See....two weeks back, BIG Foot was making a U-turn at a stop light with an arrow. When the light turned green, he turned- but someone else chose the exact same time to make a right turn- on a red light....and hit him...or they both hit....or whatever...but the bottom line is his truck is damaged and it needs to be fixed.
He called home from the scene, because he is 1,357 miles from home, we couldn't just drive over and check it out. But when the Captain heard the woman who hit him say that his insurance would fix her car, the Captain told BIG Foot to call the police to write accident report.
Later, I asked BIG Foot how old the woman was...he said, "Like 90."
Right...I was thinking she must be my age...kids always think people are much older than they are...BUT he was pretty darn close...she was 87...AND SHE WAS NOT WRONG FOR HEAVEN'S SAKES HE TURNED INTO HER LANE!!!! THAT'S HER STORY ANDSHE'SSTICKINGTOIT!!!!!! AND HER DAUGHTER IS AN ATTORNEY AND blahblahblah WHY DID HE TURN INTO HER LANE!!
Regardless that she had a red light and regardless that this intersection allows a U-turn, and regardless that it is next to impossible to make a U-turn in a truck and stay in the closest lane to the divider...ITISNOTHERFAULT!!!
SO the policeman came took one look and after listening to her, he wrote her a ticket.
Now BIG Foot has taken his truck in for the estimate and it is set for repairs....
BUT
the woman has not talked to her insurance company. They cannot act until she does so. So our insurance company does not even know if she is insured...and in the meantime, we need to pay the $500 deductible...and then WAIT....until this woman speaks to them. According to our insurance company, she has 40 days to do so...and by that time BIG Foot will be home for summer...and if she decides to fight it all, he will have to go ALLTHEWAYBACK to CO to appear.
Sometimes you just have to admit you made a mistake...and suck it up....we all have had to at one time or another...if she would have just admitted the mistake, she could have paid the $859 to fix the truck, not gone through insurance....AND SHE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD A TICKET! A lesson to be learned before you're 90 I guess!
...so there goes $500...
*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*ADMIT YOU ARE WRONG WHEN YOU ARE*
4 comments:
Argh! What a pain. THe insurance co should just bill her for!
I'm just so glad he wasn't hurt.
But, yeah...what a pain to have to deal with!!
What a pain in the butt.
I can't believe that you have to WAIT for her to call her insurance co. It seems they should be notified asap. Right??? Crazy.
Glad he is ok too!
Did she share her insurance info with Big Foot? Can't he contact her insurance?
Didn't the police make her show it?
UGH!!
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