Harris county sheriff’s office sucks

A lady hit me today on 1960. She jumped multiple lanes to try to get into the far left lane. She hit the back passenger tire. The car was pushed to the side & all passengers were jolted over. It sounded bad. I pulled a little further up into a turn lane to be out of the way of main traffic. She ran, I followed. She was driving normally so it was not hard to follow her. Of course 911 was saying to pull over but hell no, I’m driving a brand new car. She stopped at a red light & I hopped out and was banging on her window. All she could say was she was going to church & she had to go. I told her are you insane, no you need to pull over because you hit me. She did not want to pull over so I told her that’s fine stay right here then she said no because of the traffic and finally pulled off into a parking lot. I asked for her drivers license, she said didn’t have one! I said ok well I need your insurance info. She went through some papers and said I don’t have it. At this point I haven’t even looked at my car yet, my passenger was on the phone with 911 & the other was recording everything. I told her well the police should be on the way and she still wanted to leave. She said she didn’t speak much English, 2 tow truck drivers hear the call and showed up. She told them we were trying to make a big deal about this to get a new car out of it. I told her no fucking way lady I’m driving a brand new car already. I finally look at my car and thank god it was not as bad as it sounded. From where she was turning her wheel hit my wheel & my whole tire / rim was scratched up badly and there was a scratch above the fender. She had people on the phone trying to convince me to let her leave before cops arrived I said no. One of her family members shows up and now all of the sudden she produces a state ID that is expired from last year. Then they give me 3 different forms of insurance info. And they still try to leave. I called my insurance explain there is minimal damage but I was concerned there could be something wrong that I couldn’t see at the moment, they wanted a police report. We wait 4 hours before a sheriff shows up. I told him what happened & that she wouldn’t pull over and I followed her for 10 minutes, I told him she has no DL. I show him where she hit me and he basically laughed in my face, asked if it looked like 1k worth of damage, I said idk what 1k worth of damage looks like. He goes to talk to her, comes back and says I can’t file a report because there was no damage to either car. I said there is clearly damage right here and on her car my paint is there where she hit me. He then said the system won’t let me file a report. I said is there ANY documentation you can give me? He said I can get her VIN & says there is a way around to file a report but I don’t want to do that because it will raise your insurance a lot. I asked for a report to be made anyways as I was not worried about the insurance premium being raised, he still declines to do a report. I said okay but she doesn’t have a drivers license, he told me but she has insurance on the car so it’s fine. I said she can drive with no drivers license?????? He said yes because she has insurance. He lets her go. I have never heard of being able to drive with no DL & it’s fucking insane to me that a cop can flat out refuse to do a report also. People continue to do things like this and have no repercussions because the cops won’t enforce the law, they don’t get in trouble & think it’s ok to keep doing it because they are never held accountable!

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