Accidents, Insurance Fraud, and Face-Smashing.

Off-topic
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Well, today, me and Robby (my stepdad) went out for dinner…we start driving home, Robby says “Let’s go by the old house”…so I turn onto Rowlett road (which has horrible traffic). We’re driving along, going about 20, and the people in front of me start to slam on their brakes, I do the same, glancing in my rearview mirror, and there was the split second realization of “Oh shit, they aren’t stopping”…SMASH. We pull off into a field beside the road, and call the cops.

The driver’s name is Casey, and the passenger’s was Matt. After I call the cops, and we exchange info and everything, we call our respective families. Casey’s family gets there, and they look like the definition of wite trash. Introductions are made, and a minute or two later (police still aren’t here yet), the mom and sister practically start begging Robby to tell the police that the mom was driving, not Casey…apparently, Casey has “liscense troubles”, and could lose his job. Robby avoids the question, not wanting to directly tell them no. The cops get there, normal pleasantries are exchanged, information given, the cop goes back and files it in his car-laptop (cartop?). Comes back, and handcuffs Matt. Apparently, he has a warrant under his name. Little more information is exchanged, and we (Robby and I) are free to go. We start to drive away, and look over, and see the cops (there are three now) start to go towards Casey, handcuffs out. He was driving without a liseense, and had some warrants under his name as well. Not being what most people would call intelligent, he starts to resist, and gets his face smashed into the police car a few times while trying to escape from the 3 six foot tall cops. He is subdued, and we drive away.

That’s my exciting story of the day. Luckily, no one was hurt, and damage to our car was minimal…we may need a new back bumper, but that was it. Something cracked inside their car, and sprayed fluid everywhere (power steering, I think), and something else was misplaced, making the car undrivable…the mom worked for a towing company though, so she got her car towed for free.

Even luckier (for me), the accident was not my fault, both legally, and logically…legally, because here in Texas, it’s automatically your fault if you rear end someone, and logically, because he had 2 or 3 seconds in which to react, and avoid me.

Anyone else have any accident stories to tell?

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Well i dont drive…but i have been hit my a car on my uni…No police were involved but me and the driver had some very unkind words for eachother.

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Wow. Sounds like an exciting night. Im surprised if they had warrents out for their arrest that they didnt flea before the cops got there.

Glad youre all safe and sound tho.

I fortunately have no accident stories of my own.

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i dont drive yet:(

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oh and by the way you spelt white wrong(just thought i had to bring it up because you made coments about “not having proper grammer” in my threads:p

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You spelled grammar and comments wrong, didn’t use capitalization, spelt does not mean spelled, you missed the space between wrong and your opening parenthesis, and between “threads” and “:p”, and you didn’t use a period at the end of your sentence. My error percentage is a bit less than your’s is.

The “Edit” feature is there for a reason, it’s to fix mistakes and to add stuff.

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I’m not even going to tell you what mistakes you’ve made, vuniw^

I had a dream that I was in a car with a friend (Brent) and we were sliding left very fast, across multiple lanes of traffic, then the median, and then across more lanes of traffic and into a wall (I woke up before we hit the wall - I remember being scared shitless in the dream)

Two days ago, my friends Joe, Brent, and Justin were driving around in Joe’s mom’s car (a bmw). Joe had just gotten his liscense two days prior, and was feeling very confident about the car’s ability to handle turns. He was in his neighborhood going 45mph around a corner, when one of his tires hit someones driveway and the car flipped “at least two times”, and landed upside-down. Had Justin been in the rear left seat, he would have been killed - the roof was so smashed in there. Everyone is fine, luckily they were all wearing their seatbelts, but they did have to crawl out the rear winsheild (which was completely gone).

I once bumped into someone when I thought they were going to keep going forward (it was stop-n-go traffic right before a bridge). We all got out of our cars and looked for damage, but there wasn’t any. I apologized, and we went back on our ways.

Another time, however, I wasn’t so lucky. I was being stupid and swerving back and forth on a rocky road, seeing how far I could slide. It was fun while it lasted, but then I ended up in a deep ditch - right side mirror gone, rear view mirror gone, dents in left rear panels, side panels, trunk dented shut on right corner. I had narrowly avoided hitting a telephone pole. The car had to be winched out of the ditch, and towed to the yard. The car still ran, and everything inside worked fine, but the insurance company said that it was ‘totaled’ (which means that cost of repairs > car’s value). So I got a new car about two days later - a black '99 Ford Escort LX ($4k from my aunt) to replace my boat-of-a-car '98 Mercury Grand Marquis. I miss my old car; it was big, fast (V8, compared to this V4), and luxurious, albeit a gas swine. This little car doesn’t suit me as well. I’m a tall guy, I need a big car. But i’m also young, and without much money, so the fuel-efficient vehicle wins…for now.

EDIT: I guess monkeyman decided to tell you of the mistakes you made while I was typing the rest of this.

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Logically, someone with license troubles and a warrant should be driving with extra care and diligence.

A couple weeks ago I was parked at a trailhead for a muni ride. It’s a popular trailhead that gets lots of use. It also happens to be right on a highway which makes for a convenient smash & grab target for car prowls.

Someone tried to break into my car. They broke the side window of the car to the right of mine and the car to the left of mine. They were in the process of trying to get into my car when they were apparently scared off. Just minor damage to my car, but still annoying.

Not as exciting as being rear ended and no insurance fraud was involved so a pretty boring story.

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Somebody told me about a friend of his who was a keen cyclist and spent his holidays riding the tour de france course. He got back to Australia and one Saturday morning was going for a ride when some guys drove up next to him and shoved him. He was going 70ks at the time and fell into a concrete wall,
his bike was mangled and he fractured and broke heaps of bones. They couldn’t catch the culprits, though the cops suspected they had just come out of a nearby nightclub and were drinkdriving.

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about 8 years ago my dad, my sister, a friend of us and I had a huge car crash.
My dad was driving when the lights of a railroad crossing switched on. My father stoped and the “fences” went down. Suddenly we heard the noise of tires sliding on the asphalt and felt some kind of shock :thinking:
A car had hit us on the rear, the shock was violent… but maybe it was better for us:
because of the shock, our car began to slide across the railroad crossing (the fence was not meant to stop a car), just before the train came through it :astonished: .
The train driver (after having stoped the train and ran for about 1 Km) told us that there were only 20cm between our car and his train when we slided through the railroad crossing.
Our car slided 20 more meters (the cops said the man who hit us was driving about 130/150 Km/h (80/90mph) right before the crash).

Our car was completely smashed but we didn’t have any injuries (though we where shocked and brought to hospital for a check up).

I’ve always been thinking that no stuntmen would try such a stunt…
If the man had hit us 1/10 second later or driven a bit slower, it was all over.
I guess it was not the day for us to die.

The man said to my father “I didn’t see you”. He wasn’t drunk but his medical treatment might have been the cause of his lack of attention.:frowning:

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i was driving home from Indianna the other day when 2 drifters doing about 170km/h blew by my, zig zagged through traffic a bit, long enough for me to say to myself, ‘man, look at those idio…’ screeeeeeeeeeeeech the second when out of control, Toyko drifting back and forth through the lanes in all directions until his car hit the median, plastic garbage flying all over the highway off of his still-just-a-honda-civic, while 4 lanes of traffic mangaed to somehow avoid him.

unfortunatly as i passed the wreckage, i could see the driver of the car moving his arms, suggesting that he wasn’t paralyzed from the neck down

odd that the first car kept driving and didn’t stay to make sure his buddy was ok

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I read recently that in the UK there is an insurance fraud happening regularly: I think someone cited several hundred cases in Birmingham alone.

Here’s what happens. you are driving along and the car in front suddenly and without warning jams their brakes on. You hit their rear end and they all, usually a full car of people, claim whiplash injuries. In order to guarantee the “without warning” they have disconnected their brake lights.

Mikefule might know more.

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Logically, if the person drove with care and diligence, the person wouldn’t have license troubles in the first place!

:slight_smile:

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9 more days 'till I can drive!!! knocks on wood but until I get my G1 I don’t have any storys, sorry

Edit: I just remembered that my sister smashed into a wall a few days ago, she was going about 5-10 km/h and we were coming to a wall and just as I was saying “what are you doing” SMASH, nothing was damaged though. but still

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I’ve only had two (minor) accidents in 21 years of driving. One involved mutual skidding on some ice at not very fast speed. the second involved a medium sized van pulling away from the curb and driving straight into the side of my car as I drove along the road. Clearly in no way my fault. A huge nuisance as we were on our way to go camping. My daughter and I (who were in the car) were a bit shaken. Jessica (never one to keep her mouth shut), who was about 13 at the time, got out and gave them a right mouthfull. they later claimed that they were intimidated by a rabid passanger in an effort not to be blamed for the accident. It didn’t work.

Cathy

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Hahahaha. I’m sure your daughter loved the “rabid” remark

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I must be a terrible driver. I’ve been in 5 auto-auto accidents over the ~10 years that I’ve had a license. (I’ve also been in a bike-auto accident on my bicycle.)

  1. My fault. I was following too closely in my parents’ ginormous station wagon, and the SUV in front of me slammed on their brakes.

  2. My fault. I clipped a car in front of me in bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic when changing lanes, also in my parents’ station wagon and within my first year of driving.

  3. Not my fault. I followed a truck into a parking lot at a grocery store, and the bright driver decided to back his truck into a parking space. Not only did he not see me waiting behind him in my tiny Ford Escort, he didn’t give me enough time to back up. He just threw his truck in reverse and backed into my car. He tried to play the “I’m older and more experienced than you” card until a lady in a business suit walked up and said she saw the whole thing and handed me her business card.

  4. Maybe my fault. I was following some slow moving traffic in a congested downtown area. A guy on a bicycle was weaving in and out of traffic (bad idea) to avoid yard clippings on the side of the road. The guy in front of me slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting the bicycle and I skidded to a stop, barely colliding bumper-to-bumper. We pulled over and looked at our vehicles–no damage. He said not to worry about it. And then a witness across the street walked over and asked if we had seen those “Are you gelling?” insoles for your shoes commercial because our cool headedness in dealing with the situation reminded him of those commercials. It was quite funny at the time.

  5. Maybe my fault. I was backing out of a space in a tight parking lot, and so was the lady on the other side of the row. We were both in each other’s blindspot, but fortunately we were both moving quite slowly. The irony was that my wife had already backed our car into a white vehicle, so there was already white paint and a dent on our bumper. Also, the lady’s white car already had a dent in the same spot on the rear panel that my bumper hit. So we initially both thought we had damaged each other’s car. We had a good laugh.

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My sister’s car (a Ford Escort) has been rear-ended soo many times. A few times in parking lots when she hasn’t been there, and once when our mom was backing up to leave and just ran into it.

When she replaces her bumper this time, it’ll be the second replacement bumper :roll_eyes:

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insurance

ive totaled six cars and im only 20. I got my licence taken away. damn…