Okay, I am panicking. I recently bought a car and was in the process of selling my old one. The car buyer was from Facebook. The buyer did not have the money up front, which was alright with me because I was in the process of ordering a duplicate title to sell the car. I got all of the car buyer's information and allowed him to use the car until he came up with the money and I had the title in hand for us to do the legal switching over. I know that was a stupid thing to trust somebody I didn't know, but he was a single, recently divorced dad with two girls that needed a break, and I had the means to give him one until we could everything finalized.
Also, while he was using the car, the insurance on it expired, and I didn't renew it, as I had intended to sell the car almost immediately after that.
I made arrangements to pick up the check for the car, but he asks for one more week for the money, and I gave it to him.
The day before I'm supposed to pick up the money and sell him the car, he gets into an accident with it and totaled the car. He called me immediately and was apologetic and that he’ll still pay for the car and the removal of the car. He claimed the damage done to the other car was minor.
A few anxious days pass and my insurance calls to notify me that the person who got hit repaired the car on their own, but that they’ve hired an attorney for bodily injury. And since the car was uninsured, he will personally come after us to pay for his medical bills.
The car buyer/driver has verbally claimed full responsibility and that “he’ll take care of everything,” but won’t send that to me in writing. The car was still registered under my name at the time of the accident.
I feel so f*cked here. I was just trying to help someone out and it’s completely screwed me over. I’m nervous, anxious, stressed, and mostly scared. Is there anything I can do in this situation?
edit: this is in PA edit 2: the car buyer has now disappeared and I can’t get into contact with him. edit 3: turns out he’s not MIA, my bad.
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