The missus was straightening up in the car park and as she slowly inched back a bit , she bumped into a car that was being driven very close to the line of parked cars. Looking at the damage caused to the other persons door and that done to our car...closing speed maybe 5 mph?, it looks very much like point damage that one would get if, say, someone had driven into her car door with a bumper corner or similar. Our car has no visible damage other than a slight scuffing of red paint.

So we think that the woman is trying it on and that the damage was pre-existing. Her car has a lot of other dings and dents all over it and she initially tried to tell my wife that she had broken the car wing mirror - which was a physical impossibility given the relative heights.

I went round to the womans' house and took some photographs and measurements ...you can see her damage here

www.tristan.demon.co.uk/images/P1080287opt.jpg

and the back of our car here

www.tristan.demon.co.uk/images/P1080293opt.jpg

Don't get me wrong, if we did cause all that damage then we'll step up to the plate.

But where do we go from here?