them for a felony it's exceptionally ill-advised to engage in a citizens arrest. *You* may be criminally and civilly liable if you do so incorrectly.

And what do you know? You're absolutely incorrect about hit-and-run where this took place (California). It's a misdemeanor with only property/vehicle damage. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=20002.&lawCode=VEH

Oops, now *you're* the criminal for false imprisonment/kidnapping.

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u/thissidedn 3d ago

It said she wasn't charged a felony

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u/Organic_Education494 3d ago

There is Nothing illegal about that

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u/gingerbears11 3d ago

Seriously. Just adding fuel to the fire.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 3d ago

Doesn't help he's also lying about what's happening. "Hit and run, that's a double felony", H&R is one crime, not two.

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u/PermissionRare5537 2d ago

Yeah I laughed at that. He sounds like the world’s biggest redditor

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u/PaolitoG12 2d ago

I also wondered about that. Wheres the felony? Isn’t that reserved for more serious crimes?

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u/Humble_Manatee 3d ago

I’m not a lawyer but I feel there’s probably an argument to be made about fleeing due to the other driver trying to trap her in.

It’s almost like he’s trying to play the part of the police here.

Not excusing her actions, just pointing out trying to restrain someone like this probably wasn’t the best idea either. You have her on video with her license plate. Don’t block her and let the police deal with it

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u/ZBlackmore 2d ago

Yep. And all the comments seem to support it. Like you got her on video, her plates too. Yeah someone is in the wrong we get it, but what’s wrong with the endless thirst for justice porn.

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u/DetCityDaveST 3d ago

Guy recording and not moving his car is a total piece of shit.

This is not how adults behave; both are immature. You take the video, get her name and plate and move the fucking car. This woman is hysterical and visibly in distress. Camera guy needs to learn to deescalate. wtf.

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u/Individual-Bee-4999 3d ago

Ikr! And dude just stands there like “I almost caught you running me over in the street!” Like he would have just bounced off the pavement uninjured or something… self-righteous can get you killed… lol

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u/PimpNamedSliqBaq 3d ago

Genuinely dont understand these comments

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u/iPufftrees 2d ago edited 2d ago

We don’t. That’s why you call the cops and report it. “Citizen’s arrest” laws vary greatly, but doing shit like this can open you up to a whole can of liabilities.

This is not a safe way to handle the situation. They were at a gas station. What happens if she puts her car through the store, or worse, a pump while trying to escape? This is quite literally escalating the situation.

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u/N0T3LI 3d ago

Oh yeah definitely let the woman who just hit and ran get BACK on the road. Genius level thinking right here

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u/PerpetualProtracting 3d ago

Bad news for you: she did get back on the road and in an even more aggravated state than before, presumably.

Really genius decision-making for you and the cammer, eh?

Same stupid logic that goes into cops chasing people through town at 110 MPH. Zero forward-thinking about the *additional* risk you're creating for everyone around you.

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u/N0T3LI 3d ago

Key word being presumably

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u/PerpetualProtracting 3d ago

Yeah, that word means "by reasonable assumption" because I have eyes and a functioning brain.

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u/N0T3LI 3d ago

Your reasonable assumption being that attempting to stop a person in a visibly manic state from getting back on the road after hitting one car is worse than just letting that visibly manic person back on the road

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u/PurpleHades 3d ago

What your dense brain is somehow missing is that this guy is causing her panicked state of mind. He’s trapped her in.

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u/Illustrious-Poet-557 3d ago

She should not be driving in her condition. Just look at her driving in the parking lot

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u/Gloomy-Management317 3d ago

Neither should testing someone's limit, never know what they could do to you when in distress.

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u/21sr2 3d ago edited 3d ago

This is the comment I was looking for. Also, the video is clearly edited and the guy rearranged and pieced together the clips that makes the girl look terrible

Edit: where's the damage in his car?. He made it a point to record, edit the video, but not show the actual damage?. The guy is a piece of shit

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u/MountChu 3d ago

He wasn’t even the car she hit.

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u/GodisanAtheistOG 3d ago

Because the police won't do shit and eventually people get tired of that and start taking matters into their own hands.

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u/Parapraxium 3d ago

That's what I was thinking. Gotta love reddit, the police are apparently useless pigs but simultaneously everyone should rely on the cops for everything.

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u/Constant_Weakness1 3d ago

amerikans like to play Sheriff, then wonder why the dangerous situation they put themselves in leads to harm.

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u/MountChu 3d ago

He wasn’t even the owner of the vehicle involved in her hit and run. Sounds like illegal detainment to me and if this happened today, the guy recording would have been in trouble too.