I WONDER if you would highlight a problem I experienced on Sunday, October 13, on the car park of Asda at Astley Bridge.

On returning to my car with the shopping, four young people came over from the next car to inform me that someone had hit my car. I looked at the side of the car they were indicating to discover a large scrape down the length of the car from the driver's door to the front end of the wing, with a dent in the middle of the driver's door. The young people, who had waited to tell me about the incident, pointed out the car that had caused the damage.

The car was in the pick-up point at the front of the store. I naturally presumed that the driver had gone to customer services to report the incident. Of course this was not the case as it turned out, but I had asked one of the car park attendants to watch for the driver and inform them that I wished to speak to them. I approached the lady in question and asked for her details to enable me to sort the damage out. She immediately denied hitting my car, but, as her vehicle had my dark blue paint over the front corner under the bumper on the passenger side, and my car had the same light blue paint, it was difficult for her to deny.

After inspecting both cars she proceeded to get into her car and attempt to drive off. I stood in front of her car and refused to move until she gave me her details, she continually drove the car into my legs until I was forced to jump on the bonnet. When she stopped moving I was able to get off and, luckily, another gentleman had taken her registration number. Upon arriving home I called the police, who informed me that, because it was on private ground, they were not interested and I would have to pursue the matter privately.

If I had been killed, would the police take the same stance I wonder? It is no surprise that crime figures are going down if they will not let you report a crime, as I see this is, wherever it happened. solve.

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