Posting purely for traffic and urgent advice.
Honestly don’t know what to do here. Today I parked outside a local shop. Parking is always tight, not many spaces available. I did a perfect parallel parking manoeuvre and was getting out the car when a lady got out from in front of me and started accusing me of hitting her car. I absolutely did not!! I have a dash cam and parking sensors and can say with certainty I didn’t touch her car. She asked if we could swap details which we did even though I told her I did nothing wrong (so silly..I know!) I felt bad because she said her husband is an angry man and will blame her if he sees any scratches on the car. There weren’t any but I felt for her so gave her my details anyway. We took pictures of each others driving licenses.
I examined her car very closely (pics attached) the grey reflection is just my jumper. A few hours later she sends me a bill for £500 to repair the alleged damage that she accused me of causing.
I drove straight to the garage she went to and spoke to the manager. He said the car did not look like the pictures I took at 11:30am. She took her car in at 3pm. She was still in her parking space waiting for her husband an hour after I’d originally parked and decided to take my own photos for proof.
The very kind manager of the store reviewed the footage that confirmed no accident occurred. I also spoke to the contractors working across the street, one of them who happened to witness the whole altercation including my parking which he says was perfect and I did not touch her car. What do I do here?! Please my pictures compared to hers. You can see she took her picture on a completely different road.
My car is the silver Toyota and her is the black Mercedes. You can see from the pics I took at the time that there is NO DAMAGE.
Am I missing something here or is this a common scam?