Legal Question in Personal Injury in New Jersey

To be blunt, you will have a hard time collecting, and $950 is real money, but litigating for $950 --- it isn't worth it. You will have to convince a judge, that you could not have avoided it, and I've been driving 36 years now... unless you could not see it til the last moment, no way you should ahve hit it. Say you can explain that - now you have to prove your damages, and an estimate is not likley to do it - how do we know the estimate is proper? Maybe another guy could have done "it" (whatever "it" is) for less, maybe for something really nominal. People make up "evidence" all the time, or have friends make up something for them. You will probably have to bring in at least 1 person to testify about what damages were done, what had to be done to repair it, and give convincing testimony that there was not old damage being repaired. Who is to asy you didn't run over things all the time? If you can hit a muffler, you can hit lots-o-other things! Get the point?