This involved a family member, not me. Neighborhood is a private neighborhood in Morison. Not gated, but only one road in. Roads in the neighborhood are maintained by the HOA. The residents legally drive golf carts all over their roads. Carts do NOT need to be plated and it is common practice. On Friday evening my relative slammed on brakes and veered to the side of the road in order to miss 3 deer. Car clobbered a rock and lodged said rock under the front diff. Car would not move forward or back. Rock was NOT in somebodies yard, but rather in a common area. Who owns that common area I am not sure. Could be the HOA, could be open space. Rock was 2 feet from the road so it is not like the car was blocking the road, and it did not go cruising through the open space. Being the car would not move and it was later in the evening, the car was left until morning when a tow truck was called to get the car. When they went to the car location (2 blocks from their house) to meet the tow truck, there was a state patrol there doing a workup on the "scene". The driver got a ticket for careless driving and fleeing the scene of an accident. There was NO property damage to the rock, or any property other than the car. The driver is questioning the if the State Patrol's citations are valid being that it was private property.
Anybody have experience with this kind of stuff?