Originally Posted by
degnaw
No, I never heard back.
And yes, the camera did catch the plate. Its an HD 720p camera - my new camera, incidentally, is a lot worse at getting plates because the wide angle fisheye lens shows less detail.
I'm sorry to read this. I hope that you have an opportunity to follow up at some point.
I suspect that unless your camera's resolution is high enough to catch something about the driver inside the vehicle, chances are that simply seeing the car swerve -- it appears relatively gradual by my eye -- towards you might not be enough evidence to actually charge the driver. But as in the case with the LA doctor, I think reporting these events and creating a history is important.
Originally Posted by
CB HI
I read the plate aloud to catch it on the audio (just in case).
That makes sense.
Originally Posted by
dynodonn
Of the motorists that I've reported so far, they were going too fast to visually read their license plates until I downloaded my video and reviewed the incident frame by frame. Degnaw's incident looked to be a similar situation.
I would think that it depends on the
direction the driver is going after the close call. In this case it happens so fast and the driver is so far away so quickly, that catching the license plate would be very difficult. I'm impressed with these modern cameras that they could id the plates.
EDITED because of silly mistakes on my part.