California | Traffic Law
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Yesterday I was rear-ended by a 16-year old unlicensed driver.Instead of calling the police, I took down all her information & decided to call her parents to try and work out a payment plan to fix my mangled bumper.There was quite a language barrier since her parents did not know much English but I told her relative I would give them an estimate within a couple days. Everything seemed fine until this morning when I received a phone call from the girl's 18-year old boyfriend who began to tell me that the accident was MY fault (I guess he ignored the fact that she was the one driving illegally). He was not there at the time of the accident and I feel this was very inappropriate. After giving him a "talking-to", I decided to notify her parents.
I did not want the police nor my insurance company to be involved because I wanted to give her a chance but after she tried to sick her boyfriend on me, I'm regretting trying to be the good guy and would like to know if i can still go about this the legal way since I did not immediately report this to either the police nor my insurance company.
A. Fortuna
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