Hi, I live in California and I was with my friend earlier tonight and she was driving. We noticed a man standing on the grass near the sidewalk with his dog(which was unleashed), who was urinating. As we passed (going the speed limit, if not slower) we heard a thump on the drivers back tire. We stopped, and the man was yelling at us that we hit his dog (which broke one of its legs). He wanted us to take it to the vet, I told him as the owner its his responsibility to keep his dog leashed and more importantly, his responsibility to take the dog to the vet himself. I told him we shouldn't be liable for him not keeping his dog leashed and it was a pure accident. He wanted us to pay for the medical bills. He threatened to call the police, I told him to go ahead, in which he immediately backed off and said its fine you can leave. Taken aback. we felt something wasn't right, so we ended up calling the police ourselves just to have an official report. The owner of the house then went inside. We waited a considerable amount of time and the police never showed (LA PD), we ended up leaving. We did give the man (before he went inside) our name and number.
Are we liable? The dog was unleashed, the car was at the speed limit, and it hit the back drivers tire, its impossible she could have seen it coming.
Thanks! any help would be great! She's really worried about liabilty

Or emotional distress! Now you're going to have nightmares about peeing dogs.