Rent a car?

[negrilmon]

Hi Rob, I would like to think you are correct here but I think I was delaing with some less than equal treatment. This eyewitness account below nails it.

I'm guessing they realized it was a tourist by the color of my skin.

"Hi Negrilmon I think my wife and I saw your accident. It was on Wednesday April 03 arround 2pm and you were driving a wine red 4 door sadan heading towards the roundabout. If this was you I am glad to see no one got hurt. I was very surprized of the reaction of some of the locals who also witnessed the scene. Once they realized it was a tourist they told the other driver to hurry up and leave before you even had a chance to get out of your car. It was a classic hit and run in broad daylight with lots of witnesses."

Those at the police station are locals also so I'm guessing some at the police station had this same attitude.

I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say there is some corruption in Jamaica...

[Ly Shell]

Hi Negrilmon, Sorry to hear you lost your $500 deposit. The lady that gave you the licence number just got off work at the Corral Seas Garden. I was the fellow that gave you directions to the police station. One would think when you rent a car, part of the rent is insurance especially in this case when it was cleary not your fault and you have witnesses that saw what went down. We have friends that live in the Negril area for 6 months of the year for the past 25 years and their comment was "even if you have their licence plate number, chances of pinning it on anyone is next to nil". We almost rented a motorcycle for a few days in which I have lots of experience in and I am glad we did not! Its not me I am worried about, its other drivers and the insurance and medical issues in a foreign country which is cloudy at the best of times. It sucks that you lost your deposit instead of the "car rental insurance" covering this incident.