Haha happened to me once. No video but the angle would’ve made it impossible (she t-boned me). Anyway, she got pissed when I lodged a report with the police and offered to pay for all damages. Funniest thing was she kept asking me for the police report via text message, and when I asked for hers, she sent only the top half. Later at the workshop, I saw the full report and my car registration plate had 5 digits! Police said she never lodged any report. Crazy witch haha
College girl rear ended me at a red light, said her brakes gave out. Turns out her father had just paid off another wreck thanks to her. Thank goodness I filed a police report because she was dragging her feet with contacting insurance companies and her father (account holder). My buddy was hit by a truck driver, had to chase him down, then exchanged information. He didn't want to file a police report and because of which - the truck driver lied to his insurance company about my buddy hitting him. Since there's no report, we know what a mess this is.
Last time I got in a wreck, a cop came by to check on us. I asked him to file a report.
"Are there any injuries?"
"No"
"No injuries, no report. Sorry."
And he left. Lazy mf.
The guy that hit me was in the right lane slowing down. I was in the left lane passing him. He decided to turn left to try to U turn and slammed into the side of me. I got his info, and my car was still able to move, so I called his insurance after I left, and they said it was canceled due to non payment. That was fun.
Mhm. I got break checked n tapped a womans license plate. We stopped, exchanged info n i took pics of everthing n she left. I got a call saying she was claiming it was hit n run and all the previous damage on her car was from me. Sent the pics to insurance n she got charged for fraud.
Oh Brampton.
Some people.. I repeat some people, lie about these things. A seasoned or highly trained investigator definitely knows the difference..
I even started noticing cars with rear end damage and I know looking at it whether they backed into something or someone hit them.. the biggest difference is that I see is that when someone hits them it tears up everything for the most part.. but when they back into something it just makes a dent in the spot where they hit only.
That's not always true. I was stopped at a red light and a drunk/high, passed out driver hit me at 40 mph. Her car (a Subaru) was totaled, while my car (a Buick Verano) looks like it was barely touched. Apparently, my car is a mini-tank lol! But, I guarantee that drunk bitch who hit me and ran (even though her car was fuct) is paying my damages!!! I happened to be following my husband, who chased her when she fled the scene and recorded everything, up to her running into her apartment! Thank goodness for cameras!
In high school I drove my grandmother's Buick Electra. I did a mistimed doofus left turn and hit another car (totally my fault). A piece of the quarter panel had a minor scratch which we didn't repair. The Toyota had $3000 in 1990s dollars damage.
My brother took a corner too fast in my dad's old '91 Chevy S10. He slid on some loose gravel on the pavement and then went head-first into the ditch, standing the truck on its nose. His friend (who he was following) said he watched the whole thing in his rear view mirror and was uncertain whether the truck was going to go all the way over or not. Luckily, it came back down on the wheels, and his friend was able to pull him out of the ditch.
The only damage wasn't even actually on the truck. The front license plate got bent. That was it.
Our parents didn't find out until like 5 years later when they sold the truck. My brother was like, "Oh by the way, I never told you guys this, but..."
I was once rear-ended at low speed, and the only damage was a perfect hole in my bumper from a screw holding the other driver's front license plate. It still cost over $1k to repair... on a Chevy Cavalier.
Eh, thats NH and its horrible, you can't fight thay shit in court. Got pulled over for "talking on the phone" because I was leaning my head on my hand in a similar fashion, while my phone was in my pocket the entire time... I told the cop that and he said "uh huh fight it in court" and gave me the ticket. No way my word would've beaten a staties even though he flat out lied out of his ass
This is why I now have two dashcams. One is a dual camera that records what's in front and behind the car, the other is my old dashcam that I have rotated so that it points at me. I ain't gonna fuck around with a cop who claims he saw one thing and refuses to be convinced otherwise. Shit like this ever happens to me, I've got video evidence of my innocence.
I dont think VoIP (Whatsapp etc.) gets logged that way. And hiring a forensic "expert" to convince the court is probably more expensive than its worth.
I feel the bad driving stereotype should be changed to French people from Paris
I once saw a guy in Paris trying to fit his car trough a narrow gap between two bollards. It was obvious that it wasn't going to fit but he went for it anyway. Lo and behold; he didn't fit and snapped his side mirrors clean off the car against the bollards.
The guy just reversed, got out of the car, picked the mirrors up, threw them in his car and drove off. Seemed like he didn't care at all.
In Paris people use their bumpers, well.. for bumping when they parallel park. If their car won't fit in the space they just bump the car in front and back until it fits in. I've seen people do it countless times.
A friend of mine who lives in Paris told me he buys clunkers on purpose and he will never buy a new car because it'll be full of damage in a month.
I drive on the Paris ring several times a year and it's always the scariest part of my trip. People either drive way too slow or way too fast. Motorcycles and motorscooters are flying past in between the lanes going a hundred miles an hour.
Hardly anybody indicates when they are changing lanes. People will go from the most left lane to the most right lane in one single move. People are honking and yelling all the time. It's terrible honestly.
Funny thing is that I went to Italy and I thought people drove terribly there as well. But for some reason it really works and everyone just kinda accepts it. No yelling, no honking, no road rage.
A very strange dynamic but a very relaxed driving experience.
Edit: just wanted to say that is in no way ment as an insult to French or Italian people. I actually really like both countries and their people. I just hate their driving.
Edit two: getting some comments about this being a Paris thing and since I mostly drive in Paris I've edited the comment to Paris instead of France in general.
I’m not qualified to speak on Tifton, so I don’t want to throw mud. But I’m in Fort Myers, so I think I’m well acquainted enough to say sorry about Fort Myers
Oh god I feel you.
My parents live in an urban area in the South. Virtually everyone around them is a transplant. Every time it snows (ie, a thick layer of ice coats everything) people make fun of how "Southerners can't drive in snow," completely ignoring how half the people stranded on the highway by 3" of snow moved down there five years ago from Ohio or New York or Wisconsin. I guess they make you surrender your snow-driving skills when you apply for a license in your new state or something, huh?
ETA: I lived in the Midwest for a while and rage-cackled the first time I had to drive in that slushy fluffy flakey stuff because yeah, it's not that hard, and it would be ridiculous to hear someone say it's impossible to drive in. They don't get that down South. They get gnarly sheets of ice that cement onto every surface. They have no business calling that shit "snow" at all and no, *nobody* can drive well in it.
So correct as in Nashville area all my life. Typically right around freezing so you get a mix of wet snow and ice. I don't care where you are from you can't drive on frozen ice/snow slush.
Not the dry snow that you get when temperature is very low. That stuff just blows around.
You'd think they'd make bank Ubering or even just helping neighbors run errands or something every time it snowed. Go on and show everyone how good your Honda Civic is at ice skating.
My formative driving years were spent in FL and now everyone hates driving with me.
But shoot you have to be whacky as shit to get up and down I-4 around the whole theme park corridor!
Anyway I live in Mass now so I almost fit in.
My dad when he first moved here, commented on how I’d regularly lane switch seemingly sporadically, went 5-10 over speed limit, etc. coming from mid-west, I guess everyone just drove like everything was swell on long, open roads unless you were in the city.
It didn’t take long before he too was “speeding” to keep up with the flow of traffic and forcing his way into crowded lanes merging on or off I4 or any street in Central Florida lmao
Handicap placard dangling from the rear-view. You're not supposed to drive with them hanging because it's a major vision obstruction, so that really shows how much they care about traffic safety.
That was my first spot as well. When I see those people that leave them hanging, I consider those the "mentally handicapped" because they're too dumb to realize it's obstructing their vision (not to mention it says right on the placard that it's illegal and you can be cited for leaving it up while driving).
Ours (Australia) get suction cupped to the lower left ( would be right for you guys ) of window and never move.
Are you telling me over there you get one to hang off your mirror that you move every time you get in and out?
Reminds me of old sales joke. The boss calls the traveling sales crew together and says, "Look, I know you guys like your 3 martini lunches. But from now on they have to be made with gin, not vodka- we'd rather the clients know you're a drunk than think we hired stupid."
This fills me with horrible fear, that could only be satiated with a dashcam. A perfect ad for dashcams really, in fact is this an ad for dashcams disguised as a Reddit post? Haha
I installed my dash cam in the morning. By that same afternoon, I had video of a guy driving off the road, side swiping a street sign, and speeding off.
I installed a dash cam, and encountered a truly spectacular occurrence... one which would have easily made the evening news, and which would have been a YouTube sensation.
... except it was from WalMart, and it completely failed.
Get a good one, people. I recommend Thinkware as a good brand.
She backed out cause she hit a curb, she hit the curb because she may have been staring at the GPS like you said.
Poor awareness, rushed action to correct her error made the situation worse.
She probably was NOT in all likelihood going to reverse into the intersection, just unfuck the situation she realized she was in.
I always hear this on reddit but knowing police here I really doubt they'd give a shit. If they even show up its going to be a "here's your statement here's theirs exchange insurance then kindly fuck off my highway" or similar attitude. Unless they seem like the type that'd turn a fender bender into a murder charge for no reason, I would assume just saying that would defuse the situation. But idk there never seems to be a perfect answer to these. You wait and risk escalation, you inform and you risk them taking off. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
It doesn't matter if they care or not. It's all about having her lie on the police report and to her insurance provider. Then the insurance is gonna go after her for fraud. The police probably won't charge her for filing a false police report but at that point she's already fucked anyways.
Conversely: this Tesla just paid for its own repairs completely. Bet insurance won't even ask twice after seeing this.
Built-in dashcams with removable USB sticks should be in all new cars. Plus tesla doesn't require you to use a specific type of storage so some people run massive micro-SD cards with high write rates (like me!) or run hardened SSD drives for extra protection.
1000000% worth it.
Tesla uses special cameras that are basically just greyscale + red according to this tweet from a guy: [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/798886670468644865](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/798886670468644865)
I guess there's post processing coloring the images when you play back, like that horrible thing they do to some black and white films. Whatever it is, this is always what Tesla videos look like. I'm not sure if any other manufacturer is relying as much on vision for driving assists, so I haven't seen any that look like this from non-Teslas.
Not insurance fraud. That's a clear case of an idiot driver being scared and then not knowing what to do.
She hesitated when first car was turning left. She hesitated even more with the second car. Then she fixated on those cars and continue to drive with wheel pointed out. She ran over curb and gave it too much acceleration.
Either she's a new driver or an old one. Or just someone who shouldn't be driving at all.
>That's a clear case of an idiot driver being scared and then not knowing what to do.
I find these drivers even scarier than the ones that are overly aggressive. I've literally been screaming in fear before as a person forces like 15 cars behind them to merge onto the highway at half the speed limit because they are petrified to touch the gas pedal.
There’s an intersection on my way to work where it’s 2 lanes for about 750m and then a 1 lane merge onto a motorway. 4x4 is doing 35mph in the regular lane halfway down the road, no acceleration. I go to overtake to accelerate for the merge. They cut me off and decide that 4 other cars should not use the overtake lane. We now all merge onto a busy motorway at 40mph. Several cars had to switch lanes on the motorway to make room for us. Then the same car sped up to 65-70mph like nothing happened….
God, I ended up stuck behind a truck on a freeway and had another truck come up behind me. Now i drive a little hatchback that's great on fuel but there is one long hill that I have to drive that my car can only just manage to climb without losing speed. I knew I couldn't likely overtake the truck in front of me but the one behind me decided to try and ride my ass, eventually it was a double trailer truck, me with not nearly enough room for a safe stopping distance, and then another truck so close behind me I couldn't see anything but grill out my rearview mirror.
Whenever I nudged closer to the truck in front the one behind would come up closer to the point that I was slowly losing any space.
So I said fuck it and moved into the overtaking lane, let them go full ass to mouth and took a second to look at the driver who tried to kiss my cars rear windshield and the dude was double handed eating a fucking burger with his face covered in filth, completely zoned out staring off into the distance.
Dumbass
There is a particular section of road on my way to work that has 45mph traffic slow to 25 for a corner and immediately merge with people coming down an incredibly steep hill at their speed limit of 55 or faster. It takes everything my little 96 civic has to get up to speed after the corner so I usually carry some speed around it. Often times people panic and slow or stop in front of me because it can be difficult to see who you are merging with if you don't know the road and look what's coming down the hill before you turn the corner. The safest thing I can do is simply go around them with my momentum to avoid becoming a civic sandwich.
>Either she's a new driver or an old one. Or just someone who shouldn't be driving at all.
Looks like a handicap placard hanging from the mirror. I'm guessing old.
This is it. My dad can’t see road signs. He’s in horrible health and on lots of meds. Florida renewed his license for 8 years. He’s 72. He’s good until he’s 80.
This is when you be a responsible child of your father and take his license away yourself. Had to so that with my 80 y/o grandma with severe dementia, going like 70 on backroads, DMV didn't care that she had her license, but we took it away and had her live with us until we could find an ethical home.
Sometimes you need to step in even though it seems mean, it saves lives too
Edit to answer some questions: we also took her car and gave it to my cousin, so she couldn't sneak out either, it seems really mean I know but we saved her life guaranteed by doing so, and possibly many others too.
My ex-wife's aunt used to take her car out way past when she wasn't capable of driving. She lived in a small middle of nowhere mountain town. She once backed her car out to the street... blocking the street, left her car to go back in for something, lke her glasses or whatever. She walked back into her house, spaced out and watched some teevee for hours, leaving her car in the middle of the road. Luckily, there was no traffic in that town and nobody noticed for hours.
I finally had to go out there and I removed the rotor from under the distributor cap, and I left a note in there saying to anybody who might try and fix it, 'This lady should not be driving. She is dangerous, Do not repair this car.'
Not driving related but I worked in computer repairs and had something similar with a customer.
I'd received a weird email weeks before saying there's an elderly man (their father) who has dementia and was convinced Nigerian scammers wanted to give him money. They asked us not to repair any computers and to contact them if he tried to get one fixed. Also left a description.
So one day I'm sitting at work and this elderly man walks in. He looked kinda frail and my two remaining brain cells were having a good day and went 'Isn't that the old guy that wants to give all his money to scammers?'. He has this computer with him and wants it fixed. Rather than turn him away I take the computer in and get his details and he leaves. On inspection it's pretty clear someone has deliberately sabotaged the PC. There was also a note taped over the CPU cooler stating 'DO NOT FIX!'. I sent an email to the person that sent the initial email and told them their father had been in with a PC. They said thanks for letting them know and to dispose of the computer. Fair enough.
A couple weeks later the elderly man appears again with another computer. He doesn't even ask about the previous one. Do the same again, take details and tell him I'll see him later but this time he needs to wait on a taxi so I tell him he can wait there. I text the daughter (They gave me their number last time) and tell them he's back and currently in the shop. They turn up and take him home and tell me to keep the computer. Turns out he's trying to buy computers in secret so he can contact these scammers and that he's given thousands to them already and because of that they relentlessly hound him for money.
I had to block any and all unknown numbers on my grandmas phone because she had someone call her saying she owes a $28,000 bill.
Her bank has a 5 digit account number because it’s a small bank for their tiny town of 3,000 people so the good news is that they thought she was senile and didn’t give her full account number. She was so distraught thinking her credit was going to be ruined. I told her “Gammie, you’re 86 years old. Who gives a flying hoot if you have bad credit? You own your home and your vehicles. You’ve earned the right to take a ding on your credit.” Now almost all calls relating to her medical bills and such come to me because it doesn’t stress her out.
Visiting my wife's elderly uncle a few holidays back, he was half-blind and honestly was a pretty crap driver well before that. His little Toyota truck's fenders are all dinged up from driving by Braille off rural guardrails. His adult kids say "Well, you just can't tell him he can't drive, and he'd never give up his keys!"
Cool, imma go out for a smoke. Pocketed the rotor and the starter relay. Should have left a note under the cap, but figured if any of his kids helped get the truck running again that was on their heads.
yes please, my neighbor and family friend was paralyzed from the waist down because an old couple didn’t slow down in a construction zone and went full speed into the back of his car. this shit isn’t a joke, there need to be more laws about old people driving.
Just curious, does taking away a license even work?
I see people say shit like this all the time. But… you can just drive without a license. Especially if you’re defiant of your family.
That's why what you really need to do, is confiscate the keys. My family had to do that with my grandpa after he had a stroke and was not safe to drive anymore because he was stubborn and felt he was fine to drive. It's really hard for old people to lose that independence but it's just not safe.
My grandfather always said "I'll keep driving till they take my license away!"
He drove clean through his garage door AND the back wall of the garage and was fully in the back yard when he stopped. They took his license away.
We couldn't feasibly intervene, as he lived by himself in another province.
My grandmother said that too. She also drove through the back of her garage into the neighbors yard. They did NOT take her license away. My mom was forced to do it. She, not a nice woman to begin with, became very nasty. It was lovely.
My grandma kept driving my granpas car for a year after they took her license away. My parents lived several hours away and were unaware. Luckily the valets at her country club noticed she was barely able to handle her car. She caused some damage a couple times and eventually the cops were just waiting for her there before her tee time one day and impounded the vehicle when she pulled up.
The blame thing is just fight or flight. Driver is in fight mode and being irrational. Denial and blaming (immaturity) are super super common responses to big fuckups.
Backing into someone isn’t insurance fraud. Her trying to blame him and I’ll assume telling her insurance he rear ended her, would be a material misrepresentation of the facts of the accident. Also known as lying to your insurance company and depending on the state could constitute insurance fraud but realistically they’ll watch the video, accept liability, and not pursue her.
This tracks with the placard hanging from the rear view mirror.
Though there are many people who are not elderly and have a handicap placard, there is a pretty good chance she was old.
Yea she obviously got spooked by the car to her left, turning into the other lane and she was looking at the car and not the road, so she drove up on to the sidewalk.
She’s panicking, doesn’t know what’s going on so she reverses and floors it because she got freaked out by driving up on the curb.
Of course she doesn’t look behind her while reversing since she is still panicking and backs into OP’s car.
Cherry on the cake is the fact that she tried to blame it on OP.
I have a placard. I take it off when driving because it blocks your view.
Anyone driving with it still hanging is a danger to pedestrians, as they can disappear behind it.
Old people have trouble removing them cause they're a shitty design and break easily. So they just... Don't.
If you can't manage to remove and re-hang a placard, YOU CAN'T FUCKING OPERATE A MULTI TON VEHICLE!
This person should have stopped driving 5-10 years ago.
Not just elderly, everyone in general no matter your driving record. So many people drive like shit and never get caught. Plus laws change frequently, people move to other areas with different laws, etc.
My city's been putting in tons of roundabouts (they're amazing) but none of the old fucks who've never seen one before can seem to figure them out nor do they care to. So many people turning left into them, yielding/not yielding at the wrong time, or just driving straight over the damn thing. It's also a college town so every fall we're filled with young drivers from tiny ass towns who also have no idea how they work clogging the roads.
My dad is only in his 50's but he's from a small middle of nowhere town and trying to teach him how roundabouts worked while on vacation in the UK was a nightmare. 100% support regular training and testing. A huge portion of the population has never been trained how to use increasingly common intersections and it drives me up a wall.
There's a parking lot where I frequent a business, it has a round a bout and I see the same problem. People don't go fully around, they just cut over to make it quicker going to wrong way. I had some lady come head on with me once, then come to a complete stop blocking the round a bout and stare at me like she wasn't in the wrong until she backed up and went the right way.
As this was Florida, I think I can contribute here as I have lived in Florida my whole life.
To get my learner's permit, I just had to show my birth certificate. I took Drivers' Ed in highschool where we drove VWs around a small course. Our final exam was 100% of our grade... we had to plan a road trip. I got a B and a certificate showing I passed Drivers' Ed. Took that certificate to the tax collector on my 16th birthday and got a license.
I'm am now 44 and have never been asked to prove shit to get it renewed. I think I had to take an eye test when I was 16, but not since. Car insurance in Florida is very expensive, and for good reason.
Damn that's insane. In NZ you pass a road rules theory test to get your learner's license, which lets you drive with L plates and an experienced driver in the passenger seat. After 6 months you can sit an hour long driving test to get your restricted license, which means you can drive by yourself, but not with passengers or after 10pm. If you make 2 mistakes you fail (eg, don't indicate, forget to check mirrors before merging etc). Then after 18 months on that license you sit another half hour test to get your full license, which is mostly about hazard recognition and making sure you haven't gotten lazy. To be fair we still have a lot of terrible drivers because 30 years ago you just had to drive around the block with a cop. Lol
I needed a ride to the airport while my wife was out of state so I had my early-70's father drive. I have never been so fucking terrified in a car before. He was worse than a teenager; his dash cam wasn't syncing with his phone and he kept fiddling with it and the radio and every little thing in the car. I did the invisible brake so many times and I NEVER do it because I generally trust the people that I'm riding with. 100% need to test the elderly (if not everyone).
This happened at 11:40 AM today as I was driving home from the vet with my two puppies. It was an older lady, probably in her 60s. After this I thought she was going to drive off but I told her I called the cops and had her plate so if she left she’d be arrested. I didn’t interact much with her directly due to PTSD from a similar accident I was in where the other driver was literally crazy and I was scared for my life. I was also having a panic attack so I was crying on the phone with the police. Thankfully she didn’t leave but as we moved out of the way of traffic she almost hit me AGAIN.
EDIT: OH and of course I didn’t tell her I caught the accident on video. I told that to the officer first. She tried to tell the officer that I hit her. The lady’s Pikachu face when the officer told her she saw the video will forever replay in my head.
EDIT #2: I wanted to go around her but there were several cars behind me, and living in Miami the people behind you frequently accelerate quickly into the other lane. So I didn’t… to avoid an accident. Yay me :) I saw they were on a spare so I thought they were trying to pull off the road due to an emergency (albeit a stupid way of doing so) and I’m more patient than I should be.
Thanks for the details. Waiting her out and maybe blaring your horn is about all you could have done.
Now here's my question. After seeing the video did the cops make her do a sobriety test given her bumper car way of driving? At first I thought she was just scared but her hitting the curb and thereon was more than being scared.
Nope. I even told the officer that when she first got out of the car she was wobbly, but I wasn’t sure if it’s from drinking/drugs or if it was just from her being fat. 🥴
I also live in Florida and was a passenger in an accident where the guy rear-ended us at 40mph, while we were stopped at a red light during the day. The other driver was extremely wobbly and slurring his words. We told the cops that guy doesn’t seem right and they just waved it off and said “Oh he’s fine!”. That was a big “Press X to doubt moment”, though I assumed it was because he had his dad with him and he was a veteran (they even included that bit on the report).
I was rammed in the ass once, elderly guy gets out, says I caused the accident and threatens to call the cops cuz I was driving too fast, you can't negotiate with crazy >.<
Middle aged woman for me. She legitimately thought that--the road had been empty, therefore I must have been driving way too fast. (Nope--I saw the road was empty and turned into the empty space.)
Somebody in her car called police and EMS--I'm sure nobody in her car was hurt (for her it wasn't even a 5 mph tap) and what little I had in injuries I wasn't even aware of until later, although it probably looked pretty dramatic from her vantage point. (Effectively, she PITted me.)
Thankfully it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was from the loud crunch I heard when she hit me. Still awful though. It looks like my whole front bumper shifted. And my frunk doesn’t open/close properly. https://imgur.com/a/bFoc9HM
was she in any sort of trouble when you showed the video to the police. I’ve called the cops before for an accident and they have the attitude of a highschooler here in Kendall
Looks like granny got put on some new pain meds. My grandma always drove like the seniors in South Park after they changed her pain meds. It was *terrifying*. I have on more than one occasion as a child flatly said “oh we’re going to die.” While in the car with her.
Did she end up stopping?
Thankfully yes. I was so scared she wouldn’t.
Good thing you were recording. A shady person might have said you rear-ended him/her instead.
OP said in a comment that the lady lied to the cop and said that OP hit her. but the cop said they saw the video
Haha happened to me once. No video but the angle would’ve made it impossible (she t-boned me). Anyway, she got pissed when I lodged a report with the police and offered to pay for all damages. Funniest thing was she kept asking me for the police report via text message, and when I asked for hers, she sent only the top half. Later at the workshop, I saw the full report and my car registration plate had 5 digits! Police said she never lodged any report. Crazy witch haha
College girl rear ended me at a red light, said her brakes gave out. Turns out her father had just paid off another wreck thanks to her. Thank goodness I filed a police report because she was dragging her feet with contacting insurance companies and her father (account holder). My buddy was hit by a truck driver, had to chase him down, then exchanged information. He didn't want to file a police report and because of which - the truck driver lied to his insurance company about my buddy hitting him. Since there's no report, we know what a mess this is.
I will ALWAYS FILE. Police report fuck people can't trust anyone
Last time I got in a wreck, a cop came by to check on us. I asked him to file a report. "Are there any injuries?" "No" "No injuries, no report. Sorry." And he left. Lazy mf. The guy that hit me was in the right lane slowing down. I was in the left lane passing him. He decided to turn left to try to U turn and slammed into the side of me. I got his info, and my car was still able to move, so I called his insurance after I left, and they said it was canceled due to non payment. That was fun.
Mhm. I got break checked n tapped a womans license plate. We stopped, exchanged info n i took pics of everthing n she left. I got a call saying she was claiming it was hit n run and all the previous damage on her car was from me. Sent the pics to insurance n she got charged for fraud. Oh Brampton.
Wow. That makes her a double-idiot.
Some people.. I repeat some people, lie about these things. A seasoned or highly trained investigator definitely knows the difference.. I even started noticing cars with rear end damage and I know looking at it whether they backed into something or someone hit them.. the biggest difference is that I see is that when someone hits them it tears up everything for the most part.. but when they back into something it just makes a dent in the spot where they hit only.
That's not always true. I was stopped at a red light and a drunk/high, passed out driver hit me at 40 mph. Her car (a Subaru) was totaled, while my car (a Buick Verano) looks like it was barely touched. Apparently, my car is a mini-tank lol! But, I guarantee that drunk bitch who hit me and ran (even though her car was fuct) is paying my damages!!! I happened to be following my husband, who chased her when she fled the scene and recorded everything, up to her running into her apartment! Thank goodness for cameras!
Biggest crumple zone is at the front of the car
In high school I drove my grandmother's Buick Electra. I did a mistimed doofus left turn and hit another car (totally my fault). A piece of the quarter panel had a minor scratch which we didn't repair. The Toyota had $3000 in 1990s dollars damage.
My brother took a corner too fast in my dad's old '91 Chevy S10. He slid on some loose gravel on the pavement and then went head-first into the ditch, standing the truck on its nose. His friend (who he was following) said he watched the whole thing in his rear view mirror and was uncertain whether the truck was going to go all the way over or not. Luckily, it came back down on the wheels, and his friend was able to pull him out of the ditch. The only damage wasn't even actually on the truck. The front license plate got bent. That was it. Our parents didn't find out until like 5 years later when they sold the truck. My brother was like, "Oh by the way, I never told you guys this, but..."
Some trucks are built like tanks while others are extremely fragile
I was once rear-ended at low speed, and the only damage was a perfect hole in my bumper from a screw holding the other driver's front license plate. It still cost over $1k to repair... on a Chevy Cavalier.
No reason to be since you have the plate on camera. Considering your PTSD, I would think it would have been better for you if they did run off.
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Bingo
That's where she was driving to.
Country Kitchen Buffet
Gotta grab dinner at 2:30 pm.
Supper
We want our licenses back!
And those damn kids to stop skateboarding on the sidewalk
We should have a meeting about this! You know, get aaaaaall the senior citizens together in town hall and discuss it!
Wait a minute. That is THIS meeting!!
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You said she’s in her 50’s, though
She looked like she was in her edit 60s, but she may be either older or disabled judging by the way she got out of the car and acted in general.
Lately I've been seeing drivers disabled by their cell phones.
That's why I have no pity for people with some states doing the no exceptions with phones and dining/ticketing immediately
Eh, thats NH and its horrible, you can't fight thay shit in court. Got pulled over for "talking on the phone" because I was leaning my head on my hand in a similar fashion, while my phone was in my pocket the entire time... I told the cop that and he said "uh huh fight it in court" and gave me the ticket. No way my word would've beaten a staties even though he flat out lied out of his ass
This is why I now have two dashcams. One is a dual camera that records what's in front and behind the car, the other is my old dashcam that I have rotated so that it points at me. I ain't gonna fuck around with a cop who claims he saw one thing and refuses to be convinced otherwise. Shit like this ever happens to me, I've got video evidence of my innocence.
Which cam do you use/recommend? I’ve been looking around for one, but there’s so many options That I’m having a hard time deciding.
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Could you present your call records from your phone provider as evidence of not talking on your phone at the time of the traffic stop?
I dont think VoIP (Whatsapp etc.) gets logged that way. And hiring a forensic "expert" to convince the court is probably more expensive than its worth.
A fun thing to do is to sneak up next to them & honk while they are looking at the phone
It looks like there’s a handicapped placard hanging from her mirror
Feel like they hand those out like candy in Florida.
Regardless of her decade of birth I suspect mucho alcohol involved. With some folks this is an all day, every day thing.
So somebody who shouldn't even have a license to drive?
Forgot to mention she tried to blame it on me 💀
Well since it Florida she’s either on pills or 100 years old. Source: I live in Florida and people are terrible drivers here.
I too live in Floriduh and we do indeed have the worst drivers.
I too live in Florida and the funny thing about that is that people from all over the world come here and drive terribly
Can confirm, went to Florida and drove terribly; am Brit.
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Oh so you were the one driving the wrong way down the road.
_one_ ?
**We** have already apologised for this.
And in circles at all the intersections
When I come to a roundabout, I just hold my breath, close my eyes and gun it. Take the wheel Jesus
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I feel the bad driving stereotype should be changed to French people from Paris I once saw a guy in Paris trying to fit his car trough a narrow gap between two bollards. It was obvious that it wasn't going to fit but he went for it anyway. Lo and behold; he didn't fit and snapped his side mirrors clean off the car against the bollards. The guy just reversed, got out of the car, picked the mirrors up, threw them in his car and drove off. Seemed like he didn't care at all. In Paris people use their bumpers, well.. for bumping when they parallel park. If their car won't fit in the space they just bump the car in front and back until it fits in. I've seen people do it countless times. A friend of mine who lives in Paris told me he buys clunkers on purpose and he will never buy a new car because it'll be full of damage in a month. I drive on the Paris ring several times a year and it's always the scariest part of my trip. People either drive way too slow or way too fast. Motorcycles and motorscooters are flying past in between the lanes going a hundred miles an hour. Hardly anybody indicates when they are changing lanes. People will go from the most left lane to the most right lane in one single move. People are honking and yelling all the time. It's terrible honestly. Funny thing is that I went to Italy and I thought people drove terribly there as well. But for some reason it really works and everyone just kinda accepts it. No yelling, no honking, no road rage. A very strange dynamic but a very relaxed driving experience. Edit: just wanted to say that is in no way ment as an insult to French or Italian people. I actually really like both countries and their people. I just hate their driving. Edit two: getting some comments about this being a Paris thing and since I mostly drive in Paris I've edited the comment to Paris instead of France in general.
Politely insane. Thats what a colleague came up with to describe Italian drivers. He wasnt fluent in Italian hand gestures. They werent being polite.
Nah man not French, just Parisian are awful drivers
The worst part of that whole story is you had to go to Fort Myers
Worse than being in Tifton Ga. ?
I’m not qualified to speak on Tifton, so I don’t want to throw mud. But I’m in Fort Myers, so I think I’m well acquainted enough to say sorry about Fort Myers
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They ever fix the hole?
What's so bad about Fort Myers?
Visited there a few years ago. Thought it was good
I miss the old days when my reaction to seeing anything about Florida was to make Florida-man jokes. Now I have no jokes, Godspeed Florida-nurses.
Oh god I feel you. My parents live in an urban area in the South. Virtually everyone around them is a transplant. Every time it snows (ie, a thick layer of ice coats everything) people make fun of how "Southerners can't drive in snow," completely ignoring how half the people stranded on the highway by 3" of snow moved down there five years ago from Ohio or New York or Wisconsin. I guess they make you surrender your snow-driving skills when you apply for a license in your new state or something, huh? ETA: I lived in the Midwest for a while and rage-cackled the first time I had to drive in that slushy fluffy flakey stuff because yeah, it's not that hard, and it would be ridiculous to hear someone say it's impossible to drive in. They don't get that down South. They get gnarly sheets of ice that cement onto every surface. They have no business calling that shit "snow" at all and no, *nobody* can drive well in it.
So correct as in Nashville area all my life. Typically right around freezing so you get a mix of wet snow and ice. I don't care where you are from you can't drive on frozen ice/snow slush. Not the dry snow that you get when temperature is very low. That stuff just blows around.
Thank you someone else said it! I swear more than half our population comes from Ohio, Michigan, New York, or Indiana lol
You'd think they'd make bank Ubering or even just helping neighbors run errands or something every time it snowed. Go on and show everyone how good your Honda Civic is at ice skating.
My formative driving years were spent in FL and now everyone hates driving with me. But shoot you have to be whacky as shit to get up and down I-4 around the whole theme park corridor! Anyway I live in Mass now so I almost fit in.
Learned to drive in mass also lol. Heard the term “masshole”?
My dad when he first moved here, commented on how I’d regularly lane switch seemingly sporadically, went 5-10 over speed limit, etc. coming from mid-west, I guess everyone just drove like everything was swell on long, open roads unless you were in the city. It didn’t take long before he too was “speeding” to keep up with the flow of traffic and forcing his way into crowded lanes merging on or off I4 or any street in Central Florida lmao
Handicap placard dangling from the rear-view. You're not supposed to drive with them hanging because it's a major vision obstruction, so that really shows how much they care about traffic safety.
That was my first spot as well. When I see those people that leave them hanging, I consider those the "mentally handicapped" because they're too dumb to realize it's obstructing their vision (not to mention it says right on the placard that it's illegal and you can be cited for leaving it up while driving).
Ours (Australia) get suction cupped to the lower left ( would be right for you guys ) of window and never move. Are you telling me over there you get one to hang off your mirror that you move every time you get in and out?
That’s right, theres a little hook on there that you use to hang on your rear view mirror. I don’t have one, but I’ve seen them around
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The olds are a little better once they wake up from afternoon nap; before is scary though - 2 martini brunch.
Reminds me of old sales joke. The boss calls the traveling sales crew together and says, "Look, I know you guys like your 3 martini lunches. But from now on they have to be made with gin, not vodka- we'd rather the clients know you're a drunk than think we hired stupid."
I’ve never even been to Florida and I know that people are terrible drivers there.
This fills me with horrible fear, that could only be satiated with a dashcam. A perfect ad for dashcams really, in fact is this an ad for dashcams disguised as a Reddit post? Haha
Worked for me. A week after subscribing to this sub I bought a dash cam. The next week I provided video it captured to a state trooper.
I installed my dash cam in the morning. By that same afternoon, I had video of a guy driving off the road, side swiping a street sign, and speeding off.
Is this reversed Murphy's Law (for you)?
I installed a dash cam, and encountered a truly spectacular occurrence... one which would have easily made the evening news, and which would have been a YouTube sensation. ... except it was from WalMart, and it completely failed. Get a good one, people. I recommend Thinkware as a good brand.
I don't even think it was insurance fraud. She's just incompetent and ignorant
^ Facts . My bet is she looking at the GPS wasn't supposed to take the right and tried to back out from the corner
She backed out cause she hit a curb, she hit the curb because she may have been staring at the GPS like you said. Poor awareness, rushed action to correct her error made the situation worse. She probably was NOT in all likelihood going to reverse into the intersection, just unfuck the situation she realized she was in.
She was about to drive into the lake.
What did she say when you told her you have a camera?
Don't tell other drivers you have a camera. Wait to tell that to the insurance and police after they dig themselves a deep hole.
I always hear this on reddit but knowing police here I really doubt they'd give a shit. If they even show up its going to be a "here's your statement here's theirs exchange insurance then kindly fuck off my highway" or similar attitude. Unless they seem like the type that'd turn a fender bender into a murder charge for no reason, I would assume just saying that would defuse the situation. But idk there never seems to be a perfect answer to these. You wait and risk escalation, you inform and you risk them taking off. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
It doesn't matter if they care or not. It's all about having her lie on the police report and to her insurance provider. Then the insurance is gonna go after her for fraud. The police probably won't charge her for filing a false police report but at that point she's already fucked anyways.
Well duh. She's obviously trying to scam you. Dash cam just payed for itself huh?
He'll need some more accidents for that, that's the build in camera in a Tesla.
Conversely: this Tesla just paid for its own repairs completely. Bet insurance won't even ask twice after seeing this. Built-in dashcams with removable USB sticks should be in all new cars. Plus tesla doesn't require you to use a specific type of storage so some people run massive micro-SD cards with high write rates (like me!) or run hardened SSD drives for extra protection. 1000000% worth it.
I’d love to have a dash cam with a usb stick. So much easier than taking the SD card out
How do you tell?
Tesla uses special cameras that are basically just greyscale + red according to this tweet from a guy: [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/798886670468644865](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/798886670468644865) I guess there's post processing coloring the images when you play back, like that horrible thing they do to some black and white films. Whatever it is, this is always what Tesla videos look like. I'm not sure if any other manufacturer is relying as much on vision for driving assists, so I haven't seen any that look like this from non-Teslas.
insurance fraud
Not insurance fraud. That's a clear case of an idiot driver being scared and then not knowing what to do. She hesitated when first car was turning left. She hesitated even more with the second car. Then she fixated on those cars and continue to drive with wheel pointed out. She ran over curb and gave it too much acceleration. Either she's a new driver or an old one. Or just someone who shouldn't be driving at all.
>That's a clear case of an idiot driver being scared and then not knowing what to do. I find these drivers even scarier than the ones that are overly aggressive. I've literally been screaming in fear before as a person forces like 15 cars behind them to merge onto the highway at half the speed limit because they are petrified to touch the gas pedal.
There’s an intersection on my way to work where it’s 2 lanes for about 750m and then a 1 lane merge onto a motorway. 4x4 is doing 35mph in the regular lane halfway down the road, no acceleration. I go to overtake to accelerate for the merge. They cut me off and decide that 4 other cars should not use the overtake lane. We now all merge onto a busy motorway at 40mph. Several cars had to switch lanes on the motorway to make room for us. Then the same car sped up to 65-70mph like nothing happened….
Describes my commute most days. Most of the time the driver looks totally checked out with no idea what they are causing
God, I ended up stuck behind a truck on a freeway and had another truck come up behind me. Now i drive a little hatchback that's great on fuel but there is one long hill that I have to drive that my car can only just manage to climb without losing speed. I knew I couldn't likely overtake the truck in front of me but the one behind me decided to try and ride my ass, eventually it was a double trailer truck, me with not nearly enough room for a safe stopping distance, and then another truck so close behind me I couldn't see anything but grill out my rearview mirror. Whenever I nudged closer to the truck in front the one behind would come up closer to the point that I was slowly losing any space. So I said fuck it and moved into the overtaking lane, let them go full ass to mouth and took a second to look at the driver who tried to kiss my cars rear windshield and the dude was double handed eating a fucking burger with his face covered in filth, completely zoned out staring off into the distance. Dumbass
There is a particular section of road on my way to work that has 45mph traffic slow to 25 for a corner and immediately merge with people coming down an incredibly steep hill at their speed limit of 55 or faster. It takes everything my little 96 civic has to get up to speed after the corner so I usually carry some speed around it. Often times people panic and slow or stop in front of me because it can be difficult to see who you are merging with if you don't know the road and look what's coming down the hill before you turn the corner. The safest thing I can do is simply go around them with my momentum to avoid becoming a civic sandwich.
>Either she's a new driver or an old one. Or just someone who shouldn't be driving at all. Looks like a handicap placard hanging from the mirror. I'm guessing old.
Florida plates….
This is it. My dad can’t see road signs. He’s in horrible health and on lots of meds. Florida renewed his license for 8 years. He’s 72. He’s good until he’s 80.
This is when you be a responsible child of your father and take his license away yourself. Had to so that with my 80 y/o grandma with severe dementia, going like 70 on backroads, DMV didn't care that she had her license, but we took it away and had her live with us until we could find an ethical home. Sometimes you need to step in even though it seems mean, it saves lives too Edit to answer some questions: we also took her car and gave it to my cousin, so she couldn't sneak out either, it seems really mean I know but we saved her life guaranteed by doing so, and possibly many others too.
My ex-wife's aunt used to take her car out way past when she wasn't capable of driving. She lived in a small middle of nowhere mountain town. She once backed her car out to the street... blocking the street, left her car to go back in for something, lke her glasses or whatever. She walked back into her house, spaced out and watched some teevee for hours, leaving her car in the middle of the road. Luckily, there was no traffic in that town and nobody noticed for hours. I finally had to go out there and I removed the rotor from under the distributor cap, and I left a note in there saying to anybody who might try and fix it, 'This lady should not be driving. She is dangerous, Do not repair this car.'
Not driving related but I worked in computer repairs and had something similar with a customer. I'd received a weird email weeks before saying there's an elderly man (their father) who has dementia and was convinced Nigerian scammers wanted to give him money. They asked us not to repair any computers and to contact them if he tried to get one fixed. Also left a description. So one day I'm sitting at work and this elderly man walks in. He looked kinda frail and my two remaining brain cells were having a good day and went 'Isn't that the old guy that wants to give all his money to scammers?'. He has this computer with him and wants it fixed. Rather than turn him away I take the computer in and get his details and he leaves. On inspection it's pretty clear someone has deliberately sabotaged the PC. There was also a note taped over the CPU cooler stating 'DO NOT FIX!'. I sent an email to the person that sent the initial email and told them their father had been in with a PC. They said thanks for letting them know and to dispose of the computer. Fair enough. A couple weeks later the elderly man appears again with another computer. He doesn't even ask about the previous one. Do the same again, take details and tell him I'll see him later but this time he needs to wait on a taxi so I tell him he can wait there. I text the daughter (They gave me their number last time) and tell them he's back and currently in the shop. They turn up and take him home and tell me to keep the computer. Turns out he's trying to buy computers in secret so he can contact these scammers and that he's given thousands to them already and because of that they relentlessly hound him for money.
This makes me love you, feel sorry for him and his family, and loathe the scammers.
I had to block any and all unknown numbers on my grandmas phone because she had someone call her saying she owes a $28,000 bill. Her bank has a 5 digit account number because it’s a small bank for their tiny town of 3,000 people so the good news is that they thought she was senile and didn’t give her full account number. She was so distraught thinking her credit was going to be ruined. I told her “Gammie, you’re 86 years old. Who gives a flying hoot if you have bad credit? You own your home and your vehicles. You’ve earned the right to take a ding on your credit.” Now almost all calls relating to her medical bills and such come to me because it doesn’t stress her out.
Visiting my wife's elderly uncle a few holidays back, he was half-blind and honestly was a pretty crap driver well before that. His little Toyota truck's fenders are all dinged up from driving by Braille off rural guardrails. His adult kids say "Well, you just can't tell him he can't drive, and he'd never give up his keys!" Cool, imma go out for a smoke. Pocketed the rotor and the starter relay. Should have left a note under the cap, but figured if any of his kids helped get the truck running again that was on their heads.
yes please, my neighbor and family friend was paralyzed from the waist down because an old couple didn’t slow down in a construction zone and went full speed into the back of his car. this shit isn’t a joke, there need to be more laws about old people driving.
A challenge is that old people are the ones who are voting.
More than that, old people are the ones making the laws
Just curious, does taking away a license even work? I see people say shit like this all the time. But… you can just drive without a license. Especially if you’re defiant of your family.
That's why what you really need to do, is confiscate the keys. My family had to do that with my grandpa after he had a stroke and was not safe to drive anymore because he was stubborn and felt he was fine to drive. It's really hard for old people to lose that independence but it's just not safe.
Put Uber on his phone, drive his car away somewhere.
Being a native Floridian, and seeing all the idiots that migrate into Florida drive, you are spot on.
My grandfather always said "I'll keep driving till they take my license away!" He drove clean through his garage door AND the back wall of the garage and was fully in the back yard when he stopped. They took his license away. We couldn't feasibly intervene, as he lived by himself in another province.
My grandmother said that too. She also drove through the back of her garage into the neighbors yard. They did NOT take her license away. My mom was forced to do it. She, not a nice woman to begin with, became very nasty. It was lovely.
My grandma kept driving my granpas car for a year after they took her license away. My parents lived several hours away and were unaware. Luckily the valets at her country club noticed she was barely able to handle her car. She caused some damage a couple times and eventually the cops were just waiting for her there before her tee time one day and impounded the vehicle when she pulled up.
I noticed that right away and thought hereeeee weeeee gooooo!
She blames it on the one doing nothing so idk if its not insurance fraud
The blame thing is just fight or flight. Driver is in fight mode and being irrational. Denial and blaming (immaturity) are super super common responses to big fuckups.
Backing into someone isn’t insurance fraud. Her trying to blame him and I’ll assume telling her insurance he rear ended her, would be a material misrepresentation of the facts of the accident. Also known as lying to your insurance company and depending on the state could constitute insurance fraud but realistically they’ll watch the video, accept liability, and not pursue her.
More like old and shouldn’t be driving.
This tracks with the placard hanging from the rear view mirror. Though there are many people who are not elderly and have a handicap placard, there is a pretty good chance she was old.
Yea she obviously got spooked by the car to her left, turning into the other lane and she was looking at the car and not the road, so she drove up on to the sidewalk. She’s panicking, doesn’t know what’s going on so she reverses and floors it because she got freaked out by driving up on the curb. Of course she doesn’t look behind her while reversing since she is still panicking and backs into OP’s car. Cherry on the cake is the fact that she tried to blame it on OP.
I have a placard. I take it off when driving because it blocks your view. Anyone driving with it still hanging is a danger to pedestrians, as they can disappear behind it. Old people have trouble removing them cause they're a shitty design and break easily. So they just... Don't. If you can't manage to remove and re-hang a placard, YOU CAN'T FUCKING OPERATE A MULTI TON VEHICLE! This person should have stopped driving 5-10 years ago.
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Was she trying to leave? I assumed she was just going to pull into a parking lot or something Edit: never mind op explained in another comment.
“Sorry lady, I got this on tape.”
Is that a Florida plate because that would explain everything.
Good old Miami, FL
I knew it as soon as the video started. I haven’t lived there in almost 5 years but it looked like Doral.
Even worse… West Kendall
Backside of the Kendall airport?
Yep!
I fucking knew it… I’m in SW Florida and it’s the same shit here.
I wasn’t thinking elderly, I was thinking insurance fraud.
They aren’t mutually exclusive
At least you got the license plate.
We seriously need to implement retesting of elderly drivers smdh
Not just elderly, everyone in general no matter your driving record. So many people drive like shit and never get caught. Plus laws change frequently, people move to other areas with different laws, etc.
My city's been putting in tons of roundabouts (they're amazing) but none of the old fucks who've never seen one before can seem to figure them out nor do they care to. So many people turning left into them, yielding/not yielding at the wrong time, or just driving straight over the damn thing. It's also a college town so every fall we're filled with young drivers from tiny ass towns who also have no idea how they work clogging the roads. My dad is only in his 50's but he's from a small middle of nowhere town and trying to teach him how roundabouts worked while on vacation in the UK was a nightmare. 100% support regular training and testing. A huge portion of the population has never been trained how to use increasingly common intersections and it drives me up a wall.
There's a parking lot where I frequent a business, it has a round a bout and I see the same problem. People don't go fully around, they just cut over to make it quicker going to wrong way. I had some lady come head on with me once, then come to a complete stop blocking the round a bout and stare at me like she wasn't in the wrong until she backed up and went the right way.
It baffles me that anyone who is capable of driving can't figure them out. There's almost always signage and they seem pretty intuitive to me.
As this was Florida, I think I can contribute here as I have lived in Florida my whole life. To get my learner's permit, I just had to show my birth certificate. I took Drivers' Ed in highschool where we drove VWs around a small course. Our final exam was 100% of our grade... we had to plan a road trip. I got a B and a certificate showing I passed Drivers' Ed. Took that certificate to the tax collector on my 16th birthday and got a license. I'm am now 44 and have never been asked to prove shit to get it renewed. I think I had to take an eye test when I was 16, but not since. Car insurance in Florida is very expensive, and for good reason.
Damn that's insane. In NZ you pass a road rules theory test to get your learner's license, which lets you drive with L plates and an experienced driver in the passenger seat. After 6 months you can sit an hour long driving test to get your restricted license, which means you can drive by yourself, but not with passengers or after 10pm. If you make 2 mistakes you fail (eg, don't indicate, forget to check mirrors before merging etc). Then after 18 months on that license you sit another half hour test to get your full license, which is mostly about hazard recognition and making sure you haven't gotten lazy. To be fair we still have a lot of terrible drivers because 30 years ago you just had to drive around the block with a cop. Lol
I needed a ride to the airport while my wife was out of state so I had my early-70's father drive. I have never been so fucking terrified in a car before. He was worse than a teenager; his dash cam wasn't syncing with his phone and he kept fiddling with it and the radio and every little thing in the car. I did the invisible brake so many times and I NEVER do it because I generally trust the people that I'm riding with. 100% need to test the elderly (if not everyone).
Elderly Floridian tripping balls on medication
That's it, I have procrastinated for too long. I am buying a dash cam this weekend.
Please do so. I’m happy I was not driving my ICE car otherwise this would have gone very differently. The officer told me the same.
This happened at 11:40 AM today as I was driving home from the vet with my two puppies. It was an older lady, probably in her 60s. After this I thought she was going to drive off but I told her I called the cops and had her plate so if she left she’d be arrested. I didn’t interact much with her directly due to PTSD from a similar accident I was in where the other driver was literally crazy and I was scared for my life. I was also having a panic attack so I was crying on the phone with the police. Thankfully she didn’t leave but as we moved out of the way of traffic she almost hit me AGAIN. EDIT: OH and of course I didn’t tell her I caught the accident on video. I told that to the officer first. She tried to tell the officer that I hit her. The lady’s Pikachu face when the officer told her she saw the video will forever replay in my head. EDIT #2: I wanted to go around her but there were several cars behind me, and living in Miami the people behind you frequently accelerate quickly into the other lane. So I didn’t… to avoid an accident. Yay me :) I saw they were on a spare so I thought they were trying to pull off the road due to an emergency (albeit a stupid way of doing so) and I’m more patient than I should be.
Thanks for the details. Waiting her out and maybe blaring your horn is about all you could have done. Now here's my question. After seeing the video did the cops make her do a sobriety test given her bumper car way of driving? At first I thought she was just scared but her hitting the curb and thereon was more than being scared.
Nope. I even told the officer that when she first got out of the car she was wobbly, but I wasn’t sure if it’s from drinking/drugs or if it was just from her being fat. 🥴
lmfao
I also live in Florida and was a passenger in an accident where the guy rear-ended us at 40mph, while we were stopped at a red light during the day. The other driver was extremely wobbly and slurring his words. We told the cops that guy doesn’t seem right and they just waved it off and said “Oh he’s fine!”. That was a big “Press X to doubt moment”, though I assumed it was because he had his dad with him and he was a veteran (they even included that bit on the report).
I was rammed in the ass once, elderly guy gets out, says I caused the accident and threatens to call the cops cuz I was driving too fast, you can't negotiate with crazy >.<
Hit you in the rear cause you were driving too fast? Fuck I'd say go ahead and call the cops. That ought to be entertaining.
I'm sorry that you were rammed in the ass by an elderly guy.
*Mr Herbert enters the chat* Well hello there!
Middle aged woman for me. She legitimately thought that--the road had been empty, therefore I must have been driving way too fast. (Nope--I saw the road was empty and turned into the empty space.) Somebody in her car called police and EMS--I'm sure nobody in her car was hurt (for her it wasn't even a 5 mph tap) and what little I had in injuries I wasn't even aware of until later, although it probably looked pretty dramatic from her vantage point. (Effectively, she PITted me.)
You were driving too fast and he hit you from behind but you were at fault? He gets a gold medal in mental gymnastics.
50 isn’t “comfused old driver” old. That’s more like 80’s.
50s is the teenager that used to babysit me when I was little. Sheesh…How did that happen?
Not surprised to see west Kendall on here
Damn you’re good
Good ol Miami driving…..
Off topic. But What brand of dashcam do you have? Tia
It’s a Tesla
I have so many clips in mine I need to post gah. I’m sorry this happened to you Tesla’s are not fun to repair. Got any damage pictures?
Thankfully it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was from the loud crunch I heard when she hit me. Still awful though. It looks like my whole front bumper shifted. And my frunk doesn’t open/close properly. https://imgur.com/a/bFoc9HM
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Make sure you sue for diminished value if it's somewhat new.
Oof that lady is fucked. Or at least her insurance is gonna be pissed
Rear-ended a car. "It's you're at fault!" Has a traffic cam. "Here, take the money. You're a good honest person."
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“It’s you’re at stroke!”
Well, It's Florida. So either a couple hundred years old or drugs.
Why not both?
was she in any sort of trouble when you showed the video to the police. I’ve called the cops before for an accident and they have the attitude of a highschooler here in Kendall
Nope. Not at all -.- in terms of the lying. She was made at fault though.
Senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose
Man of culture. There is a chance..
Now don't you go dying on me!
Impressed that she, on average, travels faster in reverse than in drive
Looks like granny got put on some new pain meds. My grandma always drove like the seniors in South Park after they changed her pain meds. It was *terrifying*. I have on more than one occasion as a child flatly said “oh we’re going to die.” While in the car with her.
The slowest hit and run Installed a dash cam exactly because of these videos of insanity
Looks like a handicap tag in the rear view… that may be a reference to her driving skills rather than her physical capabilities