Had a prang, need some general advice

[hannem]

Hi all,
Just had a prang this afternoon at a roundabout. It was a roundabout where the right lane goes straight on and the left lane has to turn left.

I am driving down the road, young bloke in a small white 2 door is following me, I come up to the roundabout and go on through and the next thing I know this idiot is at the front left of my car and I hit him right at the rear right wheel arch with my front left corner, this causes him to spin 180 degrees.

Obviously he has fanged it into the left turning lane and tried to undertake me but could not get back in front of me in time and we have connected.

I pull up next to him and as he has spun around, our drivers doors are facing each other and I just look at him and next thing I know he hits the juice and buggers off.

Great just what I need is a chase, so I too hit it, do a U bolt and take off after him, with plenty of people just gawking with mouths open. (Don't blame them)

Catch up to him and after a few streets he decides to pull over (luckily he was not hooning too bad this time) I jump out and start paying out on him. He looks crushed at what he has just done and loses it a bit more when he sees my 4 year old daughter in the back seat.

I calm down a bit and he is begging me not to call the cops on him. He is dying just to get home so I take his wallet and follow him the short distance to a house.

This is where he spills the beans and says it is his girlfriends car, the house he went to is his mates house and he has just left work after downing two long necks (6 standard drinks) and really does not want the cops involved, yeah no wonder. Turns out he is 25 and full license.

I start to rip him a new bum hole but calm down a bit as I can see that he is really panicking about losing his license and facing a huge fine, he is also ready to cry at this stage.

He explains that he works at a smash repair place and has been there for 9 years and would like it very much if we can fix the car there.

I tell him that if I get stuffed around one little bit I will head off to my insurance and talk to the cops. (Too late for the cops by then probably)

Anyway the whole reason for this post is to see what you think about his boss at work, because this young fool said his boss watched him have the two beers and then let him head off.

I reckon his boss has a duty of care to abide by here and will have a nice chat to him when I go down there.

Hmmm, still not sure whether to get the car fixed by them or not. Problem is for him he will get shafted by the insurance if I go to them. Might be a nice finish off lesson for him to fix it out of his own pocket and in his own time.

Probably some of you out there won't approve of me letting him off but that's just how the cookies crumbled this particular time.