So My Brother Got Into a Car Accident....

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: chusteczka
Focus on your midterms and forget about this situation.
Worry about it after your tests are complete.
Poor grades this semester can have worse consequences for you than your brother's accident.

Yeah, I know and I'm trying. Just hard to concentrate when I know my parents are finding out tomorrow and all the hell that is going to break loose. Especially since I'm older ...I'm going to get chewed out..

You're going to get chewed out?

Anyhow, the RSX has notoriously bad handling (I have one), best investment is a new set of springs to drop it another inch or two in the front and if you have a premium a new set of brakes.

Meaning I'm going to get chewed out by my parents when they come up to visit us. he didn't call me when it happened and didn't even come back. Instead he kept going to LA. If my parents find out what happened from him and find out he isn't even here, when they come up to get the car back and etc. They going to yell at me for not taking care of my bro and etc because they have no one physically present to punish =(

Well if my little brother crashed his car I'd probably lay into him too, but the real whippin should come from the parents.

I don't know why they would get angry, they should do their job as parents, it's not your job to punish your younger brother, though as an older brother you should lay into him for being a dumbass.

My brother isn't getting a car because we know he'll do something stupid. :laugh:

Yeah, I already know he is going to get a whippin from my parents. haha, it scares me how much he's going to be in trouble (wouldn't have been so bad if he had stayed in stockton). I think they will be angry because they have no one to blame and they kinda gave me an implied responsibility to watch over him since he goes the same university as me. Just human nature you know?

Kind of, I know my parents wouldn't do that though. Different parenting philosophy.

****** that car can be hard to handle though, really.


Anyhow, I also think any parents that buys their kid a car and only gets them liability insurance is an idiot, if you're going to mess up at any point while driving it's most likely gonna be when you're a kid.

Yeah, my mom can probably understand but my dad on the other hand... Anyways, yeah, I think it's the tires because I had some nittos on my car and it would hydroplane like mad (of course i wasn't driving hard during turns or anything but i could feel it going straight). I switched to some yokohama all season ones and it was a world of difference.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
So if you hydroplane and hit someone. How much are you at fault?

Depends probably on a number of factors, if your brother wasn't speeding, wasn't zigging and zagging in traffic and wasn't being an idiot. Probably none.

However cars don't plane for no reason.

Well I asked him if he was speeding or anything and he said no. =/ So i'm going to have to take his word for it. he was getting off an off ramp and was a curvy one so I believe you can if you have some crap luck and made bad decisions to counter it.

 

[RbSX]

Link

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: chusteczka
Focus on your midterms and forget about this situation.
Worry about it after your tests are complete.
Poor grades this semester can have worse consequences for you than your brother's accident.

Yeah, I know and I'm trying. Just hard to concentrate when I know my parents are finding out tomorrow and all the hell that is going to break loose. Especially since I'm older ...I'm going to get chewed out..

You're going to get chewed out?

Anyhow, the RSX has notoriously bad handling (I have one), best investment is a new set of springs to drop it another inch or two in the front and if you have a premium a new set of brakes.

Meaning I'm going to get chewed out by my parents when they come up to visit us. he didn't call me when it happened and didn't even come back. Instead he kept going to LA. If my parents find out what happened from him and find out he isn't even here, when they come up to get the car back and etc. They going to yell at me for not taking care of my bro and etc because they have no one physically present to punish =(

Well if my little brother crashed his car I'd probably lay into him too, but the real whippin should come from the parents.

I don't know why they would get angry, they should do their job as parents, it's not your job to punish your younger brother, though as an older brother you should lay into him for being a dumbass.

My brother isn't getting a car because we know he'll do something stupid. :laugh:

Yeah, I already know he is going to get a whippin from my parents. haha, it scares me how much he's going to be in trouble (wouldn't have been so bad if he had stayed in stockton). I think they will be angry because they have no one to blame and they kinda gave me an implied responsibility to watch over him since he goes the same university as me. Just human nature you know?

Kind of, I know my parents wouldn't do that though. Different parenting philosophy.

****** that car can be hard to handle though, really.


Anyhow, I also think any parents that buys their kid a car and only gets them liability insurance is an idiot, if you're going to mess up at any point while driving it's most likely gonna be when you're a kid.

Yeah, my mom can probably understand but my dad on the other hand... Anyways, yeah, I think it's the tires because I had some nittos on my car and it would hydroplane like mad (of course i wasn't driving hard during turns or anything but i could feel it going straight). I switched to some yokohama all season ones and it was a world of difference.

Before your parents rip into your brother, the michelins on the RSX are terrible, the first thing I did when I got the car was swap them off.

Read this: Link

 

[NaOH]

I don't see anything

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
I don't see anything

Link didn't get added the first time, weird.

 

[NaOH]

damn...that sucks......I can believe that he lost traction just because his tires were bad. We never changed them when we got the car. If that was the case, and he is not at fault. What exactly happens? Does that mean we cannot be sued? I doubt our car would be fixed for us right, since we don't have full coverage?

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
So if you hydroplane and hit someone. How much are you at fault?

Depends probably on a number of factors, if your brother wasn't speeding, wasn't zigging and zagging in traffic and wasn't being an idiot. Probably none.

However cars don't plane for no reason.

If his car was the first one to leave its lane and go skidding across the highway, hitting the median and then another car (from the OP) I am going to place good money that his level of fault is more than "probably none."

 

[SaturnX]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
So if you hydroplane and hit someone. How much are you at fault?

Depends probably on a number of factors, if your brother wasn't speeding, wasn't zigging and zagging in traffic and wasn't being an idiot. Probably none.

However cars don't plane for no reason.

Most insurance companies don't accept weather conditions as an excuse for a collision. It's the driver's responsibility to drive appropriately given the conditions. Cars don't hydroplane for no reason.

I'm willing to say your brother will probably be 100% at fault, if not somewhat less.

 

[NaOH]

Well, we'll see what happens tomorrow. We'll be calling everywhere to see what's happening and to find out where the hell his car is at so that we can tow it back to san jose or stockton.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: SaturnX

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
So if you hydroplane and hit someone. How much are you at fault?

Depends probably on a number of factors, if your brother wasn't speeding, wasn't zigging and zagging in traffic and wasn't being an idiot. Probably none.

However cars don't plane for no reason.

Most insurance companies don't accept weather conditions as an excuse for a collision. It's the driver's responsibility to drive appropriately given the conditions. Cars don't hydroplane for no reason.

I'm willing to say your brother will probably be 100% at fault, if not somewhat less.

Yeah, I just read that in a pdf file for a sheriff's office. Well, i guess he won't be driving here at school anymore. I just hope his car is fixable since it'd be a waste. My dad sold his tundra to get that car and a van for himself.

 

[brtspears2]

Ah, I remember when I was 18, driving up I-5 to and from So. Cal. I drove like a madman.

Only good thing out of this is no one got hurt badly. The cars, repairable/replaceable.

 

[freebee]

Great thread. Keep us updated.

I predict massive lawsuit (an arm isn't too bad, even with complete loss of function, permanant disfiguring, blah-blah..). Unfortunately, there isn't any debate. He's 100% at fault. Loss of control might be worse for him in court. Its negligence regardless, but you might want to portray it as mechanical failure, bad tires, etc.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: freebee
Great thread. Keep us updated.

I predict massive lawsuit (an arm isn't too bad, even with complete loss of function, permanant disfiguring, blah-blah..). Unfortunately, there isn't any debate. He's 100% at fault. Loss of control might be worse for him in court. Its negligence regardless, but you might want to portray it as mechanical failure, bad tires, etc.

Well I'd doubt we'd have to go to court. Our insurance should take care of all of it. Unless they decide to milk us for over 30 grand in court.

I'll tell you guys what happens tomorrow after he calls my parents.

 

[dxkj]

Does your brother speed? Most off ramps say like 20mph or 40mph or something ridiculously slow, so Im betting he was going faster than the recommended.

And if you hydroplane or react badly, you are 100% at faul because you didn't control your car. If you are driving through snow or water or bad conditions, and wreck into someone, it is obvious you were going too fast to control your car.

He will be written up as 100% at fault and be 100% responsible for charges $$ etc, and only having 30k liability is fairly stupid. The price for 100/300k couldnt have been more than a few more dollars a month, and 30k gets eaten up very fast.


Best of luck man, and tell your parents to go @#$ themselves if they want to hold you responsible for any of this. Your brother took off and then went on after the wreck? that is friggin irresponsible and stupid.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: dxkj
Does your brother speed? Most off ramps say like 20mph or 40mph or something ridiculously slow, so Im betting he was going faster than the recommended.

And if you hydroplane or react badly, you are 100% at faul because you didn't control your car. If you are driving through snow or water or bad conditions, and wreck into someone, it is obvious you were going too fast to control your car.

He will be written up as 100% at fault and be 100% responsible for charges $$ etc, and only having 30k liability is fairly stupid. The price for 100/300k couldnt have been more than a few more dollars a month, and 30k gets eaten up very fast.


Best of luck man, and tell your parents to go @#$ themselves if they want to hold you responsible for any of this. Your brother took off and then went on after the wreck? that is friggin irresponsible and stupid.

I'm not sure what policy we have, but I'm assuming we have the cheapest and judging the situation by that. I will find out what policy we actually have tomorrow since my mom takes care of all that (and she is pretty cheap). I didn't completely yell and tear him one but I talked to him very sternly that he should have just called me and STAYED IN STOCKTON for the weekend after the accident. Then I told him that it would help his case A LOT with my parents if he was actually in stockton by the time they get here. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

 

[rqle]

His/your brother liability insurance will cover the other party for how much you paid your premium for. If your coverage is $30k your insurance will over up to $30k. If their injury or pain/suffering mounts to more than $30k then your brother is liable for the remaining.

Your brother doesn?t own a home or anything correct? By law they can even go after any asset including your brother home if cost mounts that high. Generally most people that own property have insurance policy of $300k+ or an umbrella policy. If you brother is broke, getting sue will do him little damage.

Two parties are involved. From what I read, the girl didn?t do anything to cause the accident therefore by default your brother is to blame solely.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: rqle
His/your brother liability insurance will cover the other party for how much you paid your premium for. If your coverage is $30k your insurance will over up to $30k. If their injury or pain/suffering mounts to more than $30k then your brother is liable for the remaining.

Your brother doesn?t own a home or anything correct? By law they can even go after any asset including your brother home if cost mounts that high. Generally most people that own property have insurance policy of $300k+ or an umbrella policy. If you brother is broke, getting sue will do him little damage.

Two parties are involved. From what I read, the girl didn?t do anything to cause the accident therefore by default your brother is to blame solely.

Yeah, so if they sue for more and he is broke......then what?