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Originally Posted by Impureclient
I'd try this. It's a little bit of lying but might work: First get a quick estimate for damages or just guess since time is important here. Find the owner and be very short tempered with this conversation and get
out of there quick like you have to be somewhere. Say your dash cams(rear in your case like a ) caught him hitting you after you had reviewed over the data and realized their car has the culprit. Say you already
made a police report. This is where it gets tricky.
You say you'll be willing to let him pay out of pocket for $XXX and not involve insurance companies if he agrees. Right then and there you'll probably know if it was him/her if they either totally deny it and act
like your crazy or if they act a little like a deer in the headlights for a second or two. If it turns out it wasn't them then you just apologize, tell them you had to give it a try and and walk away. Lying isn't illegal.
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And then they either punch your lights out (or shoot you since they felt threatened) or counter with they have video of you backing into them. Lying rarely works out well.
Although approaching the owner in a calm manner and simply asking "is it possible you hit my car and didn't realize it?" may actually be all the nudge they need to come clean with you.