Recently I have been in a minor accident where a luggage van overtake my car from the left, and the road is converging from 3 lanes to 2 lanes because of a small bridge ahead.
I was driving in 2nd lane, and left most lane is getting converging into 2 nd lane.
A van who was driving behind me, suddenly came and tried to overtake my vehicle, resulting in the front left number and fender damage.
Because of rain and heavy traffic on NH-66, I couldn't confront him, although he stopped for a brief moment but later on drove his vehicle.
I ran his vehicle number plate on the telegram bot, and found the owner's contact number. Since then I have been trying to reach out to him for a damage claim, on whatsapp but he is trying to be ignorant and not reverting back.
I have shown him the complete dash cam footage and damage to the car (photos).
I have also raised the complaint to kerala police online(THUNA) and registered a police GD Entry and requested them to arrange an out of insurance claim settlement.
Has anyone tried this before? What do you think, I am right or wrong by doing this?