OK, so I've fallen foul of giving a person of more limited means the benefit of the doubt and trying to spread a bit of goodwill.
Long story short, someone from down the road clipped my car, and did a tiny amount of damage to the front (new numberplate required plus a damned good buff to get some light scratches out of some plastic trim). They admitted to me that they were at fault, and an estimate to put right from a local garage was £75. They didn't want to go through insurance (neither would I for that amount), and said they'd have the money in my hand by the end of the week after.
Fast forward to the week after - they've moved out and I'm spitting feathers! I think they're housing association tenants, but none of the neighbours have a forwarding address so I can track these little cherubs down. Any idea how I might go about this? Police? Council? Housing Association? Or should I just drop it, have a beer, and get on with my life...
*I am fully aware that next time I should either just accept I'll have to fix the car myself for a small amount of damage, or invoke the might of Adrian Flux to fully bend them over, make next year's car insurance prohibitively expensive ffor them and make it impossible to feed/wash their kids as I roar past in my big shiny V8, laughing at them standing by the bus stop.
Long story short, someone from down the road clipped my car, and did a tiny amount of damage to the front (new numberplate required plus a damned good buff to get some light scratches out of some plastic trim). They admitted to me that they were at fault, and an estimate to put right from a local garage was £75. They didn't want to go through insurance (neither would I for that amount), and said they'd have the money in my hand by the end of the week after.
Fast forward to the week after - they've moved out and I'm spitting feathers! I think they're housing association tenants, but none of the neighbours have a forwarding address so I can track these little cherubs down. Any idea how I might go about this? Police? Council? Housing Association? Or should I just drop it, have a beer, and get on with my life...
*I am fully aware that next time I should either just accept I'll have to fix the car myself for a small amount of damage, or invoke the might of Adrian Flux to fully bend them over, make next year's car insurance prohibitively expensive ffor them and make it impossible to feed/wash their kids as I roar past in my big shiny V8, laughing at them standing by the bus stop.
