Two days ago the car I was driving was hit by another car that blew through a stop sign without slowing down. I’m not hurt, but the passenger side car door was crunched in, and my car remains driveable.
I stopped, the other driver stopped. I have no cell phone, so I asked if he did so the police could be called. He said “no, no phone” with a Spanish accent. I didn’t want to leave the scene, and was wondering what to do, when a guy who witnessed the collision came over and made a call to the police.
Before they arrived I observed the other driver talking on a cell phone! A woman showed up, apparently the owner of the vehicle that hit me. She asked if the police had been called, I said they had. She didn’t ask “are you ok?” or anything like that. I am fine, though, just shook up.
When the cops began questioning him the driver dude couldn’t speak English, had no form of ID, no driver’s license, and the insurance card was for the vehicle owner. I gave a written statement, the witness did too( and it supported me!). Don’t know what DD wrote as he couldn’t write in English it seems. DD was taken to the jail, in cuffs(Yay!) not because of the accident but because the dumb idiot couldn’t prove that the name he was giving(which I don’t know) was his real name.
Of course the vehicle owner has not reported the accident yet, but I did, to the company she supposedly is insured with. And they’ve called me back and unbent so far as to admit she is a policy holder with them. And how they’ve tried to contact her but have had no response.
My money is on the assumption that DD is illegal as hell. It would have been really cool is they had to keep him overnight or something fun like that. I just can’t stand people who won’t take responsibility for their actions.
Okay, take a deep breath, slow and easy, get your heart rate down. But still, grrrrrrrrr.
