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I was recently involved in an accident. I was driving down a residential street and a man who was driving with his girlfriend as passenger was exiting his residential parking lot and hit my back right side of my fender. Upon exiting my car to assess the damage I realized I had none, and the other man asked if we can just not report this as it was a mistake and a light accident and all his car had was a few scratches. I obliged, having been in a rush and realizing that the other person might not have great insurance. So we both entered our cars and drove away. 2 streets later I realize he followed me and I begin to enter a small slightly heated debate about the accident. He asked "so what are you gonna do about my car" and I laughed it off and told him I was the victim and i have no obligation to do anything and that I did him a favor by not calling the cops. His girlfriend the exclaimed that they had my license plate number and drove off.
A week later I was sent a letter that I was involved in a hit and run and that I was written down as the potential party at fault. What are my options?
Assuming you can't get in your time machine and go back and report the accident when it happened...
who was the letter from? police? his lawyer? Unfortunately, you may end up having to pay a lwyer for some help. Otherwise, if from police, call them and get your version on the record.
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I was recently involved in an accident. I was driving down a residential street and a man who was driving with his girlfriend as passenger was exiting his residential parking lot and hit my back right side of my fender. Upon exiting my car to assess the damage I realized I had none, and the other man asked if we can just not report this as it was a mistake and a light accident and all his car had was a few scratches. I obliged, having been in a rush and realizing that the other person might not have great insurance. So we both entered our cars and drove away. 2 streets later I realize he followed me and I begin to enter a small slightly heated debate about the accident. He asked "so what are you gonna do about my car" and I laughed it off and told him I was the victim and i have no obligation to do anything and that I did him a favor by not calling the cops. His girlfriend the exclaimed that they had my license plate number and drove off.
A week later I was sent a letter that I was involved in a hit and run and that I was written down as the potential party at fault. What are my options?
If this happened exactly how you laid it out in your post, it sounds like some kind of a planned scam. According to your account of the events, the other driver acknowledged the scratches on his car before he suggested not reporting the accident. It's not like he did not notice the scratches until you had driven off (again, still at his suggestion).
The fact that his girlfriend (i.e. a witness) was with him to back him up, also points to scam. I'm assuming you were alone in your car.
Now it's your word against 2 other peoples'.
The aggressive move of following you for 2 blocks, the "what are you gonna do about my car?" and the "I have your license plate" scare tactic seem very shady to me. They were pulling out of a parking lot and hit the back of your car, correct? How do they plan on spinning that into your fault? Again, it's your word against theirs. (And, for that matter, the scratches on their car might ALREADY have been there before they hit you.) I'm guessing their story is going to be that you were backing up in the street.
As for the letter, I'll repeat HalfFull's question: WHO WAS THE LETTER FROM?
Also is there anyway that there might have been any witnesses to the incident? Or cameras on the street?
Also is there anyway that there might have been any witnesses to the incident? Or cameras on the street?
yeah....come up with a place that you were that day, and ask them to prove you hit them. i don't see how they can prove it. what if i wrote some license plate number down on the way home today and called in a hit and run?
Second of all, what, exactly does the letter say? Does it accuse YOU of hitting THEM?
Third of all, when you say it's from "a detective"...are you talking about a private investigator (which can be made up), or is it an official letter from the actual police department of that town?
They hit me. and the letter was from an actual detective and was handed to my mother, who the car is registered to, BY the detective who works in her building because she works for the county.
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