California Motor Vehicle and or Criminal Law Question

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

This past weekend a friends car was severely damaged when a tow truck towing an adjacent vehicle smashed her parked car. Her undrivable car was left abandoned for her to find at 1:00 in the morning. A security guard from a nearby building approached her and told her the accident was on their security camera and let her wait for a taxi in their lobby.

The towing company responsible is being completely uncooperative. Her insurance company is treating the incident as though it was a hit and run and will pursue the towing company directly. The question is could the tow truck driver be charged with leaving the scene of an accident or anything else. She is ready to murder somebody but making this asshole significantly uninsurable would probably be sufficient.

The property owner says they have no idea what happened, assume it was a repossession and have never heard of the towing company involved. There doesn't appear to be any reason to doubt them on this.

The 2007 Prius appears to be a write-off, but that is for the insurance company to decide.

Thanks,