Why should I fill out a accident report? Long post.

[nh500sl]

I have a summer job working for a auction company in my town. We pickup, deliver, store and aution cars. Today, we went to pick up a car that was being surenderd on a bankruptcy. As usual their was someone driving the car, that was being picked up, (my self) and the van driver, the individual who drives the drivers around to pick up the cars/ pick up the drivers after delievering the cars.

I picked up this mazda 626 today and got about about a block away form the , and found that the transmission had issues. I pulled over, and the van driver who was behind be did to. I told him I was not sure about the transmission and that it should be towed. He said naw, just see how far you can get it.

Well, I got another couple of blocks to the freeway and the car got worse I pulled the car off the road as much as possible and put the e flashers on. I told the Van driver that their was no way the car would make it back and that the car would have to be towed. He called in to the office and had a tow truck come pick it up. Meanwhile we went back out to pick up more cars. We got back to the shop at about 4:15. I was approached by the manager saying that I needed to fill out a accident report, becase the car that I has left on the side of the road, had been hit and I was the last person driving it.

Well I did everything that I could. They said that the accident reprot was important for a paper trail. Well I really don't wan't this on my record, and don't see why I should fill it out since I was not driving the car, at the scene of the accident, or causing the accident in anyway.

If I turn in a accident report for this will this hurt me, if I go shop for insurance? I have a clean record, and quite frankly, I would be damned to have something like this scare it. What should I do? Thanks