Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:34:12 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Sad Bus
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Joe, glad to hear everyone is basically OK. Sad for the Van though. One
thing, no matter what......have the wifey go to the doctor and have her
back X-rayed. That is just for the record. it establishes a baseline
should problems appear later. I have been taught a hard lesson lately -
vicariously - but hard none the less. A buddy got slammed in the back
end. he was not going to see a doctor because of the espense, but his
lawyer who came by to check the car climbed his case about it. So he
went. The result .... a $20,000 settlement plus the value of the totaled
vehicle. Now that money came out of the insurance from the party that
hit him. And it turns out that there were soft tissue problems in the
guys back. Old problems aggravated by the force of the impact. Those
things came back to haunt him in the months after the accicent. He was
glad for the unexpected settlement.
A couple of points here. One, protect yourself and your family
financially. Carry that insurance. Second, protect your family. Have
everyone in an accident examined by a doctor. Let him be the judge -
coupled your your input - as to whether something is amiss or not.
Establish the basline by the medical exam. Then if nothing ensues at a
later day, no problem. But if problems develop, then you already have
the base line established. Very important.
I'm not saying sue everybody in sight, but position yourself and your
family well in the event such is needed. The longer you wait, the more
difficult it will become to pursue a settlement if it becomes necessary.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Joseph Fortino wrote:
>Thanks so much from everyone, wife and kids are doing great and that the best thing, I guess my wifes seat belt did lock and that saved her some but her back is sore. anyway hit by and out of state driver that was driving a rental
>car just my luck. All info is going threw. need to replace kids car seats per
>law in CA.
>
>Question has anyone been hit from the back really hard and what type of damage
>did it cause the motor shakes now and the mounts look ok, but like I said it
>was a hard wack that the bumper took most of the hit but it pushed it into the
>body.
>
>Thanks
>Joe
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [mailto:machfive@excite.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2003 03:46 PM
>>To: fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET
>>Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
>>Subject: re: Sad Bus
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>>Glad that you and your family are okay. Sorry to hear about your van. Hopefully it can be fixed.
>>
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>>Mark Garcia
>>Alhambra, CA
>>1987 Vanagon Westfalia (for going slow)
>>2000 Passat 1.8T 5SPD(for going fast)
>>1981 Vespa P200E (for just going!)
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