i've been in a car accident....

doesn't look as bad as i remember.

(continued wellwishes from SW London, btw)

Looks pretty friggin bad to me.

I was just rear-ended by a large pickup truck, maybe 5-10mph. No apparent damage to my car, but it's possible I may have a sore back tomorrow. I figured I didn't need to get the cops involved, since it was so minor, so I just took his license, phone #, name, and address. Right thing to do or wrong?

sorry, but RONG.

Should maybe have exchanged insurance info, but yeah if it's a fender-bender no need to do much more than that. Get a heating pad, if you don't already have one, to help with the potential aches.

No fenders were even bent, tho. Yeah, I should have gotten more info. I wasn't really thinking clearly at the time.

i saw i gigantic refrigeration truck stop in the middle of the road and then back into some poor woman in a crappy little chevy. totally destroying the front end. it was classic. the lady was fine - if not kind of insane with anger/adrenaline - so much so that a squeegee kid had to console her and then park her car for her!

is a 5mph prang any worse than say a ride on a rollercoaster when it comes to aches sprains & whiplash?

is the bingo ever here?

fucking fuck

I'm alright, as is the guy whose truck I crashed into, as is his truck. My car I just bought half a year ago is totalled, though. No collision insurance. : (

This really couldn't happen at a worse time considering not only am I flat broke, but I'm supposed to be moving this weekend.

damn dude what put you in the karma hole

that really sucks, is what I meant to say

(I can't bring myself to post to RIP threads or even birthday threads but somebody totals an automobile I'm all over it. Nice going)

sorry to hear this rev

It's cool, Tombot. No offense taken.

this is so sad!

Metro Transit's website tells me the fastest bus trip to and from work is about an hour and forty minutes, which will be but down to an hour and ten minutes after I move.

cut down

well that's a little better

must have been terrifying

That totally sucks, sorry to hear it.

Damn. Sorry Rev, that sounds awful.

Oh man, Rev. You have my condolences. When my car got totalled I felt like I'd killed one of my best friends.

My car-totaling was both a thrilling near-near-death experience and in a weird way a relief at not having to deal with all the crap that was wrong with my car.

aw sorry rev :( if it makes you feel any better (and i know it won't but i'm trying) i just spent 10 months doing hour and 15 to two hour trips to work (depending on transit situations)

Gave up driving for 5 years after car-total. Prob not an option for most.

how rotten. sorry about that.

Thanks for the condolences everyone.

I wish I could give up driving (and part of my reason for moving was that it would allow me to cut down on driving), but giving up driving altogether isn't really feasible for me at this time. I work in kind of a weird place where there really isn't any viable point A to point B connector via public transit, even though it isn't really that far away in the grand scheme of things.

Is carpooling an option, Rev? I've never tried it before myself with Metro, so I can't say...what about their Flexcar program?

My friend who I work for said he'll give me rides home (but not to) for the time being, but I'm way out of his way. The Flexcar thing is a good idea, I'll look into that. Thanks.

sorry rev, but glad you are okay.

Rev, I am sorry and suprised to hear this. And you are a good driver! (And I do not say that often!) Was this a driving into/under monster truck situation? That'll total any car.

ay, under

oh man Rev, so sorry to see this thread! I'm glad you're okay.

Flexcar got bought out by Zipcar - I use them occasionally.

wait, rev = The Reverend? that's some sub-tomboto shit

yeahyeahyeah, "rev" = images-off account

I just witnessed a church van try to beat a red light very late, clip a fairly clean hi-riser caddy, do a 180 and damn near roll over.

was it full of nuns?

Drove over a piece of metal (piece of a truck or container or something) that looked like cardboard but wasn't. Loud banging noises, two right tires shredded, front wheel blocked (brake, probabaly, damage on the underside of the car. I'm fine, but damn you, anonymous truck driver. I expect my insurance will go up because in principle you have to be able to avoid or stop for everything that's on the road and stuff. :-/

:( sympathies that's a horrible feeling

thx

so got into a minor accident last friday - car is perfectly fine except for dents + scrapes, and driver's side door won't open because of the weird way in which the front quarter panel is dented.

reported the accident to my insurance company, and the other driver did to theirs as well - now they are offering to pay out-of-pocket for my repair, to avoid premiums

any experience with this? I thought you were supposed to offer the out-of-moeny stuff before filing a claim w/ the insurance companies

so last week, I was in a parking garage trying to park so I could see Spectre. for some reason, there was a queue going up all the way to the second level so while there were tons of open spaces, I couldn't really park because I had no space to pull out enough to get into it.

in a dumb move, I tried to negotiate one of the spaces and on doing so, lightly rubbed the back bumper of a car. the person was in the car so I apologized, said it was my fault, and once I managed to be able to park legitimately, got out so I could give her my info. she called the police but as she told the police nobody was injured and the damage was under $500, as per FL law, they said they didn't need to come by. the damage was minimal to both cars - you can see a scratch on my bumper, her damage wasn't even visible in the poor lighting but I assume I left a paint trade given how mine looked. she was polite in the end and we went our separate ways.

the claim that I expected was filed, which was fine. However, then the adjuster asks me if she was in the car at the time. I stated I thought she had just gotten out, but couldn't remember clearly. He then tells me she says she was in the car and reported that she is "sore" now.

I try not to pull the "that's impossible" card because I know injuries can happen even during low speed collisions, but this wasn't a rear end collision at say 10 mph where the impacted car actually vibrated or moved forward after being hit. It was a slight rub of one bumper against another at 3 mph - the damage was so minimal you can't even see from a distance. No denting or crumpling. And she's trying to report an injury?

I also realize that injuries don't immediately show themselves, but she reported to the police at the scene that she wasn't hurt and again - the car did not move, it just rubbed. I'm typically one to give benefit of the doubt, because I know even a ten mph rear-end could hurt someone, but it seems suspect that this slight paint trade would cause her significant pain, especially after she reported no injury at the scene. also, she used exaggerated language at the scene (she actually said "You wrecked my car!" when she got out and suggested I'd been drinking at one point when I hadn't had one all night).

am I likely to get screwed on this one? I took a picture of my vehicle's bumper and sent it to my claims adjuster this morning to show how minor of an impact it was.

yeah, it's not uncommon for people to get encouraged by friends/family/etc to claim unproveable crap like whiplash in an attempt to get more money from your insurance.