Walk It Through: The Fender Bender
A rear-end crash in a parking lot exit, information to swap, and when the police must hear about it.
Pulling out of a grocery store lot, a driver taps the bumper of the car ahead. Nobody seems hurt.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A low speed crash between two cars. An injury crash, a parked car with no one in it, and the insurance claim itself are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.