So I get rear ended by a drunk chick last week.
lucky your ok
03-07-08, 10:05 PM
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Back during my college years in AZ, my beemer was hit at the right side by some old lady driving a mazda miata when i was making a right turn from the middle lane. She was at fault.
Anyway, I went through the procedures immediately and throughout the process her insurance company gave me hell - such as only willing to pay 2 weeks of car rental when bmw stated they need 3 weeks and also only willing to pay 2/3 of the total cost that bmw quoted. They tried to bully me. I went to my school and have a in-school lawyer write up a litigation claim FOC. Next thing I know, a few days later the same insurance lady who was a total ***** to me over the phone, called me up and was super nice to me and they agreed to pay everything in full.. Haha.
So yea, if the insurance company gives u hell.. you know what to do.
Anyway, I went through the procedures immediately and throughout the process her insurance company gave me hell - such as only willing to pay 2 weeks of car rental when bmw stated they need 3 weeks and also only willing to pay 2/3 of the total cost that bmw quoted. They tried to bully me. I went to my school and have a in-school lawyer write up a litigation claim FOC. Next thing I know, a few days later the same insurance lady who was a total ***** to me over the phone, called me up and was super nice to me and they agreed to pay everything in full.. Haha.
So yea, if the insurance company gives u hell.. you know what to do.
03-08-08, 05:02 AM
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Hopefully that's all it is. A friend of mine got backed into by an Expedtion while he was pumping gas. Since most bumpers nowadays are made of some sort of plastic material, it flexes back quite a bit. Anyway, the bumper got slightly misaligned and scratched and the driver of the Expedition gave my friend $300. At first he thought, WOW that's a lot of money for this amount of damage. Once the car got to the body shop, it turns out that the truck did a lot more damage than he thought, but since the bumper flexed back out he didn't immediately see the damage. Apparently the guy backed into it so hard that he bent some of the bumper supports and ended up doing about about $900 in damage.
03-08-08, 07:34 AM
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actually if you wanted to be a total turd (basically like the rest of america) you could really get a boat load of $$$$$ out of her ins. company. She was DUI and hit you, there is nothing they can argue about there. The DUI makes it even worse. I would make sure you they replace everything including and cover your rental.
since you waited more than a week it doesn't look good on your part at all. No matter how busy you are you can call at your lunch time. No excuse. I work crazy weeks too and I would have managed. That's laziness on your part, but now I just sounding like a jerk.
Glad you are ok, and sorry about your car.
since you waited more than a week it doesn't look good on your part at all. No matter how busy you are you can call at your lunch time. No excuse. I work crazy weeks too and I would have managed. That's laziness on your part, but now I just sounding like a jerk.
Glad you are ok, and sorry about your car.
He started giving the guy a DUI test and I asked him if I could recorded it and he said "sure". So I grabbed my camcorder and recorded the whole DUI test. They hauled his arss off and towed his van.
Turns out he was like a bum, had no address and no insurance. My insurance had to pay it all along with me and my $500 gone.
But the video.. priceless
03-08-08, 09:53 AM
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Back during my college years in AZ, my beemer was hit at the right side by some old lady driving a mazda miata when i was making a right turn from the middle lane. She was at fault.
Anyway, I went through the procedures immediately and throughout the process her insurance company gave me hell - such as only willing to pay 2 weeks of car rental when bmw stated they need 3 weeks and also only willing to pay 2/3 of the total cost that bmw quoted. They tried to bully me. I went to my school and have a in-school lawyer write up a litigation claim FOC. Next thing I know, a few days later the same insurance lady who was a total ***** to me over the phone, called me up and was super nice to me and they agreed to pay everything in full.. Haha.
So yea, if the insurance company gives u hell.. you know what to do.
Anyway, I went through the procedures immediately and throughout the process her insurance company gave me hell - such as only willing to pay 2 weeks of car rental when bmw stated they need 3 weeks and also only willing to pay 2/3 of the total cost that bmw quoted. They tried to bully me. I went to my school and have a in-school lawyer write up a litigation claim FOC. Next thing I know, a few days later the same insurance lady who was a total ***** to me over the phone, called me up and was super nice to me and they agreed to pay everything in full.. Haha.
So yea, if the insurance company gives u hell.. you know what to do.
03-08-08, 10:12 AM
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03-20-08, 09:58 AM
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Update
I talked to the other party who the drunk chick hit last night. The other lady said she contacted the police station and talked to the officer who questioned the drunk chick.
The drunk chick just last week came in to the police station to a response of their summons, the chick gave a verbal testimony saying that she had taken some sleeping pills. At which point the officer charged her for DUI and now she isn't getting her car back.
Yea, if driving drunk wasn't stupid enough, coming into the police station and admitting that you were driving under the influence had to be the stupidest thing she has done.
OH well, I called the insurance company and filed a report also last week and I'll probably call them sometime next week with the bodyshop info. Yea I'm lagging, my car is drivable so I'm not too concerned.
I talked to the other party who the drunk chick hit last night. The other lady said she contacted the police station and talked to the officer who questioned the drunk chick.
The drunk chick just last week came in to the police station to a response of their summons, the chick gave a verbal testimony saying that she had taken some sleeping pills. At which point the officer charged her for DUI and now she isn't getting her car back.
Yea, if driving drunk wasn't stupid enough, coming into the police station and admitting that you were driving under the influence had to be the stupidest thing she has done.
OH well, I called the insurance company and filed a report also last week and I'll probably call them sometime next week with the bodyshop info. Yea I'm lagging, my car is drivable so I'm not too concerned.
03-20-08, 10:06 AM
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wow that sucks....yes.. i would take all you can cuz if it was the other way around they would do the same..."your either doing the screwing or ur getting screwed....".. i made the mistake and was really nice to this hot girl that slammed her door into mine...sure enough the next day i got into a car accident and they lawyered up,.,,,they got 15k off my insurance...
03-20-08, 10:34 AM
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03-20-08, 11:12 AM
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Last time I got rear-ended on the highway, when we went in for estimates, the guy doing the estimate thought we were best buds. Nothing wrong with making the best of a bad situation.