Someone Did A Hit And Run On My Car While My Girlfriend Was Driving Me Home From Surgery.
I had a septoplasty with a turbinate reduction (essentially a non cosmetic medical nose job) and when my girlfriend was driving me home from the hosptial a young driver pulled out infront of us at an intersection right when we were passing through so we ended up hitting him. I was holding on to the "oh shit handle" in the passenger seat and when we hit him. I head butted my forearm because I had no time to react or brace. I remember collecting my self and calming my girlfriend down. I rolled my passenger window down , (he hit us in the front right part of my sedan. Bumper, grill, rim, etc. ) he immediately apologized, and I said to pull over right past the intersection on the side of the road. My girlfriend pulled over and I had begun to, for lack of better words, projectile vomit on the side walk. Being sick from anesthetic is normal for me unfortunately. My girlfriend immediately called 911 and both noticed that the driver kept driving down the road without pulling over and stopping. I collected myself and took pictures of my car and was sitting on the side walk when the police showed up. We didn't get his tag at the time but I ended up posting on my community Facebook page and thank whoever was watching out for me because they had a clear as day picture of the car. I have started an insurance claim but I have it on hold because I want the other driver to cover it. I also am not sure what else to do/proceed and I want to do this the best way possible.
Should I pursue pressing charges? What should I do about the fact that I was literally less than 30 minutes recovered from a surgery. It will be two weeks thursday and my nose still feels very sore and hurts to the touch. Not sure if it's just the surgery recovery, or if I could have possibly fucked my nose up again?
To be honest I'm young and dumb and I just want to handle this in the best way possible. Thank you all in advance.
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