Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jabl 1252 days ago
Yup, that kind of thing can happen. Many years ago I was in Norway with a friend, and a truck cut a corner on the road and scraped the side of my friends car. The truck driver refused any responsibility (evidently because we were tourists, and he knew we weren't gonna stay in Norway to drive claims against him), but we took pictures and all the details etc.

Insurance paid for the repairs to the car, and apparently the insurance company arranged for an outstanding warrant on the truck/driver, and several years later my friend got a notice from the insurance company that the truck driver had been detained upon entering Finland and forced to pay.
1 comments
gggggg5 1252 days ago
The big thing here is that the driver was identified, you got his details.

Same thing does not really happen with camera-issued fines, even if technically feasible given a good quality picture of the drivers face.

link
iso1631 1252 days ago
In the UK and I assume much of Europe, the registered keeper of the car gets the ticket, they have to identifty the driver. If they refuse to identify the driver then they get a separate punishment which is about the same as the speeding ticket.
link
gggggg5 1252 days ago
UK doesn't even send driver identification letters to keepers of foreign registered vehicles due to jurisdictional issues. They just sell the data to a private company that sends intimidating TV licensing-esque letters (but not actual invoices!) in the hopes of getting paid.

>If they refuse to identify the driver then they get a separate punishment which is about the same as the speeding ticket.

This doesn't work unless the keeper is UK based.

link