Hello collective wisdom,
So I got sideswiped a couple weeks ago by a girl who ran a stop sign and turned left into my driver's side. Then she tried to keep driving. I was able to pull her over and get all her information, she was extremely apologetic and kept saying it was "all her fault." Which it obviously was. There was not much damage to my car other than a broken headlight cover and a scrape on the side, so I took pity on her and did not call the cops. We both have GEICO insurance, so I got her policy number and filed a report the next day. And waited. And waited. Finally a few days ago I heard back that after repeated attempts by GEICO to contact her, she would not return the calls or make a statement, and lacking a police report (despite the fact that from my description of events it makes it clear she was at fault) they were dropping the case.
First of all...yes, playing the nice guy and not calling the cops was probably a dumb move. Somehow I still trust people to do the right thing. Secondly, I'm not necessarily concerned about the money aspect, but I feel like this girl, who is likely college age, needs to learn a bleeping lesson. If I did something like that at her age, I would hope to be shown that it's always better to not behave like an asshole, because it will eventually catch up to you. I have her contact info and know where she works. How do you think I should follow up with this?