Rubber_Johnnie wrote:So in my case when I attended the station and filled out the report and the officer came and looked at my car etc, that would have counted, but phone calls / verbal reports don't. Makes sense I guess. Would you recommend not bothering with verbal reports / phone calls then as nothing will come of them, and it would be sort of wasting the officer's time?
I dont know where you live or the circumstances around what happened to you, but if a report was written out and made then it sounds like a report was done. Was it a fail to stop accident? This sort of thing is reported.
Verbal reports and phone calls can still be very useful, it may be a local vehicle that is known to police, and if it's details are circulated it may be that a police unit sights it and decides to stop it. It could lead to all sorts of successful scenario's.