Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:25:48 -0700
Reply-To: developtrust <developtrust@COX.NET>
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From: developtrust <developtrust@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Parking lot encounter
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You are being way too trusting. She is at fault for darting past. YOU should
make a claim. It is a matter of education, not fair play. If you let it
slide she will only learn to abuse things again.
Just my .02 cents.
William
Subject: Parking lot encounter
> This past Saturday I was at a grocery store and had a slight encounter
> with a Hispanic lady in a Nissan Sentra.
> When I was backing out she tried to bullet past me and she caught my
> drivers side bumper and end cap with her bumper.
> We stopped up traffic real good while I penciled in all of my information
> and showed her my insurance card and drivers license so she could compare
> them to the information I had given her.
> She then refused to give me any information at all on her insurance,
> drivers license etc.
> The damages were very minor to my Westy and her vehicle showed no signs
> of bumper damage, although it had totally crushed the internal Styrofoam
> or plastic structure below the urethane bumper covering. (I checked by
> pressing the bumper in, while she wasn't looking, and it depressed in and
> popped out looking OK).
> I insisted that she give me her insurance information and I became so
> insistent that she called for the police.
> The officer was mucho put out that he had been called to such a minor
> event.
> He took all of her information down on a tipple accident form and handed
> the whole set of originals and copies to me. He gave her a good scolding
> for refusing to provide the information that is required by law in Texas.
> Since she has three vehicles on her insurance policy this little accident
> will (if she reports it) cost her an extra $500.00 per year in premiums
> for three years.
> As for me, I'm going to hammer out my bumper and install a new end cap.
> No big deal.
> However If she reports it and claims any bodily injury (Flames A Coming)
> as most Hispanics do I can develop the same bodily injury symptoms myself
> in less than twenty four hours. In addition I'll be getting a new $500.00
> bumper and $260.00 labor to have it installed.
> Who was at fault?
> Both of us.
> Me for not watching better and her for trying to bullet past a car
> backing up.
>
> Stan Wilder
> 1983 Westfalia Air Cooled
>
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