Originally posted by BillyBong:
I think a drawn out discussion on this is not necessary. However,
like i said, the police saw nothing, and only a broken windscreen.
It could have been shattered by flying pebbles, a separate accident
or so forth.
The victim can claim all he wants, but the aggressor will react
like an angel and whitewash his claims, instead accusing him of
being the aggressor. Without witnesses, there is NO WAY the police
can ascertain the circumstances and make an arrest like what you
claimed. It is totally one word against the other.
Furthermore, in accident cases, [b]EVERYONE LIES. That's a
fact of life. The victim will exaggerate his story while the
culprit will pin the blame on the victim. There is absolutely no
honesty and no morals among drivers under these
circumstances.
This is probably one of the reasons why TP decided to outsource
non-injury related cases. [/b]
while i agree that what we had was a hypothetical discussion, i
do have to bring about a point: it takes a very substantial amount
of force to crack a windscreen, let alone to shatter it. Flying
pebbles won't even cause a scratch on the windscreen, for the glass
has a very high value of impact strength, as well as surface
hardness. And if you didn't know, even in fatal accidents when
people get tossed onto the windscreen, it still stays intact. It
takes a very, very high amount of force to break a windscreen, and
a very high speed of travel before an accident to shatter it from
within.
while under normal circumstances it would be word against word,
like I said, the windscreen will be enough grounds to believe that
something has taken place. this will then lead to the checks, and
subsequent arrest.
while as we both have stressed, the discussion has been purely
hypothetical, I just thought to bring the fact that it takes a
substantial amount of force to crack the windscreen, let alone
break it, to light. 
