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What would you do?

  • 15-08-2005 1:47pm
    #1
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭


    Just talking to a mate - she was driving home and heard a noise.
    She pulled up and saw a wing mirror on an old car smashed on the ground.
    She thought at first she clipped it with her wing mirror(she did hear something), but there's only a tiny scratch on her own wing mirror... and it never moved.
    She wants to pay for any damage she may have caused, but now she's not 100% sure it was her.
    It could have been knocked before I she then drove over it.

    What would you do?
    Would you wait around til the person comes back?
    Write a note for the person and put it on their windscreen giving your details?
    Go to the local Garda station with the details?

    Just wondering.... I heard one similar story where a bloke wrote the details on a note and left it on the windscreen. He had put a small scratch on a car.
    He got a letter from a solicitor a few weeks later looking for way over the damaged caused, and they had him since he admitted liability in the note.
    Nasty...


Comments

  • #2
    JungleBunny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭JungleBunny


    Well if it's completely smashed, chances are she drove over it after it had been knocked off by someone else.
    If there are any cctv cameras in the area, that could prove she did or did not do it, even if she does admit to the damage.


  • #3
    azezil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    I'd find it unlikely that, if her mirror didn't move that she could have hit the other persons mirror with sufficient force to knock it off, assuming it wasn't already damaged, in either case I wouldn't worry about it.


  • #4
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    If i were in the situation, i.e not fully knowing whether i damaged the wing mirror or not, chances are I'd just drive off and not think about it again.
    Afterall, if she waits around then even if the wing mirror was broken before at no fault of hers, the owner might just blame her anyway (if they realise that she half thinks it was her fault) so as to not have to pay for it themselves.

    If she leaves a note, then the owner of the car might go and get a over-estimated price to fix it and/or claim she did more damage than just the wing mirror.
    Since it is only a wing mirror, I'd just leave, especially if i was only 50% sure i was to blame.


  • #5
    joejoem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭joejoem


    Id sayt someone clipped it and broke it and drove on, it could have been hanging on "by a thread" and her tip was enough to knock it off completely.


    On the other hand it could have been aliens.


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