So by now I'm sure everyone knows that I had an accident on 8/5/03.

Well yesterday I FINALLY got the police report. The police report claims that I am the at fault driver, however I obviously disagree. I feel that the police report is sloppy and that the officer was biased and had made his decision as to fault as soon as he arrived on scene; Basically I feel like I'm a victim of my young age.

If anyone has any experience with contesting police reports, or if you know whether it can even be done I'd appreciate it. Below are the points on what I'm referring to.

1. When the officer arrived on the scene and was prepared to take statements, he took mine first. His first question, and I quote, was:

2. Even after telling my side of the story, his only questions for any clarification were:

3. The police report includes hear-say. It's my fear that if I were to try and contest this, the report would instantly bias the reader due to the following quote:

The officer never asked me about this statement, and I most certainly did not say that at any time following the accident.

4. Throughout the report the officer refers to me as driver 2, vehicle 2. At the end of the report, however, he then refers to me as driver 1.

Based on the above, do you think I have a case on which to proceed? I pride myself on being an attentive driver and had the trucker made a safe lane change, I would NOT have hit him. I was not speeding, however the officer states that I was traveling too fast for prevailing conditions, which IMO is bs.

What do you think? Thanks.

 

Damn Matt im sorry

This won't be the end of it though...

I'm not sure what to do in this situation but I'll BUMP it anyway.

Very Biased view in my opinion from the officer, and the whole car1 and car2 situation is grounds for getting it thrown out.

Damn i hate cops...

 

I should also add that in reading the police report, my insurance adjuster agrees with my feelings about bias (although I have yet to point out the above discrepancies). She also is going to try and classify the accident as not at fault for me (at least in the eyes of the insurance company), which sould prevent my rates from increasing, but I still don't get my deductible back if the other insurance company doesn't accept some liability.

Once I get some things in order, hopefully with help from here and maybe even a lawyer, I'm going to talk it over further with her.

 

hey matt, get me a copy of the report. i work in the reports and analysis section so i can hook you up. email it to me or whatever and also give me a synopsis of what happened (the truth...even if you were at fault i can try to hook ya up) sauranas31@yahoo.com is my email...i can tell you what to write up or something, ill help ya out any way i can bro

josh

 

Thanks, man. I'll try to scan the reports in and e-mail them to you this evening.

Thanks.

 

i had an accident like 1 and half year ago(i wasnt the driver) and i had a little problem on the police report... but my lawyer said we cant change it... the only way just go to the court... but DONT say the police did the wrong report, coz the judge dont like the people to say the police did wrong... and i am so sorry about that... i hope this help...

 

hearing this, just reinforces my (not so nice) opinion toward about 90% of the police officers out there. Granted there are the few that are actually really good about these types of things...but those are few and far between IMO.

(no offense to any po-po's that post here, I know you are NOT ALL bad.)

Good luck man, thats a really crappy situation.....I am sorry to hear about it.

-Ted