My car was launched across the intersection.  There is no real way to describe the sensation of sound and obscene acceleration I experienced.  OnStar chimed in and a person started talking to me saying the car had been in an accident and was asking me if I was ok.  A guy who witnessed the accident from the oncoming lane on the other side of the light checked on me and told me the guy turned right at the intersection and took off steaming and smoking.  Said it was a dark colored SUV.

 

Cops show up asking me if I'm ok.  Was really jacked up on adrenalin so my bodily checklist was offline.  The witness was giving them info and I saw one of the cop cars speed off down the road where they guy had went.  Called my facility to tell them I was in an accident and I wasn't making it to the job site anytime soon.  Called my wife to tell her what happened and that I was ok.  Ambulance shows up and the cops say I should have them check me out especially as I was on the clock.  Transported to the ER where I spent around 3.5 hrs.  Several sets of vitals and a CAT scan later, I was pronounced with a sprained neck and prescribed Vicodin, Valium and Motrin.  My supervisor showed up 3 times to check on me, the third time with a critical incident report I had to fill out.  My parents kept me company and lent me one of their cars so I could get home.  Thankful that they lived close by for the assist.

 

Cops also showed up a couple of times.  They caught the idiot that hit me.  He was actually in the ER getting blood drawn since he refused the PBT.  I asked if I could see him.  They declined my request much to my disappointment.  He was definitely wasted.  3rd DWI or DUI as they called it.  Driving on a revoked or suspended license and no insurance to speak of.

 

All in all, the Public Safety officers and the medical staff were professional and courteous and I very much appreciated it all.  Today is my last full day of a free 3 month OnStar promotion and I am really glad I had it last night.  My cellphone and mount were still securely attached to the windshield, so I could have used the bluetooth connectivity to call for assistance, it just wouldn't have been as fast.  Never got to thank the witness before the police allowed him to leave.  He was very helpful when the OnStar representative and the police were asking their questions.

 

So, I guess I can honestly say my New Year started out with a bang. 

 

Yeah, he's facing some severe penalties.  3rd DUI/DWI.  Leaving the scene of an accident.  Causing an accident where injury is involved.  Other property damage as he fled.  He left some ugly bread crumbs that the cops had no problem following.  Of course, there is the glaring front damage of his SUV that smoked and steamed as he went.  The cops that brought him to the ER said he wasn't injured.  Thats ok.  Karma is a cruel mistress.

Get well soon. Sue his butt.

 

Sounds about right for WI too.  Apparently 2012 was the year of the drunk wrong way freeway driver down in the Milwaukee area.  I think the total was up near 40 for the year.

Thats no joke - some of the guys I know can work all week and bring home almost nothing.

Heh.  Wage garnishmnet.  LOL  Where he'll be working, he'd be lucky to make $.13/hr working in the kitchen...

 

The day I bought her.

 

 

 

 

Pics taken the other day in the impound yard where it is being stored until my insurance company tows it to the bodyshop for evaluation.

 

Can't believe one stitch of glass broke.  How amazing is that???

 

 

Your car did a good job of protecting the occupants, especially when you see all the damage at the door seams... He must have been FLYING when he hit you. 

If he was driving under a suspended license, he probably was using someone else's car... And THEY have insurance that would cover you! 

My guess on the car damage is $13,000. 

Soft tissue damage to your back is nothing to mess around with. 

I'll ask my wife.  She's a Chiropractor.  She might know a good one. 

FreeEnterprise wrote: Your car did a good job of protecting the occupants, especially when you see all the damage at the door seams... He must have been FLYING when he hit you.

I have to admit, the safety features in the frame itself seems to have absorbed or re-directed the brunt of the energy.  He was moving.  I only saw him maybe 4 car lengths away before he got me.  I didn't have time to draw a breath.  The posted speed limit is 45 mph.  He was easily IMHO doing 10 over before the collision. 

FreeEnterprise wrote: If he was driving under a suspended license, he probably was using someone else's car... And THEY have insurance that would cover you!

This is an unknown at this time.  I'm travelling back down to the area to stop by the Public Safety office to see if I can get a copy of the accident report, then I have to go to the Prosecutor's office at the courthouse to sign some documentation in regards to the accident.  I'll see what I can learn from there as well.  Last but not least, I'm going to see if the impound yard still has the car so I can get some of my stuff out of it. 

FreeEnterprise wrote: My guess on the car damage is $13,000.

We'll see.  If the frame is as bad as I think it is, they might end up totalling it.  That would be a shame, I really liked that car.  It isn't a fitting end for my first new car purchase. 

FreeEnterprise wrote: Soft tissue damage to your back is nothing to mess around with.

Agreed.  I'm plenty sore.   I'll let the meds handle the discomfort.

 

I noticed that.  I took some more pics of it today when I emptied her out this morning.  I'll put them up tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found I could open each door, even the tailgate amazingly enough.  All the stuff in the back is what they shoveled off the street that appeared to belong to my car.  Spoke with the guy at the impound yard.  He was amazed the guy got away, much less get as far as 5 miles away.  Said he found half the guys battery in the middle of the intersection.

 

Found out what I got hit by as well from the accident report.  A 2007 Kia Sportage.  The clerk at the Public Safety Office said she was still busy putting together a list of mailboxes the idiot hit as he fled the scene.  It is a miracle that he didn't hit anyone else before he got caught.

 

I'm only 22 and have gone through 6 vehicles to which none were my fault. All the defensive... and even offensive driving can't stop the freak surprises I have been through. Bad luck i suppose.

 

Well thankfully I was a part of my family's insurance. They all had not a blemish on their records. I seemed to have been the bad egg among the 4 of us on the insurance. Although my older sister has been in 3, of which 2 were her fault to which both were completely totalled.

 

4 of mine were totalled out of the 6 with 2 being technically totalled because the repairs would have been more than the car's value.

 

I think the scariest accident I had been in was when I was still in highschool. Was driving to school like any other day and was taking the exit off the highway to keep the local hole-in-the-wall donut shop afloat with my purchase when a brand new Chevy 2500 pulling a 25ft. gooseneck trailor flew by me and decided halfway through passing me that it was a good time to get into my lane to take the exit as well. Unfortunately for me I had only a few seconds to decide whether to make a multicar pile-up or take my chances hitting the service road that was 25ft. straight down. I took the high dive going 45, hit the service road somehow threadnig the needle between two cars down there, bounced like a bouncy ball into a 4 ft deep cement culvert, somehow bounced again out of that and came to a stop in a guy's front lawn. None of my airbags deployed and I left the steering wheel with a nice dent from my chest hitting it.

 

The funny thing is that the first thing I did was go to the owner of the lawn I just excavated and let him know I was terribly sorry about it.He then proceded to tell me he has seen many cars throughout his 40+ years of living there fly off the highway and that I was the first to not have my vehicle roll over in the process. I then called my father, who's a police officer, to let him know I just flew my truck off the highway like a failed RedBull human glider competition and that I was fine but the truck is pretty beat up.

 

I somehow managed to have gotten the front license plate of the truck as it flew by me monets before it cut me off seared into my brain, so my father managed to pull some strings in his department and got the whole legal ball rolling VERY quickly.

 

We ended up driving the truck to the wrecker, which I find amazing the frame held together as well as it did considering the angle of impact from both the service road and the culvert. The frame machine at the wrecker almost broke trying to realign the frame of the truck as well... Which is why I am now a devout follower of Dodge trucks.

 

I actually work in personal motor insurance at the minute. It's definitely hit and miss, to this day I'm still convinced that our "pricing algorythm" is actually a locked room with a monkey slapping it's balls on a calculator. Insurance pricing is an extremely complex beast.

Now that's not to say it's always really high. I'd say the average price I see for  25+ married with a "normal" car is about £300 - £400. However my mate got a quote through for a 2005 Vauxhall Astra 1.6l diesel for £32,000 annual premium . It's an insurance companies way of telling you that you'd do better elsewhere and we don't want your risk. The driver was 17 but still I've covered hundreds his age and they usually come out at a couple of grand.

Do US/Canuckistan insurers still rate male/female differently? 

The policies I deal with (Aviva) are £20m third party property and unlimited medical/damages to person liability.

I think 4 fault claims in 4 years and we wouldn't want to renew your policy and a lot of non-fault will likely do the same and something worth remembering that fault isn't always about who was to blame for the incident. If an insurance company takes ANY sort of hit on a claim then you can rest assured they are viewing the incident as though you did it for a laugh.

Nope.

Now since the insurers have to rate equally which way do you think they'll go. They can lower premiums for male drivers to that of females or they can bring females in line with males. Yea they are, in general, raising insurance for ladies. So this wang is now likely to pay higher premiums for the twins as a result of his crusade.

GPA does seem a bit daft. Insurance is the major thing keeping me off the road and from my experience I think when I do get a quote for my first car I'll be lying through my teeth about my circumstances. My car will not be worth claiming on anyway and even if the insurer finds out I was lying they'll still need to pay third party costs so my conscience will be pretty much clear. 

Also, if I get in any sort of accident, I am sure the insurance company is just going to write me a check for $1200 and total my truck. I know someone who owned a 1993 Lightning and got sideswiped and the insurance company tried to write it off for around that price when fair market value for a real lightning is around 10k.

I've been searching online for a replacement vehicle and found two nearly identical to the one I had only they are 2012 models.  One is brand new and the other has 8001 miles on it.  The brand new one is eligible for GM incentives like 60 month 0% financing, $1000 EVA and GM family discount.  The only thing left is to haggle on the sticker price on top of the discounts.  I'll have to call the dealership to verify that the above mentioned incentives do apply to that vehicle.

 

 

 

 

No he didn't.  He was driving his mother's car on a revoked/suspended license.  She HAD insurance.  HAD meaning past tense.  Most insurance companies will void insurance if a driver was DUI/OWI.  My brother has 3 OWI convictions on his record.  While I was living with him, the insurance companies somehow knew it.  Each of my proofs of insurance had his name displayed prominently at the bottom stating that coverage was null and void if he was caught operating any of my vehicles.  I can only imagine this was the same with this guy's mother.  If she lost her insurance, her car is gone for good, unless he threw himself under the bus for her and told authorities that he took the car without her knowledge.  Even then, I don't think that would be good enough.

 

Anyway, pics of the new ride are posted above.

Hello,

I also caught by cop. I was drunk and cop caught me. They charge me a fine of $300. I hate cop But thanks to god i already insured myself as a drunk insurance My lawyer pay the bill  i am free to go.....

So, what is the fine when you kill somebody while drunk driving in Romania?  $600??  How much of that will your lawyer pay?