Turned into my street tonight in my new (to me) car. I'd followed a BMW estate into the narrow, downhill approach to the street. The driver stopped. I waited about 30 seconds to see what they were doing, and suddenly she started to reverse, straight at me. Didn't have time to do anything but pound the horn, but that had no effect and she hit my car, full in its face (poor thing).
Got out and had a look - some scrapes to my paintwork and the Volvo badge has snapped off. No obvious signs of bending or breakage. Her car's rear bumper was dinged right in on the corner - bit of a mess. We were both perfectly pleasant about it, and given the lack of damage I told her to forget about it, but did offer to exchange details - she declined the offer.
Given the horror stories I read here and elsewhere (woman has change of heart and tells the police I rammed her?!), I'm now wondering if I should have played it by the book - what would you have done?
