TL;DR: Got rear-ended, the other party refused to even acknowledge he did anything wrong.
I had the most surreal thing happen to me lately.
Busy big city intersection, I am waiting the first one in line on a red light to turn right. The road is at a slight decline. Green light for people GOING FORWARD lights up, and suddenly the car previously waiting behind me bumps into the rear of my car. the RIGHT TURN light is still red.
Oh well, I get out of my car, and trying my best to hide my annoyance at the situation, ask the other driver what happened. In return, I hear:
Him: "What do you mean mate, you drove into me".
My mind suddenly does a back flip, thinking about the whole situation. I was stationary, in neutral gear. The light was red. The road was at an incline and the other party was uphill from me.
Me: "What? How do you mean mate? As in I reverses into you?"
Him: "Dunno mate, but you did this."
Me: "Uphill?!"
Him: "Mate, not my fault. There's hardly any damage anyway"
I look at contact point between our cars, still touching each other. His car is indeed not really jammed into my rear bumper, yet still there is definitely a firm contact between the two, and there are definitely scratch marks there.
Me: "Ok mate, whatever, our insurance companies will sort this out. What are your details"
Him: "It wasnt me, I can exchange details but it wasnt me, you did this"
The person I was driving with starts to suggest that maybe we should get the Police involved, if this carries on. The guy suddenly gets all offended by the notion that I am considering calling a Police, and goes like:
Him: "Stop claiming that I am avoiding sharing my details. I am willing to share them, but I did not do this"
Me: "Whatever mate, I`ll need your licence card and insurance policy no."
After exchange, we drove our separate ways.
Few hours later, long after I have lodged a claim with my insurer, I suddenly start to think "How could I unknowingly put the reverse gear in and release the clutch without remembering it?! Or maybe I have started reversing into him uphill, regardless of common logic of waiting for a green light to turn?! WTF is my mind doing to me…".
Now, obviously it was some sort of a mind game tactic to play down the whole event, so that I would consider this to be not worth acting on, but it has gotten more and more interesting to me, what must be going through such peoples' minds in these situations? Lack of common decency was obvious, but acting in a way, where I could almost be convinced he believed it himself… Quite commendable, considering the circumstances.
TLDR - OP got rear ended whilst stopped and other party refused accept responsibility