Chief Longwind Of The North
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Aw CCL, it sounds like your sweet Subaru is a magnet for accidents!
Hope this gets resolved quickly. Like maybe the judge will throw that lawyer into jail right after he/she takes the guy's phone away.Fortunately, you had a nice trooper. My only accident ended up with a nice one, too. It wasn't so bad, even though I was the "hitter" and not the "hittee". I had a stick shift at the time, took my foot off the break, and then started to roll forward. Lucky me, the guy in front had just been rear-ended recently, did have his car inspected by the insurance company, and was waiting for the check so he could get his car repaired. He said all the damage was the old damage, and that I probably hadn't added anything to it. Then there was his wife.
Poor guy, he was actually married to her? She was something else.
I know what you mean about the other spouse, be it man or woman. I was driving a pickup truck with my DW and at that time, 2 kids in the cab. Everyone was wearing seat belts. We were on a two lane highway heading out of Spokane, Wa. toward out little area called Moab Junction. A station wagon pulled out right in front of me and I had no time to avoid it. I hit the rear, left quarter panel and nearly skidded into a very large ditch. The station wagon was spun around 180 degrees and sat on the opposite side of the road from which it started (to my right). The man, a driver in his late 50's/early 60's got out of his car, asked if we were alright, and apologized profusely. He started giving me the name of his insurance company. His wife, on the other hand, got out and started raving that we were in so much trouble because we had struck their car. She stated that her son was a state trooper and the law said that if you hit someone, you're at fault. I tried to explain to her the rules of right-of-way, and the skid marks were clearly visible from when I hit the brakes and tried to swerve to avoid hitting them. The husband also tried to tell her it was his fault, but all to no avail. She just kept going on in a heated manner. When the state trooper arrived, what happened was obvious because of the skid marks, and the driver's testimony. The woman was still going on. He finally just wrote the ticket and handed it to the other driver and said if it went to court, he would testify. We got in the truck, which had a crunched bumper, and left. There insurance paid for the repairs and that was all there was to that.
It's happened to me three times that the vehicle I was driving was crunched, or nearly destroyed by the actions of someone else who wasn't paying attention, or made a mistake, and tried to blame the accident on me. Two times it was by uninsured motorists, once by the woman described above, even though her husband was honest and honorable. Each time the evidence pointed to my obvious innocence and there were witnesses. That's three out of four vehicular accidents in my life of driving, and in three, people were lying about what happened. The other one was my fault, and not my fault. I didn't get ticketed for it, but I hit the other car due to being temporarily blinded on an unfamiliar road, by the sun. I was 16 years old, and totaled two cars. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt in either car. The first thing I said when I awoke from unconsciousness was "It was my fault: to the police officer on the scene. My passenger was busy saying, "Be quiet. Don't say anything." But I knew it was my fault. I didn't get a ticket as the circumstances that created the accident were such that I wasn't held accountable.
It is sad to me that people won't take responsibility for their actions. And I can't say that it's a generational thing. In the cases listed above, every driver was a middle aged, or older adult, not a punk kid with a bad attitude.
I am sorry that you had to put up with a pin-head that thought he could intimidate and bully his way through. I hope it all goes well, and quickly for you. I understand how you feel. I've been there, more than once.
Seeeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
