damaged car

[petesgrayz]

Not sure if this is the right place, but here goes.

I came out of work one day to discover someone had bumped into my car in the car park, scratching the paintwork. Next day I noticed a scratch on a colleagues car that was the same colour paint as mine, and both scratches were exactly the same level .

Bit of a coincidence hey?

I asked him about it, and he told me a neighbour had run into him a few days earlier.

Cost of repair is �200, what can I do? Any suggestions?

[silly moo]

Not a lot you can do without proof.
Can you touch up the paintwork yourself or gat a practically minded friend to help? Will be cheaper than a garage.

[rojash]

You could report your suspicions to the police. They could easily check his story about the neighbour.

[rod]

Call the police and ask them if they will try and match your paint to the paint on his car, but is it worth the trouble as he is a work colleague and obviously a Pratt

[Sammy Snake]

Have u got CCTV on your car park, maybe worth checking.  Otherwise, as has been said, without proof I don't think there is anything you can do.

I doubt very much whether the Police would check out anything for such a minor incident (minor to them, obviously not minor to you).

[smudge]

I can guarantee the response from the police will be:

"If nobody was injured - contact your Insurance company".

[Grunty]

The incident was on a car park.  The police will only have jurisdiction if the car park was also a road within the meaning of the Road Traffic Acts, or if the damage was done deliberately.  It will not be a road if it is a private car park belonging to the place of work.  An investigator could help, but would probably cost more than the damage.

[undercovers]

but if his neighbout had run into him, this suggests that this happened near his house - it would seem strange if the same neighbour had driven to this persons place of work and then bumped into your car, wouldn't it? maybe i am missing the point but the chances of it being the same person seem very very small to me - so its the same colour and height !! probably white and cars are generally the same height aren't they.