Well I was involved in a fender bender on the way to pick up Emily from school today. I was Appian Way turning left onto Appian Circle ... when the lady behind me decided this was an oppurtunity for her to pass me on the left and struck me in passenger door sliding up into my driver door. As she struck I could see she was on her cell phone. Utterly and obviously without any cogent debate ... somehow in her fantasies in her mind she was not at fault. Instead of exchanging information ... like most people are advised to do by the insurance companies ... she was immediately advesarial and accusatory. She had called the police and apparently her boyfriend ... who arrives before the police ... whereby he adopts an aggressive stances attempting to bully me into admitting some sort of fault. Which of course did not happen. I stayed calm and cool in my car and when the officer arrived I asked him to make sure her boyfriend or whatever stayed away from me. He was being threatening in posture and deameanor ... and wasnt even there to view the accident. After the officer directed us to get our vehicles out of traffic; I gave the officer my information ... told the officer my version of events ... and he let me go to pick up my daughter ... (which by the way corresponded to my description of what I was about) ... the lady lied (and tried to say I had my right turn signal on) ... even as our cars were at rest immediately after the accident my left blinker was still blinking. When I left the officer was still trying to determine her insurance information (I wonder if she had any) ... and she was obviously trying to make sure I couldnt get any insurance information from her ... and enlisting her boyfriend into attempting to intimidate me. Most of you that know me ... understand how fortunate he was that I kept my cool ... and that he was the one in real danger; simply by adopting an aggressive stance with me. If would not have been pretty had it exacerbated. So yes Ive endured a bit of frustration today; not so much from the accident... but from the character of people that I feel basically assaulted. Had the driver of the vehicle not been advesarial and been willing to exchange information, been honest about the events (course Im not sure I could expect honesty from someone talking on the cell phone; in such a hurry that she tries to pass a left turning car on the left in front of her things would have gone much smoother for all concerned)). I suspect that I was met by all this hostility to cover for the possiblity that the person driving did not have insurance, either that ... or the driver was just irresponsible and incapable of both knowing the rules of the road (dont pass on the left on a single lane road) ... (wait for the person ahead of you to complete their turn ... either right or left before trying to go ahead) (you know common sense stuff) ... or she was not capable of admitting error. Basic thing is Im safe (not physically worse for the wear ... my PTSD (trying not to shoot through the roof))... my car has an owie ... Im fully insured (even against the uninsured (if that is the case)) ... I recieved no citations (because I did nothing wrong) I saw him draw out his citation pad for the other driver as I was leaving (so some little satisfaction from that) ... and a better awaking of what it is to be hit by irate ignorant people ... too busy and self-asorbed in their life ... to understand ... that they arent the only people in the world and they must share the road with others ... and quit acting like everyone else is just an object in their way; to be bullied out of it. Yeah my adrenalin has yet to be drawn down ... thanks my friends for enduring my rant.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:21:07 +0000
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