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tony barnhill
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Sounds like your insurance will be paying for both cars if she backed into him.
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yepper...if it is in a private parking lot and no injuries typically you are on your own and fault is not determined... insurance companies on the other hand will work based on the story....had a kid clearly cutting across stalls broadside me in a parking lot and the police would not even make a report...
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My Grandmother was leaving the hospital in her '89 Escort. She got a little confused and hit the gas instead of the brake while in reverse. She speed across the parking lot and SLAMMED into another car HARD. Knocked out her back glass and crushed the entire back of her car, buckling BOTH rear quartepanels and breaking those windows as well.
Shaken up, she proceeded to put it in drive and went on home dragging the bumper behind the car. "I saw a lady waving at me, I thought she meant everything was o.k and to just go on home."
(BACKGROUND: You have to understand who and how she was. She wa FLAT OUT the nicest, sweetest, kindest person I've ever known. This is the same person I mentioned in other posts who insisted she feed you everytime you walked in her house. Her family has a habit of feeding people they met on the street, She's never met a stranger and would do ANYTHING for ANYONE. I've never seen her mad, and have never heard her say ANYTHING unkind about anybody. Everyone who met her loved her. "Darlin', can I get ya somthin'?" That's just how she was.)
She passed my house on her way home. I saw her drive by....dragging half of the car behind her followed by a police car; lights flashing, no siren. I was thinking "WHAT IN THE H--L IS THIS ?!?!?!?!?! I figured he was just escorting her home after an accident.....he wasn't, he was in a HIGH SPEED PURSUIT of my five foot tall, 95 pound Lebanese grandmother...... traveling up to speeds as high as TEN MILES PER HOUR !!!!!
I went inside and told my mother, "Mamma, Memaw just drove by and her car's all smashed up and the cops are following her." Dad went over to see what was happening. The cop was really cool about everything. This was really a good thing as it would have not gone well AT ALL if he had given her any trouble. If you're in the wrong, Dad is not one to play....law enforcement or not.....ESPECIALLY if my Grandmother was involved. (He once pushed a cop that was parked in front of him SIDEWAYS across a gravel parking with our Willys jeep.....but that's another story.)
Poor thing didn't know what happened at all. She said she knew she hit something, "When I saw the nice lady wave to me, I thought I just bumped it and everything was o.k."
She never drove again.
Shaken up, she proceeded to put it in drive and went on home dragging the bumper behind the car. "I saw a lady waving at me, I thought she meant everything was o.k and to just go on home."
(BACKGROUND: You have to understand who and how she was. She wa FLAT OUT the nicest, sweetest, kindest person I've ever known. This is the same person I mentioned in other posts who insisted she feed you everytime you walked in her house. Her family has a habit of feeding people they met on the street, She's never met a stranger and would do ANYTHING for ANYONE. I've never seen her mad, and have never heard her say ANYTHING unkind about anybody. Everyone who met her loved her. "Darlin', can I get ya somthin'?" That's just how she was.)
She passed my house on her way home. I saw her drive by....dragging half of the car behind her followed by a police car; lights flashing, no siren. I was thinking "WHAT IN THE H--L IS THIS ?!?!?!?!?! I figured he was just escorting her home after an accident.....he wasn't, he was in a HIGH SPEED PURSUIT of my five foot tall, 95 pound Lebanese grandmother...... traveling up to speeds as high as TEN MILES PER HOUR !!!!!
I went inside and told my mother, "Mamma, Memaw just drove by and her car's all smashed up and the cops are following her." Dad went over to see what was happening. The cop was really cool about everything. This was really a good thing as it would have not gone well AT ALL if he had given her any trouble. If you're in the wrong, Dad is not one to play....law enforcement or not.....ESPECIALLY if my Grandmother was involved. (He once pushed a cop that was parked in front of him SIDEWAYS across a gravel parking with our Willys jeep.....but that's another story.)
Poor thing didn't know what happened at all. She said she knew she hit something, "When I saw the nice lady wave to me, I thought I just bumped it and everything was o.k."
She never drove again.
Thanks for the good laugh. My imagination works just fine!
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Upon revisiting the story, it was a telephone pole she hit, not another car. I remember the all too distinctive deep "V" shape shoved into it.
Oh, she was o.k too.
Oh, she was o.k too.
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I was driving home the other night,in the rain,
& just happened to notice something odd.It was a car,up
on top of shrubbry,in front of our local blood bank.
I stopped & called the police.What kind of car is -
it?",asked the dispatcher.I replied - "A Green Studebaker".
Now that's something you don't see every day.
- Doug
& just happened to notice something odd.It was a car,up
on top of shrubbry,in front of our local blood bank.
I stopped & called the police.What kind of car is -
it?",asked the dispatcher.I replied - "A Green Studebaker".
Now that's something you don't see every day.
- Doug
BabaKahawa
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sounds like it's that time of the year..... now is the time to tell how good your insurance
company really is........
company really is........
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Yesterday afternoon, one of my students arrived late to my engineering lab class. He was escorted by a policeman.
The student had spun off the road while driving onto the campus, apparently doing major damage to his car. Due to the snow and slippery conditons, he was not given a ticket.
The cop just came along to explain that it had taken quite a bit of time to get the accident cleaned up and that it really wasn't the student's fault that he was late for class.
I'm very hard on students that come to class late, so I guess this fellow figured out that bringing a cop along would be a good alibi. First time I've ever had a cop vouch for a late student! Pretty funny!
Anyway, there was no injuries and that's the important thing.
Basil: Glad your NM accident was just a minor one. I know it's annoying, but cars can always be fixed.
The student had spun off the road while driving onto the campus, apparently doing major damage to his car. Due to the snow and slippery conditons, he was not given a ticket.
The cop just came along to explain that it had taken quite a bit of time to get the accident cleaned up and that it really wasn't the student's fault that he was late for class.
I'm very hard on students that come to class late, so I guess this fellow figured out that bringing a cop along would be a good alibi. First time I've ever had a cop vouch for a late student! Pretty funny!
Anyway, there was no injuries and that's the important thing.
Basil: Glad your NM accident was just a minor one. I know it's annoying, but cars can always be fixed.
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Great story...
Real nice of that police officer to do that
Real nice of that police officer to do that
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aeronca65t said:
I thought you were retired?