Well i was on my way to blockbuster to pick up some movie.. then my girl called me to pick up from work.. i turned around since i wasn't really that far.. Then i was going in a neighborhood street and i was coming to a yield sign.. i slowed down to about 10 mph and i went because i didn't see any cars in the road.. but when i got to about the middle of the intersection.. there it was.. a f**kin 94 ford taurus.. i ran out the car to make sure the other person was okay but i wanted to slap them at the same time.. i made sure she was okay and then looked at my car... oh boy...

it nailed me in the back passenger door, my tire and my bumper was hanging off in the middle of the street.. i spun around about 210 degrees.. my side airbags came out.. when i looked at the tire.. it looked like the tire was bent about 20 degrees inward from the top.. the back passenger door was caved in so i couldn't even open the front door to get out all of my stuff..

when they filed the police report.. of course.. since im 17 years old and im a teenager, it is my fault.. i was trying to explain the cop that it couldn't have been all of my fault because she had to have been going pretty fast to push a maxima that weighs like 3500 lbs around 210 degrees.. of course the cop didn't listen to me and gave me a ticket for: failure to yield..

i don't know what i want to do with the car anymore.. through my eyes.. i think it is around 8000-10000 worth of damage.. my insurance is going to go through the damn roof.. i don't know.. i was thinking of selling the car after it is fixed..

this month has been the sh*ttest days of my life..

 

You can fight it.. fight it all in fact, thats what lawyers are for.

If it truly wasnt your fault, fight - because it will be expensive.

Find out if your state considers speeding giving up the right of way. I doubt it, a long shot.

 

dude....your car will never be the same.

when a car bents your wheel inward or outward, the whole body gets scrwed and its unfixible a 100%

maybe when'll you drive 80 or so on the highway, you'll feel vibrations

anyways....go to court man, fight it, do w/e it takes man

dont get scrwed by those stupid cops

 

He had a yeild sign...and didn't yeild. Pretty much open and closed case. If her speed limit was as low as 35mph, I think that's sufficient to spin his car around, so I doubt she was even speeding.

It's not his "fault"...he just didn't see her coming. The only thing you might get her on is:
1) Bad intersection, sue the city
2) She made an illegal lane change
3) She was drunk

He didn't get a ticket just because he was 17.

 

I wasnt making a judgement for or against. Has to be a pretty nasty impact for airbag, especially traveling in roughly the same direction. My point was that in some places you can challenge a yield if there was excessive speed involved. And proving it wont be easy..

 

yeh you better off selling it and buy a new car with the money u get for it because it will never driver the same. But try a fight the ticket so your insurance will not hit u that hard. sorry for your lost man...

 

i don't think im going to get the ticket because my parents know the person that hit me.. so the only thing is that i need to pay for the damage to her car and mine.. thats the only thing that sucks..

but yea.. i think im going to fix up the car and then probably sell it..

 

And neither was I. From his story, the fact that the airbags deployed sounds perfectly reasonable. I see no reason why anyone woul even think the other person was speeding...of course the person who was in the collison is going to be like "well, I didn't see them, so they must of come up fast..." etc etc. We've all been there....we've all had close calls. Everything that happened sounds like a perfectly normal day with a perfectly normal driving situation. There's no point in even discussing "excessive speed" since you can't even begin to fathom a reason to even think that would be an issue.

Here's what sucks: The dumbass lady who was driving the tarus should have seen the maxima not slowing down for the yeild and prepared accordingly. I mean, come one, how many of us have been cut off? That's basically what this is about. She could have covered her brake or prepared to swerve when she saw the max coming to the yeild (I'm assuming it's a merge type yeild...that's what most are...and the max driving said he was going 15mph, so it must have been pretty "safe")

However, due to the crappy law, she is not resposible for being an "alert" driver and thus our friend is going to take the blame for not "yeilding".....regardless of how old he is.

 

I know it's sad, but that sounds about right. I feel for you basically having a ruined car now. I was only in a minor accident that damaged my rear bumper and that made me really mad. Also, the fact that it was a hit and run kinda helped my anger grow. Good luck with what ever the outcome is.

 

yea.. i see what all you guyz are saying.. well i think when i get the car back.. i am going to sell it for sure.. and another sad thing is that it may not be another maxima because i really don't have enough money to buy another.. i don't know.. maybe if i find used maxima.. i might buy it..

another good news is that my insurance won't go up that much because my accident record has been clean and my driving record isn't that bad..

thank you to all who posted and responded.. it did help..

 

Sadly there is nothing that can be done about this for two reasons. One, the point of impact was the back left of his car and two, because of the yield sign and the statement I made in point one it looks like he cut her off. This is basically the same as running a stop sign. If you had already level out and was in the lane and she hit you straight on in the back then you can call tailgating. But it doesn't hurt to try, so if you are willing to fight it good luck and sorry for the lost.

 

First off Le1717y, I hope your parents hugged and cried over you and told how glad they were that you were alive.

I ran a yield sign as a 17 year old and got T-boned by a school bus. Completely my fault, for whatever reason I just wasn't paying attention. Luckily, I was in a '66 Ford van that nobody cared too much about.



As for you, you are alive and uninjured. Not too further the issue, but what if the lady had been doing an insane speed and you were now in a wheelchair or something?

I knew a kid who was one of the smartest guys people knew. One day he rolled his car from racing and then became essentially a walking vegetable. Extremely sad for all involved.

All I'm saying is, yeah you made a mistake--big deal. We all have. We've all not seen the other vehicle, maybe in our blindspot, maybe not paying attention just once. Some of us are lucky to just be alive and not hurt.

You're one of them. I know this doesn't help the loss of you beautiful car, but there will always be another beautiful car, no matter how obsessed some of are with our cars.

There will not always be another you. When you're 85 years old, if you can look back to when you were 17 and say this was the worst day of your life, then you've had a pretty damn good life, friend.

Take care.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by cedarpark
First off Le1717y, I hope your parents hugged and cried over you and told how glad they were that you were alive.

I ran a yield sign as a 17 year old and got T-boned by a school bus. Completely my fault, for whatever reason I just wasn't paying attention. Luckily, I was in a '66 Ford van that nobody cared too much about.



As for you, you are alive and uninjured. Not too further the issue, but what if the lady had been doing an insane speed and you were now in a wheelchair or something?

I knew a kid who was one of the smartest guys people knew. One day he rolled his car from racing and then became essentially a walking vegetable. Extremely sad for all involved.

All I'm saying is, yeah you made a mistake--big deal. We all have. We've all not seen the other vehicle, maybe in our blindspot, maybe not paying attention just once. Some of us are lucky to just be alive and not hurt.

You're one of them. I know this doesn't help the loss of you beautiful car, but there will always be another beautiful car, no matter how obsessed some of are with our cars.

There will not always be another you. When you're 85 years old, if you can look back to when you were 17 and say this was the worst day of your life, then you've had a pretty damn good life, friend.

Take care. [/QUOTE}

Thanks for helping me look at it a differnt way.. i really did look at it that it was just a car and i thanked god that i wasn't hurt or anything.. but my car is lost.. my first baby is now gone.. i guess i could use this as a learning experience to be a more cautious driver..

there is some good news that i highly doubt that i will get the ticket now because the lady said that she wouldn't show up to court so that means that i won't get the ticket unless the cop comes and saids something.. so only i really need to do is pay for her car and mine..