My au pair drives our car. She is sensible, kind the kids love her and whilst she is not perfect she is ok and we are fairly happy with her.
yesterday she came home with kids after school pickup and said when returning to car with kids she saw someone had knocked the wing mirror.
It was easily fixed in the garage so not a big deal, but we have a car port and my husband noticed a mark on the gate of it at the point where the wing mirror might have hit it. He happened to be working from home and heard a bang just before the kids and au pair came in to the house and when I casually asked my daughter if she knew what happened to the car, she told us exactly what we suspected - that the au pair had hit the mirror as she reversed into the carport.
I have no issue with minor accidents like this - thankfully she is actually careful and safe with the kids and no one was hurt.
However she has lied to avoid being blamed and I feel I need to call her out on this but should I just let it go? I can appreciate the easy option is to say it was someone else that did it so I can see why she did but I don't want her to think it is ok to be untruthful.
Any advice?