To think this woman should be thoroughly ashamed of herself?

[Tarjet]

My son was driving to work at the weekend and was waiting for a car parking space. A woman in a huge Range Rover reversed out of the space at speed and hit my son’s car. He was far enough back to see what was going to happen and blast his horn. She still kept on coming.

The damage was fortunately quite minimal but my son’s little fiesta needs a panel realigned. At the time the woman was hugely apologetic, admitted fault (and when my son rang me I could hear her in the background still apologising).

They exchanged details and she asked if she could pay for the repair without going through insurance - which was perfect as I know even a ‘no fault claim’ bumps your premium up.

Fast forward to today - son messaged her with the repair update (it’s being assessed tomorrow) and she’s now changed her tune and blaming my son for the accident and is now going through the insurance as her car has a dent. Or she said he could pay to have it fixed! The fucking audacity is making my blood boil.

Anything I can do before I explode in anger?

We think there is CCTV at the retail park so that will be my first step I think.

Definitely cctv vis your insurance company. The retail park won't give it to you. Hopefully this is in good time anthem tend to delete anything after a certain date.

This makes my blood boil, happened to me, my mum and brother in law recently the one into me tried to deny it (she wrote my car and a taxi that I then hit wrote us both off) my mum and BIL were hit and runs. All of our premiums have doubled. Mine gone from £45 to £99 a month for insurance. I’m still raging.

I don't know how she managed to reverse into him in a range rover. There's that many cameras sensors and alarms on them the car should have been going bananas

Always go through insurance or you leave yourself wide open

Let her know that you are going to check the cctv in the car park. I expect she will change her mind pretty quickly.

Almost the exact same thing happened to me when I was very young. From apologising to demanding I pay for repairs. Just let it go through the insurance and try to encourage your son not to take it personally. My father got steaming mad and pushed me to pursue it through the small claims court. Despite having the witness statements of two barristers in my favour (it happened in a court carpark) the judge decided we should each pay each other’s expenses. I claimed truthfully for the damage to my secondhand Citroen, she claimed for her top of the range sports car and the cost of two day car hire 🙄 So of course I ended up massively out of pocket and it was just deeply unfair. Go through the insurance and let your son chalk it up to experience - he now knows not to trust someone in this situation at least. People lie.

Unfortunately I feel the husband has been told and he has likely told his wife to change her story as premiums will be affected otherwise. A similar sorry happened to me where I may have been at fault, and at the time the other women said don't worry about it and the next day hubby put the hard word on and a phone call was made the next today at my business, to my surprise! Just get insurance involved, you shouldn't lose your no claim if you are deemed not at fault.

YABU but only because your son should have gone through the insurance in the first place. As this is exactly the sort of thing that happens if you don’t.

I’d bluff her and say “that’s fine thankfully we obtained the cctv footage so it will be clear to the insurers what happened “