Funny how some people manage to be angry even though they're totally responsible for causing a collision
I'm Shocked that Ford Allows This 4289exactly the a rail I drove my Olds Calais for about a week without the clutch. Put a good 250-300 miles on it like that. Was pretty fun actually. I first...
Post #1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well, there's a problem. Today, after dropping Mandy and I off at school-work, Rob and Mike, with Mike driving, were in an accident.
From what I could piece together, they were heading up to post to buy gas for the van. They were in a green light-left turn yield, and Rob told Mike that he could go. So Mike did. He saw the car coming at him in time to gun the engine and the impact was directly behind the pbuttenger seat, which saved Rob's life, as the impact was enough to dent in the entire side of the van, kick the pbuttenger seats to a roughly 45 degree angle, and send the van into another car, which it front ended and sent into another car. This big hurky van was then knocked onto its side and sent skidding. Had the car hit where Rob was sitting, he, according to the investigating police, would have been end. Rob and Mike were hurt the most, with scrapes, sore muscles and seat belt bruising. The driver and two teen aged daughters of the other car were sent to the hospital with shock and bruising. The drivers and pbuttengers of the other two cars walked away. Mike and Rob are both still in a sort of state of shock. We're borrowing Mandy's boyfriend's Mother's van, as Geico refuses to pay for a rental after my accident three years ago.
We are canceling future plans left and right. Both Mike and Rob are battered but un-bowed. The money we'd planned on using for the trip is going to another car-van. We don't know how much we'll have to spend on another vehicle. The van is, of course, totaled. Mike and Rob are each blaming each other. I think I've experienced every emotion there is. I was at work when I got the call saying they were at the hospital.
Some one up there loves and-or hates us. They saved Rob and Mike, but the car is a loss. I'd rather have Rob and Mike. Purrs and prayers for things to go better for us would be really appreciated right about now.
Pam S. still going in and out of shock
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OK, got the police report today. Mike was given a ticket for $10 and $100 court costs for "Failure to Yield." The woman who hit him claimed that she was only doing 45 mph and had hit the brakes before she hit Mike. I'll Post an album of the damages to both vehicles later. BTW she was cited for driving while her license was revoked. Mike is still considered totally at fault for the accident.
Geico is refusing to pay us anything for the van. They are going to replace this woman's car. I feel so frustrated and angry right now. Please help me get over my anger with this woman and the insurance system that will reward an illegal driver.
Even though the woman was driving with a revoked license, the woman was judged to be not at fault. I want to know what she did to lose her license. The damage to both her Lincoln Town Car and the van is horrendous. I don't think that she could have been doing only 45 in a 45 at the time of impact. It is a long straight stretch of road. There is now way that she couldn't have seen Mike and that big white van. Yes, it was raining, but not heavily. So that shouldn't be an excuse for her. Again, Please help me get over my anger with this. I upset Rob and Jim by calling her what I think of her, and I don't usually use that kind of language.
And don't ask me about the VA and their treatment of Rob lately.
Pam S. sill living a nightmare.
