Motorbike knocked over by car

Report it to the insurance company, they will investigate and then request the police investigate, this is a clear case of property damage and the police are duty bound to investigate within a reasonable time limit, If they dont investigate then the insurance company can report the inciident to the independant police complaints authority who will investigate, If you contact the police then keep a log of the contex of the conversation who answered it name/number time etc and any promises made. As for the private land excuse, try talking to a solicitor, there is an implied duty of care when they offer free parking despite their notices they have to show a reasonable amount of care for the safety and security of your vehicle, ask the property manager why there are cameras and who is their authorised data protection contact, they have to have them by law. There is a possibility that another camera may have caught the number plate, if you had followed their exit from the park it may have been possible a camera along this route would have got them.
Its a puzzle that when someone is mugged for a few pounds there are enough cameras around to track a single individual across a city centre but if a car causes damage worth 100s no help is available

I live in an apartment building with an underground garage behind locked electronic gates, I park in my allocated spot and had my bike knocked over, no one had any right going anywhere near that spot, but they managed to ram a car into my GS500. The garage is meant to have CCTV, I asked and they said they only covered the entrances and lobby, I called the Police and they said they wont do anything unless someone was injured.
I'm fully insured, but still out $400 excess due to the fact I can't find the person who did it. :(

I think it's criminal to do these things, in my case, they knocked it over, then decided to stand her back up to hide the damage, didn't think i'd notice the side mirror sitting 10 metres away, she fell that hard the mirror went flying, so angry.

I agree with the judge/jury solution, now that I know there aren't any cameras in worthwhile places, it's me, a knife and about 16 sets of tyres.

You should look to find safer places to park the bike, I think i'll be parking in the inside lobby, anyone complains, i'll give them the receipt for my repairs, if I can't have protection in a secured parking lot that I pay for, i'll put her where she is protected.

OK this is what you do - get a hammer and go around the local car parks beating crap out of people carriers until youve got your moneys worth. - works for me.

Pete, that is awesome I would have loved to have seen the look on her face

There is a big issue over this kind of thing. I had parked My landrover in a large store car park with no other vehicles near by. After I had shopped I came out to find the exhaust tail pipe had been hit by something and was bent out from under the vehicle and was touching the rear tyre with broken glass all over the floor too. The stainless steel system had been fitted a week earlier at £240. I found a trolly pusher who said a lady had pulled in, turned to park next to me and ripped her front wing half off doing the damage to my landrover Being parked under a CCTV camera I went to the management and asked to see the tape. I was told the only people who could view the tapes were the police; I pointed out about data protection act and was told they would have to get the other person blanked out as I would only be able to see footage of me or my property NOT the 3rd party. I contacted the police who said as it was not on the highway and in a private store carpark they could do nothing to help me. I asked if this meant that If I decided to drive into a load of cars on a store car park they could do nothing, they also confirmed this!! It is also an issue regarding insurance companies too, as you are on private land not the public highway. Final note. My local Dr has a bay marked for motorbikes to park in. Last time I went down there was a car parked in the bay. SO I parked my bike across the back of the car and locked it in a way that it would not be possible to move unless it was picked up and carried. Went in to see the Dr, came out into the waiting room to head towards the chemists, and was confronted by a lady complaining about my bike being in her way, I replied with 'so you will be the owner of the car parked in the motorbike only signposted bay then' her reply was 'well there were no disabled bays left' my reply 'so you have a disabled badge then?' 'No but I’ve just had an operation'. I went to the chemist, got my prescription, then moved my bike.

Such cavalier behaviour from drivers is not confined to running to parked motorcycles, other cars are just as likely to be bumped or dented.

I say, if the police dont help, become Judge and Jury yourself... It works!!!

24 months ago - my son had a Honda MBX125, which he rode during and after passing his CBT (he now has graduated via a Yamaha 500 radian to a Kawasaki GPZ500 and now owns a Kawasaki Ninja.
During the time he had his little 125 on the road, my next door neighbour took umbridge at the fact that he parked it behind my car (chained to my tow bar for extra safety). We always made sure it never restricted the available space for him to park his car.
More than once, we found my son's bike lying on it's side. These were always times when his bike was parked alone (i.e before I got home with my car) He always used the centre stand and not the side stand to rest the bike.
My son actually witnessed my next door neighbours friend, push his little Honda over, as he walked past it. We had to replace clutch levers, foot pegs and mirrors quite a few times.
When we confronted them about the damage, they denied having anything to do with it!
Did we call the Police?
Nope . . no point!

Being a Doctors surgery, perhaps the person will come back at some point - after all they are probably regsitered with that surgery/practice ....but probably use a partners vehicle??

As someone pointed out, this is what society is turning into...
If someone opens their car door into yours in a car park, I bet 9 out of 10 will just quiety close their door as if nothing happened, and drive off - even move into a different parking spot!

It makes your blood boil to think someone has damaged my property, something I have paid decent money to own, understood what they have done, then disappeared knowing they probably will get away with it......

What comes around goes around, as the saying goes. :-)

I have a feeling that as it is a privately owned car park, even if the driver was caught it is up to him whether or not he complies as the police have no authority over accidents within a private car park, if it was a public car park they would be able to help

My partner and myself run our own business and our unit has been broken in twice, both times we had the police round, finger prints done and the CCTV tape taken away, they asked us if we wanted someone from the Crime Prevention Department to come out to us, we said yes, four years on and we are still waiting, after several phone calls to them to find out if they have any news from the CCTV tape etc, they said someone will phone back, again we are still waiting.

re jon,what if bicycle got stolen or damaged?and what if it happened more than once?Then what?