What should I do if someone claims I door dinged their car in the parking lot? They also claim they have access to the CCTV footage, and would like to meet to review it, he works at the grocery store adjacent to where I work.
“What should I do if someone claims I dinged their car in the parking lot?”It happened to me, once. In this case, I DIDN’T ding her car, though she says she saw me do it.What she saw, was my door touching her truck. Hers was a brand-new, dark colored pickup. Mine was an old yellow pickup with flaking paint. What she saw on her car was a little yellow paint from my door. It rubbed right off and left no scratches (because I was careful when I opened my door, regardless of what she thought she saw).The bad part is that after it was rubbed out, she verbally attacked me at work, anyway. (She was a co-worker). She even waited around until I came back at the end of my shift (we were both delivery drivers), just so she could yell at me.I told her I was sorry. That was not good enough. She said it was a brand new truck, and she’s be damned if she would let someone driving a piece of junk to put scratches on it.I was exhausted from working, and was sick of listening to her yowling.First I told her that she parked in an industrial area (a warehouse), and should EXPECT scratches. If she was that worried, instead of parking near the warehouse door, she should park at the end of the warehouse where nobody else parked.More yowling.I said, do you have insurance? Then sue me! Get the hell out of my way, I’m going home!Later, when my boss said he thought I was being unreasonable, I told him about my other car, a new Flash Red Dodge Daytona Turbo-Z. It was a beautiful car. The day I drove it off the lot, the salesman gave me a bottle of touch-up paint. He said beautiful cars always attract more scratches than plain ones do. He was right, and that’s why scratches never bothered me. If I wanted a pristine car, I’d leave it in the garage.My boss didn’t understand. Oh, well. On the other hand, from that day on, the co-worker parked her truck at the end of the lot. Imagine that.
Door ding claim liability?
I am working out of town for school in a clinic for an internship. Today, a young woman who works next door came in asking who drove my car, claiming I hit her door with mine and left a dent. I never made contact with her car. She claimed she saw me "rummaging" in my car for my things and when she took her car to get gas a little later, she noticed a dent that had not been there before. Mind you, she just saw me with my door open next to her car. She was quite hostile, so I exchanged information with her to get her out of there because she was causing a scene in front of patients. I called my insurance company immediately to tell them. They told me that I never should have given her information and that I needed to file a police report. I called the police and gave them my side first, and then they proceeded to talk to her. They came back and said they could not file an accident report because the vehicles were stationary in the parking lot and there was no real way to prove it without paint transfer. They gave me a card with the report number from where thy came out. How can someone claim this against me when she has no proof that it was me besides her seeing me parked next to her in a public lot? I honestly did not touch her car and was far enough away. I have door dings on my car and would never know if one was new, especially on my passenger side (her car was an older SUV too).
Why would you get in trouble for opening your car door and hitting the car next to you?
How would you feel if someone did that to your car, particularly if it leaves a mark? About a year ago, I went to a store on a very windy day. There was a normal amount of space between me and the next car, but when I opened the door, the wind took my door out of my hands and slammed it into the car beside me. It was an accident you say? So who pays for the damage? In the end, I paid. I thought it would be no fault, because it was an 'act of God', but insurance said it was my fault because it was my car door that did the damage. I understand what you are saying about people not having enough space in some of these tight spaces, but then, when you open your door, the courteous thing to do would be to put your hand on the edge of the door so if anything touches the other person's car, it's your knuckles, not you car door, which could scrape the other car. I don't think you can lose your license over it, unless this is just one of many incidents.
Car damage in condo parking lot. Who is liable?
Usually in the "community association" guidelines, this is addressed. Most address the situation the same way parking garages do: Saying in print (or on signs) that they are not responsible for any damge or theft of/to the cars. Maybe they didn't address this and there are no signs-he saw a loop hole and took advantage of it. That would be my assumption. If he wants to take them to court, I say let him, the judge will probably throw it out. People have to quit blaming the world when bad things befall them, IMHO.
Can I call the cops for someone hitting my car with their door?
if she damaged your car she is liable
Car DING no police report SHOULD I PAY ?
Hi, about 6 months ago, my friend was driving my car. He parked and when he opened the door, he hit another car. Small ding according to him, windy day at the time. Anyway, the lady of the toher car got his name, license plates BUT no isurance, no police report was done either and he gave a fake phone number.Well, this morning I got a call from the ladys insurance co./attorney office. They demand $600 from me (sounds like a deducatible of some sort) They asked me if I woned the car? I said yes. They asked me if I was involved in this? I said no. Never seen this lady or her car. Or I dont know anyone by the name of "Peter Pan" whose this lady wrote down at the time They asked me: Did I let "Peter Pan" drive my car I said nope. Dont know anyone with this name I asked back: Is there a POLICE REPORT for this matter because my own insurance hasn't asked me anything about this. The person on the other side replied: No, but we have to ask our customer first, blah blah (Then I hanged up)help!