We got the license plate. Registration turned out to be expired and they don't live at the address anymore. Our Tesla was not drivable after the accident so no way to follow, plus I would never advise my wife to follow some junkie - not worth the risk.
I would not advise the SO to follow either and your vehicle was obviously disabled after that bad crash. Glad your wife was OK tho.
Any witnesses? Without a witness and/or camera there is no way to prove who hit whom in such accidents. I am just going through the same thing where my wife got hit "PIT maneuver style", spun the car out at 60mph into a guard rail, while the other driver drove off with minor damage. Luckily I install dashcams in all my cars from the get-go - I treat them like airbags, always get them and hope to never use them (used them both cams and airbags this time). The deductible savings alone just paid for for both the dashcams, but the fact that the accident record will not go to the underwriters as a reason to raise my insurance rate will continue to pay for itself for years.
Unfortunately witnesses inside the car can be quiet unreliable, even if you exclude the potential bias towards to the driver. A good example was our accident - my wife, who drove the Tesla that was hit, was sure the car spun around 2 or 3 times before coming to a stop. The camera reveals the car only spun around once. Being inside a car what is involved in an accident can skew the recollections quiet a bit. You need a witness who saw it from the outside.
He meant wk057 - infamous Tesla hacker. Yes, while some people hack their cars and can get information like this, if your car continues to drive (i.e. didn't shut off the main battery after the accident) then chances are very good any footage that may have been there has been overwritten since.
Great info. Yea, there's a lot of factors when trying to capture LPs... when objects are moving at high speed you can get blur on the recording if the frames per second is low, so even a higher res recording may not get you what you need if it's blurry because the FPS is low... also, lower light can cause a lot of problems as the iris opens to get the image... blurring of the subject and/or reflections on the glass can cause the camera to focus on the glass and not the subject out side the glass. That is assuming these cams have lower FPS and/or autofocus
