LAST week my wife’s car was clipped while it was parked on the road where we live.

The wing mirror was broken.

A note apologising had been left on the car with the contact details for ‘Darren’. A trip to the garage established that the bill would be £35 and I was given the job of ringing Darren with the news.

I was a little nervous and didn’t know how this stranger would react.

I needn’t have worried.

Ten minutes after ringing him Darren, a man I had never met before, was stood at my front door with £35 in his hand.

My faith in my fellow man had been restored.

The following morning I was thinking of writing to your paper to demonstrate that not everyone adopts the selfish behaviours that frequently dominate our news reports.

I didn’t get round to it but on leaving my house for a family trip was driving past the very spot that Darren had come into contact with my wife’s car, a car coming the opposite direction clipped the wing mirror of a van parked on the road and sped off without a backwards glance.

We stopped and informed our neighbour of what had happened.

Two minor traffic incidents within 48 hours, on the same road, resulting in irritation and costs for the unfortunate victim but with two very different outcomes.

So thank you once again for doing the right thing. It may be very unfashionable these days but if we could all act more like Darren we would all win in the long run.

MICHAEL CORFIELD Lymm