rear ended ... and nothing?

[Lazza]

I was on a secondary road doing 35 mph and stopped somewhat suddenly to make a right turn (a pedestrian made indecisive moves about crossing the street, then decided to do so). In about 2 seconds I heard tires squeal and then I was hit. My car was pushed forward a bit. I didn't hear metal on metal, and I don't think I was hit that hard. The person who hit me didn't run off. We got together to exchange information.

Well I was shocked to see that neither her car, a somewhat older Lexus sedan, nor my Sonic HB were damaged. Not even scratched. I wonder why? Perhaps it is because ...

1) The heights of our respective bumpers lined up?
2) She hit me square on?
3) The Sonic is a light vehicle?
4) I was in neutral (I drive a 6MT)?

Dunno. But I somehow feel very lucky.


_Lazza


PS - I suspect the other driver was texting or on the phone. The weather was perfect, not much traffic. She wasn't tailgating me because there was that 2 second delay before I heard her brakes squeal. The road was straight, perfect visibility.

 

[Natesriv]

you can thank Uncle same for bumper height requirements. I'd bet a square on hit and a low enough speed along with your car moving forward...

No harm no foul I guess

 

[mja]

hopefully took pictures and such. These types of things worry me, as Ive had something similar happen and magically a few days later the lady had a huge dent in her bumper and her neck was hurting :/ This is why I always call police to the scene and get a report and take pictures, even for a fender bender. Cant be trusting people or insurance :blankface:

 

[Lazza]

mja, but it sounds it was the other way with you. This woman hit ME. Conceivably I can be nasty and complain about imaginary neck problems but I won't do that. And photos were taken.

There is the unlikelihood I will witness some damage caused by the accident. But right now I see absolutely nothing.


_Lazza

 

[Papasonic]

There most likely will be some damage to the impact absorbing system beneath the bumper skin that isn't visible from the outside. It sounds as if the impact was not too severe, and probably causing minimal damage; but I would still have it examined.

 

[Natesriv]

I think that material is just a honeycomb looking plastic with perhaps some Styrofoam inserts... probably just bolted on... conceivably could replace?

 

[mja]

mja, but it sounds it was the other way with you. This woman hit ME. Conceivably I can be nasty and complain about imaginary neck problems but I won't do that. And photos were taken.

There is the unlikelihood I will witness some damage caused by the accident. But right now I see absolutely nothing.


_Lazza

No, a woman hit me and then complained about neck problems a week later to the insurance company and magically found a huge dent in her front bumper. Since nothing happened I decided to take a pic of my car but didn't think to take one of hers. It's the sort of thing you don't think about until you've been in the situation. Took a year and a half for that madness to end through insurance companies and court, probably a hundred hours with the ins. companies, court, attorney, etc, and she received no money for her lies and neither did I for going through all of that. This is why I'll never trust another soul who runs into my car or if I run into someone else. Geico is better than my last insurance company, Safeco and Lloyds, but I still won't trust people or insurance companies in even the smallest wrecks. I'm just sharing my experience for others who may read this, police report/ticket every time, or a possible nightmare, is my opinion.

 

[rodslinger]

....nor my Sonic HB were damaged.....

I'm doubting this. While not visible I can almost guarantee the foam absorber and/or the bumper bar underneath are bent slightly. That's what they are there for.

Same thing happened to our car. Looked perfect on the outside but underneath was a different story.

 

[MaD]

Definitely take to a shop... it's all about CYA!!! You just can't trust some people... it's burned me to many times, and with that... you don't know until you have the cover pulled and checked [emoji53]

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[Uncletom]

Just today I was working in the yard {oak tree did not survive he last rain storm} after around 4 hours in the 80 degree heat I decided I needed a nice cold retro Mt Dew. I drove down the block to the neighborhood Casey General store and went in and got one.

As I was leaving a large black woman pulled into the parking lot. I noticed that there was front end damage on her older Explorer and figured that was the cost of driving in the big town. I came to a complete stop but she kept moving and bumped into my HHR.

She got yelling that I hit her car and what was I gonna do about it. I picked up my cell phone and dialed 911.

She yelled 'I hope you got real good insurance old man'. 'I got pictures of the damage to my car'. Another black man came up saying he had video of it all and that I was at fault.

She came over to the drivers window of my car ranting so I rolled down the window and told her I had dialed 911 and the cops should be here shortly. She ran back to her car fled.

When the cops got there I had half a dozen witnesses swearing that I had completely stopped and she hit me. Most of us had the description of the teal green and cream Ford Explorer down and her license plate. One man had a few pictures of her vehicle I wasn't sure what year her vehicle was but knew it was of the early 2000 vintage.

Casey's has cameras on the drive too and the cops got a copy of that too.

When the police were there the black man that had it all on video was no where to be seen either but several other people had his license number anyway. I did not see him leave, was too busy talking to the 911 operator and trying to get her tag numbers.

The cop guaranteed me that she will be ticketed for leaving the scene of an accident if they can ever find her and that the man will also be charged with the same. I took my car down to my insurance man to look at along with the accident report. I can see no damage to my buggy except for a very light scrape in the paint on the front bumper.

I kinda think maybe this woman does this a lot and yells a lot then offers to settle for some cash.