2008 comes in with a BANG . . . (long post) . . .
Thanks all!
Well . . . 2008 has come in with a BANG :cannon::tank2: . . .
Or should I say crash . . .
Last weekend my wife was in an auto accident . . . she's OK, but the car was totalled!
I, of course, went to the scene the next day and documented it in photos.
Anyway, it was one of those 'both drivers at fault' as it was at an entrance to a shopping center, but we got the ticket since one of the occupants of the other car was taken to the hospital in an ambulance (thats what the officer told her, anyway).
And . . . he is still in the hospital (as far as we know)!
She was making a left turn into the parking lot across two lanes of traffic, which was backed up past the turn in, two vehicles left room for her to turn and waved her to make the turn . . . then the other car in the accident was in the right turn only lane, but went straight and crashed in to our car.
They were traveling pretty fast for a right turn only lane . . . which did continue on from the entrance to the parking lot as there is a stoplight about 100 feet from the parking lot entrance.
Now . . . here is the kicker . . .
The two guys in the other car are both handicapped . . . and the injuries were quite possibly more severe due to the handicap.
The driver wasn't hurt . . . the passenger is the one still hospitalized (as far as we know).
They claim he broke a couple of extremeties and his neck, as well as various other internal injuries!
Now . . . we have complete full coverage on both of our vehicles . . . they have basic coverage (called PL/PD here).
Our contact at the insurance company has told us that the driver has already asked our insurance company to replace their car with a new one . . . to which they informed him that they are not . . . and told him that he needs to contact his own insurance company.
Well . . . without writing a novel here, they have hired one of those 'We'll get you every penny you deserve!' lawyers that you see on TV . . .
:sqconfused::angry1:
Anyway . . . at the store I saw some photos coming out of the machine in the lab.
Some shots of the same intersection where the accident occured . . . and some of a guy in a hospital bed and one other person .
Well, as it turns out, these are the same people that were involved in this accident.
Now, my first thought was to make an extra set of these prints, but my moral upbringing told me that this would not be the right thing to do, not to mention that it could create a legal hassle for the store and myself.
The photos pretty much showed that the injuries were not as severe as they made it sound . . .
I'll keep you posted . . .
And . . . on top of all of this . . . my coffee maker died on me Tuesday morning . . . :sqerr:
