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I hit teenaged girl who just had gotten her license and her sister was the passenger.
She blew a stopsign on the 4 lane I was on and I never saw her.
I hit her square in the passenger doors and knockwd her around into another car.
The last I saw of the passenger, she was unresponsive and being taken away in an ambulance. Her father got to the scene and it was all the police could do to keep him off of me.
The driver got tickets for disregarding a stopsign and failure to yield.
I don't care about my injuries and I feel terrible for the injured passenger it wasn't my fault and it wasn't her fault.
It's her sister's for blowing the stop sign at rush hour.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
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That sucks pariah. Sorry to hear this. Hope everyone is ok. I just got in a HUGE one about 3 months ago. You will walk around in a daze for a while. It will slowly go away.
I'm glad you are ok. Sounds like theres nothing you could have done.
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That's why my D17's not allowed to ride in a car with a teenage driver, and why I taught her that, when she sees a teenage driver, to back away and keep a safe distance.
Sorry about your accident. Are you ok?
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How horrible! Are you alright? What a shame for that young driver and her sister.
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Ugh Pariah!! I'm so sorry!!! How are you feeling? What are your injuries? I also hope both sisters are going to be alright. Please keep us posted.
You and the girls are in my prayers. This is one reason I am not encouraging my 17S to get his license. He's not mature enough for the HUGE responsibility of driving a vehicle.
Feel free to email me if you'd like.
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i don't understand why their father was coming after you... didn't the police tell them that his daughter blew a stop sign and that there was nothing you could do to avoid the accident?
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May God bless you and the family. I'm sure you are concerned for them, and can understand how a father could lash out, without comprehending the full situation.
Uggh. Certainly not what you needed was it.
I'm having a bad week too, and it feels like a wreck.
Give us an update on the girl if you can, because it will likely make the papers.
It was a marriage that never really started.
H: Conflict Avoider, NPD No communication skills (Confirmed by MC) Me: Enabler
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I am sorry that happened to you.
Will say a prayer for you, the girls and their father.
Take care.
I do not blame the xwh for his affairs and abandoning our marriage. He fulfills 90% of the Cleckley Criteria
I forgive him for his insanity and I forgive myself for being gullible to his charms.
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Well, they have retained an attorney and are not cooperating with the insurance company.
It's clearly her fault and she is claiming she didn't see me when she looked me dead in the eyes before she floored it.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
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ahhh my heart is with you as are my prayers!!
Take care!!
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Was it a four way stop, or were you on a highway that she entered? If she was entering a highway and you did not have a stop as well, then she is clearly at fault.
I feel badly for you - it must be hard thinking that you may have hurt someone and then, wow how scary and angering is it to think they'll try to sue you?
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I was on a road with two lanes and a center turning lane about 1/4 mile from a stop light.
She was in a shopping complex and had a stop sign at her exit.
She came to the stopsign, tapped her brakes and floored it.
I was going toward the light and she tried to cross from one shopping complex to the other and I caught her in the passenger side doors, we both spun 90 degrees and her driver's side doors struck a minivan at the other stop sign square in the front.
The accident report says I have no contributing factors to the accident and she had failure to yield to her contributing factors.
I looked up her address and it seems they are afraid I'm gonna sue them. They have a HUGE house on about 40 acres with a pool and a multi car garage.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
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I hope you took pictures. Camera cell phones are a great resource in times like that. I'm sure there were other witnesses too (like the van driver). There's probably nothing you can do now. Just let your insurance company handle it. There's no point in worrying. You never said if you were hurt. Even without visible physical injuries, a wreck that did that much damage to the car probably caused you muscle strain. I had whiplash and never before that knew how horrible it felt, and long lasting. You mentioned what a big house they have. I'm always surprised at how quickly I can find things on the internet. I use www.zabasearch.com to look up addresses and ages. And zillow.com is my favorite to look at homes, and their values. In some areas, you can even get a 360 degree view of someone's home, as well as a current market estimate.
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I took pix with my cell phone.
They totaled my truck today and are going to make me an offer tomorrow.
I told the adjuster anything other than top retail dollar for it will be wasting both of our time as I paid top dollar for it less than 6 months ago.
These smaller trucks are appreciating in value daily.
The other party is still avoiding speaking with the insurance company, and probably going to let the attorney do it.
As for injuries, yeah I'm really sore, but my gunshot wound is screaming.
The doctor gave me oxycontin for the pain and it does stop it, but it totally incapacitates me.
I feel I am going to need an attorney and I'm most certainly not going to use my divorce attorney. He is as useless as a fish with a bicycle.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
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Hope you are feeling better! Have you heard how the passenger from the other car is doing?
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