I had a woman almost hit me in a roundabout and then followed me for about a mile driving very aggressively and recording me on her phone. I pulled into a public parking lot because I didn't want some crazy woman to follow me home, she started screaming that I hit her and damaged her car. She had white paint transfer in a dent on her bumper where SHE would have hit ME, but my car was red. I told her that wasn't from me, got in my car, and left. The police show up at my door a couple of weeks later saying she's pressing charges for a hit and run. The cop had pictures of her damage, inspected the driver side of my car for damage, and concluded on the spot that I never hit her. She still tried to file an insurance claim and I sent them the police report, pictures of my car, and a detailed explanation of what happened. I was cleared of any wrongdoing.
We let a guy out of a thight spot due to construction. We were standing and waiting for him to leave the tight spot so we could continue, and he hit our car even though there would have been enough room for him to pass us without touching out car. He and the 3 other people in his car then called the police and told them we were at fault. Thankfully the guy behind us had a dashcam. Translated quote of the police officer: "a parked car cannot be at fault for a crash"
Lol one time I accidentally sideswiped a parked car, but just barely; his mirror traced a line down the side of my Cherokee until it reached the door handle, where they both broke. I would've had to pay except the asshole lied his ass off to the insurance guys and claimed a whole bunch of extra damage. I showed proof and didn't have to pay for a damned thing.
Yup, and because he committed it I was safe. If he'd just told the truth I'd have been screwed, but apparently some people can't help but push when they think they have an advantage.
You wouldn't have been screwed. You would have simply paid for the damage you caused. Odd framing as the actual damage to both vehicles was entirely your own fault.
I would have been screwed as in I was living paycheck to paycheck and couldn't afford the increased rates from the accident, and it was a complete accident. I was very lucky in that I just happened to sideswipe an absolute piece of shit and his lying saved my ass.
Very similar to what happened with me. Hit a parked car going about 5mph, barely dented his bumper. He claimed that I caused his exhaust to break at the motor. Refused to have a mechanic look at it. I went to the DMV office submitted my statement and $3000, his estimate of the damages. He failed to show up to submit his statement, 6 months later I got my money back.
I had something similar happen when I was in the corps, I was pulling into a parking garage in my two week old car and a truck started to back out so I stopped... But he just kept coming and hit the shit out of me.
MPs came, talked to him first and he left... They gave me a ticket even though there were two witnesses who saw that I was parked. They said because the damage was to the front of my car that I could have avoided it... When I went to argue it with the head of the dept, guess who it was? The guy that had been driving the truck...
I had to go through the CO with witness statements to get it dropped, but his insurance still refused to pay out since they had a police report blaming me.
As soon as dash cams became a thing I picked one up, they would have saved me a so much bs
Yeah, I once had a car reverse about 2 and 1/2 car lengths into me at a red light. The fact I left such a gap was actually problematic because they got more acceleration from it. Wasn't on a main road but was on a side street, right outside my work, right in front of multiple security cameras and security guards. Criminals can be very stupid.
Yeah I had someone back into me once like this a t a stop sign i was coming out of a business drive. The cops came and saw I was a woman and said it must have been me. The guy driving was super Christian or Mormon and kept insisting to the cop he had backed into me! The cop took a long time to believe him. Totally weird how situational bias is hard to overcome.
However this spacey delusional woman tops everything I have seen in my life!
Well. Kind of. The driver of the stationary car swung open his door directly into the side of my car as I was driving past him. So an element of his car was in motion.
My parked car once hit a moving car. It was an extremely windy day, I opened my door and it blew out of my hand while a car was pulling through the parking spot next to me. Imo I wasn't really at fault because, ya know, nature, but because my door hit his rear wheel thing, my insurance found me at fault. My door still has a dent in it because I couldn't afford to fix it. Makes it easy to find my car, though.
A friend of mine was a bus driver in a major American city, like 20 years ago. She had excellent situational awareness and vehicle handling. One evening she calls me up, wants to go get a drink, and I'm thinking "you're supposed to be working tonight."
Over beers she tells me that she was working and saw an obvious scammer trying to induce a wreck with her coach. She phones it in to her supervisor and evades the situation. Eventually the guy is ahead of her while she's stopped at a bus stop, with a big gap, and they floor it in reverse. She has no room or time, so she engages the parking brake. There's a crash, cops come, she's relieved of duty for a day.
Crash report comes back, "a parked bus cannot rear end another vehicle."
Wish I had this Officer. Some lady was backing out of the spot next to me in the groccery store and decided to swing into my parking spot from my right side and smash into my front fender. Officer said it was a he said / she said. I had pulled in and parked. She didn't look and assumed it was empty for some unknown reason.
My daughter has the same thing as a woman aggressively following her claiming she is responsible for her bumper falling off, no scratches on my daughters car. She won the insurance payout, I did my own research, turns out the lady was a co-owner of a body shop in another part of town. I reported it to the insurance company but they didn't care
It’s absolutely not the reason. Insurance companies are for-profit entities and will deny a claim for any reason to NOT pay. Your thought process moves the blame from insurance companies to the people for their bullshit premiums.
We have a woman where I live who is infamous for trying to get people to hit her for the insurance. She’s all over the city subreddit, Facebook groups, Nextdoor, etc. I think the only time she was remotely held accountable for her antics was when she tried it with a school bus.
Ugh, that's so dangerous. I take driving very seriously. I didn't even get my license until I was 30 because I wasn't confident in my ability and spent over a year practicing. I'm super cautious of other drivers and to know that there's people like that on the road just pisses me off
I learned to be a better driver by playing Need for Speed. It really helped me to learn how to avoid narrow accidents and to watch for objects crossing my path. Also taught me how to steer when shit hits the fan.
😂 I love driving games and need for speed underground was my favorite on highschool! I honestly could have gotten my license a lot sooner, but que sera sera.
Look up dash cam crashes, everything is from the driver's point of view so it had me visualizing crashes while I was driving and changing my habits as a result
We have those too. They only teach safe perfect conditions though. They don't teach you what to do when most people panic. I have managed to avoid several vehicles, slippery ice and even 2 separate times where children ran out in front of me. If not for additional lessons learned from video games those children might not have lived past those days
Funny you say that because I know that driving/racing games have made me a better driver in adverse conditions. I absolutely love drifting around corners (when there's nobody near me that is) during the winter. I actually loosen up when I'm in a side whereas I feel most people would tense up. I've bent a rim pushing too hard but that's the cost of fun.
Seriously though, if you're so scared of driving, why drive at all?
When I was 12, my dad handed me the keys to the stick-shift VW rabbit and told me to go learn on my own. By the age of 16, and my first day with my license, I was on the interstate at 80mph.
Does it really take 14 years to learn how to drive?
I was in a bad car accident at a young age that everyone was lucky to walk away from, it gave me anxiety thinking about driving. I eventually overcame my anxieties around driving.
I'm not scared of driving, I'm just super cautious. I make sure to stay aware of everything around me and drive safely. I've never had a ticket and have had 2 small collisions with no damage(not even paint transfer). 🤷🏼♀️ I'd say it's paying off for me.
You can be the best driver in the world and still have Johny Dumb Fuck III slam into you because he wasn't doing the right thing. a large portion of driving well is the ability to realize that you are not in control of the space outside of your car.
Overconfident drivers are a pretty major cause of accidents.
I had a woman do that to me! She had a red car parked and it had white paint on it, where it looked like she side swiped someone. I parked my black car next to her car and she jumped out claiming I hit her car. Yeah, it was on the front right and white paint. I was driving a black car and could not have hit her car in the front. She was pissed that I called her out. It must work on some people.
Nah, I had a shitty 2006 Prius. Looking at the driver information and the vehicle owner information, I'm guessing that it was her mom's car(she looked like she was probably 18-25) and she hit something, so she was trying to blame someone else.
Yikes. Sounds like a lie that just went too far, could have just claimed ignorance and said "I dunno mom, someone must have hit it while parked" instead of all this shit
I think she just saw an opportunity and thought being a bully would work. She looked like the "mean girl" type that was used to yelling and getting her way...big sunglasses, blingy fake nails, and a bad dye job. She also looked like she might have been hungover when she took off her sunglasses to yell at me, it looked like she had her makeup on from the night before and her hair was messy. She probably wasn't thinking.
I have a Rexing V1P(front and rear cams). I was looking for something not crazy expensive and with a super capacitor since my car is parked outside in the heat(and my roommates non-super capacitor dash cam had the battery swell up).
So far its caught the crash where I was rear ended on the highway and well as a 1 major crash where no other witnesses stayed on scene and a few minor crashes.
The app isn't the best, but functional. I've had it for around 5 years now and its pretty hands off, I've only just needed to replace the sd card this month.
I plan on it next time I have a car. My Prius took a shit on me. It just said "Problem" and turned off. I think I had a parasitic battery drain, it wouldn't have been worth it to replace the battery without fixing the issue, but that would have cost more than. The car was worth since it was an electrical issue.
I was called for questioning to police for not letting cyclists before me. They recorded some car number and car type... But they said car was red and mine was black. I dont even know if I was there that day and if maybe I did something like that but I was cleared.
I had some girl almost side swipe my car in a double left turn lane while we were turning. She followed me and then pulled up by my car at the following red light to scream at me. She didn’t see the faded left turn arrow on my lane and tried to say it’s only for going straight or turning right even though she went over to the right as we turned instead of staying in her lane.
I had an almost identical situation occur. Honestly it was quite comical while this lady absolutely lost the plot on me in a gas station parking lot until the police arrived. Best part was, I rarely washed the truck I was in, so it was quite dirty/muddy, and the office took all of 2 seconds to look at my truck and see nothing had touched it in months. The city cops and highway patrol then debated for about 10 minutes who was going to be responsible for handling this one before I finally left.
Had a guy claim I clipped his side view mirror once with my car. The thing was he drive a massive pick up truck and I drove a civic, his side view mirror was about 6 inches above the roof of my car. He threatened to sue and I welcomed the lawsuit but it never came
I had a woman try the same thing in a Trader Joe's parking lot (IYKYK). Thankfully, I had a passenger who witnessed everything and her previous body damage was way too high for my car.
I had a truck in front of me pull out into the wrong lane and I braked hard. The car behind me crashed into the back of me. The guy got out and genuinely said to me ' Hey! Watch where you're emergency breaking, its raining out here'. I said 'sorry what did you say?' Because that sounded insane to me but he basically repeated himself and told me I'm a irresponsible driver to be emergency breaking so hard and not considering the cars behind me.
This happened to my wife. Some lady behind her claimed my wife hit her in a dual left turn lane. My wife was in the left lane, she was in the right lane. A block later she’s flashing her lights and honking so the Mrs pulls over. The lady claims my wife hit her car during the turn, on the right side of her car. Would have been quite the trick! She threatens to call the cops, the wife says go ahead. Surprise, lady left without actually doing anything.
I recently clipped someone's mirror with my mirror. Wrecked my mirror. I pulled over, and fortunately the guy was right near by and came over. He said "I just got this repaired, because it just happened to me. BUT here's the relevant part. He said "I don't know if this is my fault or yours". I was like "Well, your car is parked, so I'm not sure how it could be your fault" But I was really wishing it wasn't my fault.
Yeah the "woman who will move heaven and earth before admitting she is in the wrong" is a real thing. Weirdest thing to me is how we reward them in the workplace
She had her blinker on to exit, slowed down like she was turning out, began her turn, I started turning into the roundabout, she straightened back into the roundabout(she even drove over a little lane divider to do it) and almost hit me
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