And the events unfold...

[camwyn]

The car accident last night?

1. Guy who hit us wanted us to go to a bodyshop run by a friend of his. Said he'd pay for everything. Didn't want the insurance companies involved. "I'm a good driver!" says he, "I just have speeding tickets!"

2. It's possible to get your insurance yanked up here if they find out you had an accident you never told 'em about.

3. The intersection was marked no turns. As in, no left turn, no right turn.

4. The other driver turned out to have tickets on his motorcycle license, and apparently a few others as well.

5. The other driver admitted several times that he was at fault.

6. The other driver had no insurance... he was planning on getting it in December for this particular car.

So. Let's review, shall we? A right hand turn from the second lane, at an intersection where turns were illegal, by a driver with no insurance, who had a dog loose in his car, who wanted to keep the police AND the other insurance company (Vicki's) from hearing about it. True, he stopped the car to check on us rather than hit-and-run, but...

There's a song in the States. It goes like this:

Na na na na... na na na na... hey hey hey... gooood-bye.

Now I get to go into town and go shopping. Trinket time.

Today's pulp survival tip is #160. If you step on something and hear a 'click', refrain from moving any further until told how to do so by a competent professional. That is, unless you like being a first-reel casualty.

Comments

[kyrielle]

Grrrrrr...people like that....

*sigh*

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

This person is a walking menace to society.

[mephron]

or a driving one.

He may autodarwinate at some point, however.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'd rather he not do it anywhere near people I know and enjoy.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I'm just thankful that you and Vicki are all right, and I hope this doesn't turn out too financially painful for her!

That said: okay, it's clear that the 'right' thing was to get Asshole busted. No question, no argument, the greater good is clearly served thus.

But... if you'd let him pay, let it be handled privately, Vicki would not have to pay the deductible, and her insurance would not go up. I presume she has/was forced to get Uninsured Motorist coverage, or you'd be a bit further up the creek.

I hope Asshole gets his license yanked. I fear it will do no good (after all, he's already quite the scofflaw), but it might make him think. There's also the schaudenfreude potential of the fact that Vicki's insurance will hound him for their pound of flesh for Quite Some Time, without her having to worry about it -- after all, you likewise have no assurance that Asshole actually had the money to pay off the mechanic!

So I don't know what I would have done -- probably nothing without an estimate from a body shop.

Still, the important thing is that you're all safe and not dead. After that, it's negotiable.

-- Lorrie

[camwyn]

For what it's worth the final decision still has yet to be made on who's paying for what. Vicki has some phone calls to make tomorrow that should settle the whole thing.

Apparently His Nibs hasn't reported his accident to the cops yet. If he doesn't do it before 7 PM tomorrow evening (48 hours), he's officially in Leaving the Scene of an Accident territory, and that's license suspension, to my knowledge.

We'll see how it goes.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I do hope they yank it.

-- L