I need some legal advice! PLEASE READ
My husband was in a car accident with a 70 year old woman who was driving her son's vehicle on a expired license (which she apparently had a 60 day extension, but we don't know..? And then later we find out her insurance policy was not even 24 hours old!. ). When the police officer did the accident report, she ended up being at fault because we had a 3rd party witness who called in the accident to 911. The dispatcher did get the witnesses information (name, address and phone#). However, the woman is claiming she is not at fault. She even called OUR insurance company and started a claim. She DID receive a citation for the accident because of the witness. The officer told us that he would not have been able to site her unless we had that witness... but we did, so we lucked out... for the time being.
He also told us that she may take us to court... but if the witness doesn't show up, they will just drop the case.
Any advise of what we should say/do or how to handle this case? This incident happened on Friday, and it is now Monday and my husband still doesn't have a rental vehicle and her insurance company is claiming they can't get in contact with the member, therefor they can't process the claim yet or even get started... we even faxed them the accident report showing she was at fault and got a citation!
HELP!
Thanks! :-)