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[quote=Anonymous]Our nanny had an accident in our car, which was undamaged and more importantly the pedestrian involved is ok, but the nanny was charged with two offences. She was clearly at fault and was devastated, particularly as the kids were with her in the car at the time - lucklly they were not hurt at all and seem ok emotionally. If she goes to court she can probably have the charges dropped to lesser offences and get her fines reduced.

She is a part-time live-in nanny and is not making a huge amount of money (she is also a part-time student). She already did a very small bit of damage to our car before when the weather was bad and offered to help pay to fix it but we said not to worry and that we will pay for it. The amount this will cost her just in fines will exceed one week's salary, and then her insurance will go up too.

She has not been with us long and is otherwise absolutely fantastic and we are concerned that she will leave over this. If she doesn't want to drive our car anymore that is fine, and obviously it might be better if she doesn't! We can manage without a nanny who drives - this is a sacrifice we are willing to make in order to retain someone who is really awesome with our kids.

So, opinions please - should we help to pay her fines/any court costs?

Thanks in advance![/quote]

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