Crazy drivers
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My car was stopped in a line waiting to get off on my exit for work. I was listening to Michael Crighton's Timeline on CD, trying to hold on to the last strands of my weekend.:) Well, I never made into to work this morning. Some jack-ass without a driver's license decided my car looked too nice with the rain drops pearling off my shiney white freshly waxed Civic. Something about the rain causes people to lose all sense when it comes to driving. The guy had plenty of room to skid about to the right of me, even had some grass on the shoulder to roll about on if need be. However, for reasons unknown to me, he thought veering directly into my bumper was the best course.:mad: Now, I'm not sure if my car will be totalled, fixed, if I need to look for a new one, whatever. Also, my neck is starting to get a touch sore from the jolt, but luckily my Doctor gave me a few scripts to dull the swelling and inevitable pain tomorrow. Ackkkk! maybe tomorrow will be better.:sigh: Pic1[^] Pic2[^] Damnit!! The Pittsburgh Steelers better kick-ass tonight!
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Wouchies!! Like everyone else, my sympathies. And rest assured, my Honda freakof a friend mourns your loss. Had a similar experience about 3.5 years ago. Was living in Florida for a few years, luckily most people know how to drive in rain there, actually I learned how while there. Was headed west thru downtown Gainesville about 9PM and came to an intersection where the light turned green about 5 sec before. My buddy in the passenger side made some kind of exclamation and I saw headlights streaking from the north. I smashed my little Prizm into an Explorer headed south at about 60mph. The collision flipped my in a 180 and I stayed in the intersection. The crazy driver did a 270 and ended up facing west on the sidewalk, all the tires were sucked into/off of the wheels, depending on the side. Good thing I wasn't going 5mph faster or he would've hit me and my buddy would've had the impact. Also, if I was going 5mph slower I would have missed him but he would've ran over a motorcycle going the other way. Surprisingly enough the worst injury I had was the airbag getting my legs nice and toasty before I could get out. Like your case, I'm not sure the driver was licensed and he was borrowing his friend's Explorer. That got the cops all excited. That and his explanation that the light had "just turned green and I was trying to catch it." Speed limit of 35 and he guns it to 60 to catch a light, go figure. I've decided there are three types of drivers: good ones, bad ones, and dangerous ones. Good drivers are, well, good. The bad ones don't check their blind spots, never use turn signals, freak out when driving in inclement weather, you know, all that annoying stuff. Dangerous drivers are actually very good in terms of driving skill, they just drive too fast, too aggressive, all that. The only reason they aren't dead is because they are such good drivers. Just curious from the photos, looks like some cars were in front of you. How many total were involved? And how in the world does an unlicensed person have auto insurance? Don't all companies require proof of that to sell policies? The question "Do computers think?" is the same as "Can submarines swim?" DragonFire Software Jeryth
