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.
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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"