Connecticut
My wife hit a parked car (no one inside) as she reversed, She drove out of panic, switched driving with me, and we continued on our way. As we headed home within an hour, we came upon the police who were called by the car's current user. It turned out that we were driving without insurance, suspended registration and evasion of the accident was cited. All of this we readily admitted to the police and the other party and my wife was issued a summons. We took it upon ourselves to compose a letter to the other party, offering our apologies of the incident and offering to pay any reasonable amount for the damage. The damage was a slight dent of the hood near the latch. As we found out later, the car was actually owned by the party's uncle and a conversation the next day resulted in advising the other party to contact her uncle with our phone number to discuss the matter.
A week has past and there has been no contact. Also, we have heard conversations by the other party looking to enrich herself over the matter and it has turned a bad situation even worse. It was further complicated by a police call by this party, accusing us of bike theft ( a charge yet to be proven as the police have not returned with any investigation result), a purely fictional accuation brought out by her snopping into our personal storage area without permission. It is clear that reasonable dialogue will be difficult, if not impossible to resolve the matter, especially since the other party falsely claims passengers were inside the car during the accident. Yet, I do realize that our uninsured, unregistered and evasive charges are serious enough to make us nearly entirely liable. Is there any advice (beyond getting insurance and registration done, which we did afterwards) that would fit this situaton?>What is the name of your state?
My wife hit a parked car (no one inside) as she reversed, She drove out of panic, switched driving with me, and we continued on our way. As we headed home within an hour, we came upon the police who were called by the car's current user. It turned out that we were driving without insurance, suspended registration and evasion of the accident was cited. All of this we readily admitted to the police and the other party and my wife was issued a summons. We took it upon ourselves to compose a letter to the other party, offering our apologies of the incident and offering to pay any reasonable amount for the damage. The damage was a slight dent of the hood near the latch. As we found out later, the car was actually owned by the party's uncle and a conversation the next day resulted in advising the other party to contact her uncle with our phone number to discuss the matter.
A week has past and there has been no contact. Also, we have heard conversations by the other party looking to enrich herself over the matter and it has turned a bad situation even worse. It was further complicated by a police call by this party, accusing us of bike theft ( a charge yet to be proven as the police have not returned with any investigation result), a purely fictional accuation brought out by her snopping into our personal storage area without permission. It is clear that reasonable dialogue will be difficult, if not impossible to resolve the matter, especially since the other party falsely claims passengers were inside the car during the accident. Yet, I do realize that our uninsured, unregistered and evasive charges are serious enough to make us nearly entirely liable. Is there any advice (beyond getting insurance and registration done, which we did afterwards) that would fit this situaton?>What is the name of your state?