Well, I was on my way home from work, and the inevitable happened -- a car accident. I don't feel like drawing a schematic of the scene at this point, maybe I will at a later date.
So I was driving down a four lane (two lanes each way) road, and I move over into a dedicated straight lane. Ahead of me, in the other lane -- a left turn and straight lane, is a Chevrolet Suburban towing an enclosed trailer. I'm driving along in the right lane and I head through an intersection, here is where the left lane ends and must merge into the right lane.
This lady decides she wants my lane, so she tries to change lane mid-intersection (illegal) and is now straddling my lane and hers. Well, I had nowhere to go but into her, so my drivers side hits the side of her trailer and procedes to slam into the curb. She pulls over, and I have no choice but the pull over, so I'm stopped there. She immediately gets out of her car and starts blaming and accusing me. "Why are you in such a hurry?" "Look what you did" etc etc Her daughter, who was in a truck ahead of her and had also pulled over and starts coming at me too. She calls her father, who was on a motorcycle ahead of them and is now at their house. She says "Some asshole hit mom" and back he comes to the scene. I took offense at what she said, so I said something to her mom and she says "Well, she calls 'em as she seems 'em". Instead of lashing out, I keep my cool. I call the police and she gets snippy and says "Yeah, that's a good idea."
While waiting for the police to arrive on the scene, she and her daughter are still accusing me. Once again, I keep my cool. The police finally arrive. As soon as the officer pulled up, her attitude took a complete 180. She was still blaming me, but was not being as aggressive. Paperwork gets filled out. Yadda yadda... The cop explains to us that at this point, neither of us are at fault. Mind boggling I know. He said I was probably doing in excess of speed limit, and that she merged at an inappropriate time. However, neither of us were issued citations.
So to make a long story even longer: my car is f'ed, her trailer is almost pristine, and both of us walk away with no citations.
Now, what everyone really wants to see (camera phone, sorry):
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So I was driving down a four lane (two lanes each way) road, and I move over into a dedicated straight lane. Ahead of me, in the other lane -- a left turn and straight lane, is a Chevrolet Suburban towing an enclosed trailer. I'm driving along in the right lane and I head through an intersection, here is where the left lane ends and must merge into the right lane.
This lady decides she wants my lane, so she tries to change lane mid-intersection (illegal) and is now straddling my lane and hers. Well, I had nowhere to go but into her, so my drivers side hits the side of her trailer and procedes to slam into the curb. She pulls over, and I have no choice but the pull over, so I'm stopped there. She immediately gets out of her car and starts blaming and accusing me. "Why are you in such a hurry?" "Look what you did" etc etc Her daughter, who was in a truck ahead of her and had also pulled over and starts coming at me too. She calls her father, who was on a motorcycle ahead of them and is now at their house. She says "Some asshole hit mom" and back he comes to the scene. I took offense at what she said, so I said something to her mom and she says "Well, she calls 'em as she seems 'em". Instead of lashing out, I keep my cool. I call the police and she gets snippy and says "Yeah, that's a good idea."
While waiting for the police to arrive on the scene, she and her daughter are still accusing me. Once again, I keep my cool. The police finally arrive. As soon as the officer pulled up, her attitude took a complete 180. She was still blaming me, but was not being as aggressive. Paperwork gets filled out. Yadda yadda... The cop explains to us that at this point, neither of us are at fault. Mind boggling I know. He said I was probably doing in excess of speed limit, and that she merged at an inappropriate time. However, neither of us were issued citations.
So to make a long story even longer: my car is f'ed, her trailer is almost pristine, and both of us walk away with no citations.
Now, what everyone really wants to see (camera phone, sorry):
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