mine came to bite me in the arse 4 years later

old duffer rear ended me and then not only did he "forget" to tell his insurance company that he wanted to fight the case, they'd gone bust or something and so he got someone else involved

went to county court and the judge had already made up his mind that i was guilty even though all the evidence (that the old codger had provided) totally blew his case out of the water, he claimed he had seen me through 50 feet of stone and concrete and even the damage to his car was significantly greater than the damage to mine (mine was repaired for £1.06p, his damage came to about £1400)

needless to say the bill came to about £4k and even though i had to pay it, i simply passed it onto my insurance company who then forked out as they said it would cost them more to send another legal bod out to fight the case