If you ever have an American visiting, take a walk around the train station for fun. Guaranteed that he will be amazed by the peloton of bicycles that are stacked two floors high in the parking facilities. Things that are very normal in one country are very special for people from other countries.
So is the cool handling of the police officer on the other end of the line in the video at the bottom of this page. The driver of the car with the dashcam is tapped on the highway by another car. The driver of the white car does not stop neatly to exchange data, but quickly takes off. The videographer gives chase and in the meantime calls the police.
A strange phone call
What follows is a crazy conversation with the employee of the emergency center. Instead of the police wanting to know where the fleeing driver is driving (let alone if everyone is okay), the person on the other end of the line is fixated on where the collision occurred. There seems to be no sense of urgency at all at the police station.
The driver tries to give directions where a police car should go, but the officer keeps asking about the location of the collision. There seems to be no intention whatsoever to solve this case of driving away after a collision. Even when the driver of the white car eventually stops, the police don’t want to know where they are.
Why is the agent so fixated on the location?
If you call 112 in the Netherlands, you will be put through to the police in the municipality where you are located. If you then drive into another municipality or province, the units there will be signaled by the police. We don’t know exactly how it works in America, but this operator finds it complicated in any case. The officer is so focused on the location of the collision because he wants to know which jurisdiction it falls under, and thus which police unit to send. It takes a while for him to explain this to the caller.
That doesn’t come across as very thoughtful or sympathetic, by the way. The telephone conversation with the police takes so long that the driver of the white car loses patience and leaves. The police may not be interested in that either.
The driver of the white car is allowed to drive away, apparently
The state of Michigan, where this incident took place, is apparently a so-called no fault state. This means that everyone is individually insured for their own damage. The videographer only has to recover his own damage from the insurer, the driver of the hit & run has nothing else to do with that. “It has no effect on anything if she leaves,” emphasizes the officer on the line.
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