Many years ago, I edged out of a junction (from a minor road to a major road) where the view was obscured by a HGV parked immediately before the junction. It was late, maybe 22:30 and as I was edging out further still. I still didn't have a view of the oncoming traffic but couldn't see any headlights so I gunned it. A White (or light coloured) Sierra smashed straight into my front wing. The force of the impact span the car around so I am now facing in the direction I had travelled from.
A little dazed, I attempted to open the drivers door, which wouldn't open. I was just about to climb over to the passenger seat and I hear a wheelspin (lots of). I look into the rear view mirror and see the Sierra speed off.
My instinct was to restart the stalled car that I was driving, stick it in reverse and give chase! I tried,, but the impact had destoryed the O/S front suspension.
In this instance, lets pretend the other party DID have their headlights on (which they didn't), I was in the wrong. I was at fault. I pulled out of a junction and was hit by someone minding their own business.
The more likely turn of events is the Sierra driver was pissed, or high on drugs, or a car thief and just wanted to distance themselves as far away from the scene of an accident as possible.
Police wanted nothing to do with it, and almost treated me as a criminal. I wasn't a very experienced driver at the time. As you would suspect, I had to foot the bill for the repairs to a nearly new Mk6 Escort of which I had owned for a matter of weeks.
That car was never the same.