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smarterthanu213:
...To be a compelete..well..you get my point.

I just thought I would share the following story with you ehellions out there..

My boyfriend was driving to school one day, and making a turn at a funny intersection. At the street he was turning onto, there was a stopsign, but he did not have a stop sign. He made the turn in his little compact car, and as he turned an enormous F150 slammed into the side of him. It crunched in the entire driver's side of the car from side mirror to gas tank. The mirror was knocked off and smashed into little bits, and the back door would barely open.

The police were called, etc. When the police came, the driver of the truck, a man who was about 50, claimed that boyfriend had sidesiped him. There was absolutely no physical way that that kind of damage could have been done to Boyfriend's car if he had sideswiped the truck. In addition, if he had sideswiped, there would have been marks/scratches on the truck. There were no marks on the truck at all. Boyfriend even had a witness, another student who had been behind him at the time.

The police officer looked at the truck and looked at the car, and then asked for Boyfriend's side of the story. He gave it to him. The police officer's body language, tone, etc, made it very clear that he was inclined to rule the accident against Boyfriend (he was 17 at the time). Finally the officer said "If neither one of you are going to tell me the truth, then I'm going to just leave."

And he did.

He refused to believe Boyfriend because he was 17 and TruckMan was in his 50's.

I think it's really sad when people are preprejudiced against teens because of their age.

And for the record, after examination of photos by 5 experts, the insurance companies did rule it against TruckMan. But still--who would slam into a poor kid like that and then try to make it sound like it was his fault, drawing on a prejudice against teenagers?

Lauren:
I would have been calling the police station and lodging a formal complaint against the officer. I would have gone as high as needed for that officer to be discplined.

As for the truck driver I don't think it was the fact he was a teenager it was the fact that he didn't want to pay for the damages.

I had something simillar happen to me. Sadly this did happen cause I was a woman. Guy hit me (cars taking off at traffic lights) which I thought was completly his fault. Once we pull over starts SCREAMING at me. Being 20 and scared out of my brain agree with him. He tells me we can do it privatly (should have been first warning signal, but again naive) and then asks about a husband or father to talk to (second warning signal) I planned to do all this privatly, but he started calling me and hassling me for the money. I call my dad at work in tears (I was afraid to answer my mobile by this point) My dad is just as soft as I am, and was willing to loan me the money but by this point I wanted to take it to my insurance company.

I rang the insurance company, cried to the woman there for about half an hour, told her I didn't know who was at fault but that I didn't want to go after him (I had third party and wanted it over. My car had a number of dents from a hail storm, so the damage didn't bother me) I just wanted it over. My dad rang the guy and told him it was going through insurance and to please stop calling me as he'd upset me greatly and in future to contact him (he claimed he didn't mean to upset me, but five messages in five hours, threatening to go to the police and my insurance company and yelled in most of the messages, did he seriously think it wasn't going to upset a 20 year old?)

I never paid it out, as I told my insurance company that I wasn't at fault. From talking to a guy at work (who was a former police officer) he had me describe the accident and assured me there was no way possible for me to be at fault (even looked at the damage) and said he'd write a report if it went further.

smarterthanu213:
No, the part that irks me is that TruckMan acted as though he could and would get away with it because he was older. He just had this vibe that was like, I'm gettting away with it because no one will believe a 17yr old

dietcokeofevil:
I was in an accident last year, where an older lady tried to merge into the lane I was already in.  She didn't want to do anything, but I insisted upon calling the police.  She seemed like a very nice lady, and we chatted while we waited for the police to arrive.   I made it pretty clear to her, that I would be reporting it to insurance, which I did.  The insurance co. called me back the next day to say they had talked to her and told her that she was being found at fault.  She told them that I had told her I had all kinds of speeding tickets and had been in many wrecks..  First of all, my insurance company would know if that were true, which it wasn't.  Second of all, I don't care how many wrecks a person has, if you are at fault for a wreck, then you are at fault.

Groundsgirl:
I am a terrible parallel park-er. I will be the first to admit it. I will circle blocks until I find a spot where I don't have to parallel park.

Well, I had to do it one day. I had a job interview and so I had to park. I attempted to pull into a space and ended up barely tapping the trailer hitch on the back of a F150 with my license plate. The driver leaps out and starts yelling at me for hitting his car. I apologize. I tell him that I need to find an alternate place to park my car as there was no way I would be able to park in this space. I tell him that I will be right back. I go and park on the next block and walk back to where the man was parked.

He is gone. The truck is gone. I wait for him for 10 minutes. He never comes back.

At this time, I had to go into my interview or else be late. I go in, have the interview, and then go back to my car.

When I got to my car, I find a police officer riffling in my glove box. On the word of this man, a police officer broke into my car to look for insurance paperwork!!! I explain to the officer what happened and that I was not fleeing the scene of an accident. I had to park my car somewhere as it was in the middle of a street! He didn't believe me.

But he did believe the man who told him that I was responsible for several large dents on his tailgate. Nevermind the fact that the bumper of my car was several feet BELOW the tailgate (I drive a Dodge Neon. NOT a large car by any means) and despite the fact that these dents had paint scrapped off and the metal underneath was rusty.

He still wrote the report.

I reported him to his superior for breaking into my car without cause. I also contacted my insurance to give them a heads up on the other driver in case that clown decided to attempt to get my insurance to pay out.

It was fraud, plain and simple. After my insurance company decided that there was no way my car could have caused that kind of damage (also seeing as the damage was old), the guy tried calling me a few times and yelling. Didn't work. He eventually gave up.

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