[Prudence]

There's just too much of it happening. Up here, they won't even take a police report if the damage is under some specified dollar amount. I was sideswiped on the freeway by a pickup truck going goodness only knows how fast. At that time, the threshold was $350. The state patrol officer was very nice and came out to make sure the damage wasn't over the limit, but as it wasn't he wasn't permitted to make a report. I did have the license plate number of the other driver and he did make it a point to give them a lecture (they'd been driving while smoking pot), but beyond that there wasn't much he was allowed to do.

Heck, my dad's newish car was nearly totalled by a hit and run the happened right in front of a bus shelter with dozens of witnesses. Partial plate, other car info was readily available and offered, but since he wasn't injured the officers couldn't even interview witnesses to follow-up.