Yep, my first accident. And it was all my fault.
There was a red light, i stopped with one car infront of me.
Sound of Ani Difranco “Out of Range” playing.
Light turns green, car in front of me pulls out.
I start moving too
They stop.
I break…break…breaaaaaaaaaaaaaak
bump
Well shit.
Flash forward to a couple minutes later “ohhhh my neck” says the man “i think i’m ok” says the woman driving the car
Well shit, says i.
Mondays can bite my skinney, white ass.
Upham
My husband did that 2 years ago. We were turning onto a highway and the car infront us pulls foreward to turn. He stops, we don’t. Bumped his back bumber bedingit a little. The guys parks his car in the gas station on the corner, walks over to the pay phone and calls 911. We had ambulances and fire trucks come screaming up, just to give my honey a ticket. Pissed me off.
At least when I made a three car pile up on Interstate 4 the two guys I hit didn’t call the cops and didn’t whine about there damn necks. For god sake, they actually had a reason to complain. I hit them at 35 mph.
Welcom to Monday hell. Both accidents were on a monday.
I’ve gotten rear-ended 3 times. Damn black car. Twice it was get out, look at the bumper, say “no damage”, and drive away. The other time they did $4500 damage and they didn’t even hit my car (they hit the car in back of me!). I go for extremes.
Sorry, I just scared my cats laughing at the title…though you should know.
<chuckling…rear-ended…not fun…hehehe>
I think i hit these people going all of… oh, lets go wild and say 2km/h considering i was driving our 1987 GMC Jimmy which my brother wrote off on Christmas day this year (this is one tough friggin truck people, cause we have yet to get it fixed up from the last one).
Anyway, we’re not talking about a vehicle that’s going to be going from 0 to 60 it 2 seconds. Actually got us to get Jimi (we refer to him as Jimi, what can i say, we’ve bonded) up to 60 from a dead stop we’ve pretty well got to have a couple people puching, down hill, all out.
And yet… “AWWWWW MY NECK MY NECK”… with absolutly NO damage to the front of my truck “AWWWWWWW MY NECK MY NECK!!” with a faint smudge of red paint on their some-what pushed in back bumper “I felt something snap!” although he jumped out of the car like a bat out of hell… man…
Anyway, that’s my little tirade for the moment (give me a couple more hours to seethe at the randomness of the accident, the universe in general, and this rat bastard’s poor poor neck…)
It could be worse. You could have been the guy to rear end my parents. Bringing my newborn baby sister home from the hospital. My parents were a little ticked at that one. Everytime I hear about a rear-end accident I think of that one. It was memorable.
I hope everything turns out okay for you!
Good thing no one was really hurt. I was about 3 seconds from having a dodge pickup truck slide into a car I was in Sunday night. We were going to steak n shake and someone thought they would rush through a 4 lane highway and make it on the other side with no problems. Well after they hit the first car the asshole smashed a second car which then came flying at the car I was in. Had we left about 3 seconds earlier we would have gotten the worst of that accident because the truck would have rolled onto our car smashing it. I’ve never been so happy about not being on time.
This exact same thing happened to my wife about 6 months ago. NO damage to either car. The guy jumps out of his car to look at the bumpers. (this part is my opinion) He sees my wife is Asian and starts grabbing his neck. /end opinion/ Calls 911 on his cell phone.
The police didn’t write my wife a ticket since there was NO damage.
The ambulance shows up, checks him out, and leaves cause he’s not hurt.
He files a claim with his insurance for having to see a chiropractor (sp?) 3 times a week and missing work. Last I heard, my insurance co. and his insurance were trying to deny his claim. I hope he gets stiffed with the chiropractor bills.
I’ve rear-ended a woman or two in my day.
I’m still mad at that bitch for braking! :mad:
Hey just be glad it didn’t happen over here in the United Arab Emirates. Here you get to sit in jail until all injured parties are released from the hospital. In my case just over 3 hrs. It happened on a Saturday (same as a Monday in the states) I’m thinking it’s not a good idea to drive on Mondays.
My dear little moped has been through two accidents in two years…
See: Here you can get a moped at age 16 but you are only allowed to go 40 km/h (snail… snail…)
So usually everybody goes to a garage and asks to make the moped “slightly” faster…
So some mad bitch had put a string across the street to get the cows from the farmhouse to the field (mooo!) - it was rainy and I didnt see the string early enough… next thing I know is “I can fly! I can fly!” I am glad the moped didnt hit me, cause I was sliding on my backpack (thank you eastpak for real quality!) for at least 100 meters… and that at only round 55 km/h…
Damn was I lucky… plus her injurance had to pay 
The eastpak was fine…
dodgy
who has been flying just like Superman for a second or two…
just wanted to say that the subject/title made me laugh quite hard. thanks.
oh, and good luck with the obviously anal “owe, my neck” guy.
Aw, man…best of luck to you with these (IMHO very obvious) fakers. I was the other half of an accident like this a few months ago - I was stopped at a flashing red light, and a woman behind me wasn’t paying attention and blitzed the back of my car at about 25 miles an hour.
Yeah, I honestly did have some neck pain from that one, and wasn’t just being a jerkoff seeing dollar signs. BUT, it didn’t show up till several hours later, after all the adrenaline had worn off. For these people to be leaping out of the car going “my neck! my precious, precious neck!” seconds after a minor accident sounds dubious, to say the least.
Of course, at least they weren’t like the guy I hit when I was sixteen…acted perfectly fine until the firefighters showed up, at which point he “fainted” and collapsed on the ground. I went over to ask if he was all right, and a paramedic told me point blank, “oh, he’s just faking it.” Didn’t stop the bastard from trying to sue me anyway. :mad:
Thanks y’all. I had a call from the woman who was driving the car this morning, she seems very decent and doesn’t seem to be of quite the same mind set as Neckboy (as my family has taken to calling him).
Anyway, how things are gonna go moneywise, i don’t know, cause i have none… we’ll see
Thank you all for the support though
As a member of management for an automotive insurance company, I can tell you what may happen. This is only my personal opinion and should not be taken as fact in any means.
Assuming that you have liability insurance, they’ll go after your insurance company. Your insurance should cover the defense of this case. If Neckboy should win, he can get up to your insurance “Limits.” Depending on what your state minimums are, this can be $20k - $100K. If he gets awarded more than your limits, he can come after you. Not likely, considering your monetary situation.
Now, I work in TX and all my insurance knowledge pertains to the US. I don’t know how it will work in Canada. And what I’ve said about the situation is only speculation.
Just my $0.02.