This has been going on for decades in California.
About 20 years ago, a MD friend was rear ended by a beaner mobile old/rusty pickup, loaded with the south of the border types.
They got out of the pickup and went to the side of the road beyond were the accident was. Then, they hitchhiked out of the area,leaving their pickup. No one checked on our MD friend.
Our MD friend was still in his vehicle with a severe neck injury. Being a doctor, he told him self not to move with a neck injury.
In about 3-5 minutes, all of the passengers in their now disabled/abandoned pickup had caught rides and left the area.
Finally a cop came up and told the doctor to move the vehicle, the MD told the cop to order an ambulance or he would sue the cop in civil court. The ambulance had to come down the opposite lane of the 4 lane road.
They put a neck brace on his neck and took him to the nearest emergency room. He was in a neck brace for months.
His relatively new vehicle was totaled, and the city tried to charge him with towing away the pickup that rammed him.
His BIL was a high end sue them and win lawyer, and he got that bs cancelled. The insurance company tried to back out of their uninsured driver of the other car policy until his BIL had a closed door session with them.
Since then all of our vehicles have the uninsured other guy/driver policy, and we have the card of the MD’s BIL lawyer.
Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.
I think I’ll start looking around for a BIL lawyer. As the referee says before a boxing match: “Gentlemen, protect yourself at all times”.