Had an accident when abroad and didn’t stop, I feel terrible now.

[Quicksilver15]

Basically a motorhome and our camper were passing each other & both our wing mirrors exploded, it was a narrowish road, neither of us were at a passing place, there were 2 bikes in front of them so I can only assume they were further over than they thought. Anyway we initially stopped because of the confusion and picking up pieces, however the German driver started ranting that do we not know about giving way even though it seemed like we were both at fault.

We are on a foreign road trip abroad a long way from home so in that moment I stupidly told my partner after collecting the pieces to just drive off as it’s only a wingmirror and our baby was crying in the back awaiting vehicle movement. Neither of us were in our home countries. Anyway I’m feeling sick with guilt now that this wasn’t the right reaction, but I also know it was triggered by the drivers hostility (I guess flight or fight mode kicked in as my partner was totally silent in the interaction).

Anyway I’m not sure what I’m hoping to achieve now other than I can’t sleep.

A lot of us would have done the same, try not to kick yourself, nobody was hurt ,just yourself right now 😉

What? Why are you worried about it? You sound both at fault so you should share the costs of the accident, which you will do by default as you've suffered the same damage to each vehicle. The exchanging of details would add a layer of complexity that isn't needed.

I hope so but I also now have this fear that the German authorities are going to come after us, we don’t intend to claim on our insurance because it’s a cheapish car size camper, I just had no idea that motorhome wing mirrors were 10x the price and also we have been waiting at a tiny ferry port not far from the incident for almost 24 hrs so seems pretty conceivable they might just look for us. I keep twitching the blinds as it’s light here most the night…

@Tealpins im not sure how we do this now as we didn’t take their registration. We haven’t contacted our insurance yet and were initially not going to, until I realised they will definitely claim for a higher value mirror. Also we are so far from home that car parts take weeks to arrive or have to be flown in so I am nervous to even deal with the complexity of organising this through insurance. We’re 2000 miles from home and no garages have any availability for 2-3 weeks and we need to be home in 3 weeks time. We were going to fit the part ourselves once sourced as that’s all the garages can offer us on this issue (sourcing only).