My freshly restored 2000 GT Vert rear ended this morning.
07-30-2013, 10:16 AM
#11
TECH SAVANT
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Saint Augustine, FL
Posts: 10,938
In most states a front-end/rear-end collision is always considered the fault of the driver that hits the car in front of them. "Not seeing" your car means they are a stupid ****-poor driver that probably should not be on the road...
07-30-2013, 10:33 AM
#12
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: WA
Posts: 863
Man I feel ya my 2013 GT got hit. Lady backs out of her drive way and pounds my door like its a virgin. Her excuse was I did not see it..... Gotta Have It Green Mustang and you don't see it how the F do you not see that. So Yeah I feel for ya sounds like that person was trying to get off with the I did not see you. Cop's never by that so rake them for every penny you might be able to get more mods out of the deal.
07-31-2013, 06:15 AM
#13
I had the car for 3 freaking days.
08-02-2013, 07:17 AM
#16
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Viera, FL
Posts: 216
Lawyer up with the sleaziest winningest shark of a lawyer you can find. When an adjuster offered me scrap value for my 71 Torino GT Convertible I told her "Lady, the more I argue with you about the value of my car, the worse my back hurts." Don't let em screw you over.
08-02-2013, 07:47 AM
#17
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: ohio
Posts: 3,628
That the truth to, When I got rear ended in my pickup, I was slowed almost to a stop because a guy with his dog was riding a bicycle in front of me and a there was traffic coming the other direction.
I happened to look in my rear view and see this guy coming up from behind me in a pos 80s bronco II cell phone to his ear and looking out the drivers side door window. Hit me so hard it wrapped my double 4" steel tube bumper around his front end and shoved me over 20 ft.
He got out and proceeded to start cussing me out , I had my 11 year old son with me , so I just said don't worry I got 911 on the phone I think my son is ok. thanx. Luckily my son told me later the worst part of the whole thing was the 3 hrs wearing a neck brace in the ER. Guy had crappy Allstate insurance and it took me almost 3 months of fighting with them. I ended up with about 5k and a 95 mustang.
Funniest thing I ever saw was the look on the insurance adjusters face when my kid say to him " Im getting a new ps3 "
08-04-2013, 10:09 AM
#18
Well to update... I was sent for an MRI because of pain and some numbness, and learned I fractured my C7 vertebrae. So I am out of commission for the next 3 weeks or so.
Can't drive, can't do anything but lay around. Meeting with spine doctor wednesday, was put into a neck brace, and may need surgery as the C6 and T1 vertebrae are tweaked as well.
I was walking around fine for a few days, sore as hell but functional, started getting some numbness in my left arm which earned me the MRI and then learning about the fracture. Spent a day in the hospital because of it.
Because they guy who hit me only has PA state minimums... which is $5k property, it wasn't enough to cover the car, so my insurance had to take over. Now I am learning the MRI and my overnight is wiping out what his company can cover in medical so mine takes over in that realm as well.
Any settlement will be a pittance simply because of his minimums so again my insurance will have to kick in. FUN huh?
Can't drive, can't do anything but lay around. Meeting with spine doctor wednesday, was put into a neck brace, and may need surgery as the C6 and T1 vertebrae are tweaked as well.
I was walking around fine for a few days, sore as hell but functional, started getting some numbness in my left arm which earned me the MRI and then learning about the fracture. Spent a day in the hospital because of it.
Because they guy who hit me only has PA state minimums... which is $5k property, it wasn't enough to cover the car, so my insurance had to take over. Now I am learning the MRI and my overnight is wiping out what his company can cover in medical so mine takes over in that realm as well.
Any settlement will be a pittance simply because of his minimums so again my insurance will have to kick in. FUN huh?
08-04-2013, 10:11 AM
#19
08-04-2013, 11:38 AM
#20
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Viera, FL
Posts: 216
Well to update... I was sent for an MRI because of pain and some numbness, and learned I fractured my C7 vertebrae. So I am out of commission for the next 3 weeks or so.
Can't drive, can't do anything but lay around. Meeting with spine doctor wednesday, was put into a neck brace, and may need surgery as the C6 and T1 vertebrae are tweaked as well.
I was walking around fine for a few days, sore as hell but functional, started getting some numbness in my left arm which earned me the MRI and then learning about the fracture. Spent a day in the hospital because of it.
Because they guy who hit me only has PA state minimums... which is $5k property, it wasn't enough to cover the car, so my insurance had to take over. Now I am learning the MRI and my overnight is wiping out what his company can cover in medical so mine takes over in that realm as well.
Any settlement will be a pittance simply because of his minimums so again my insurance will have to kick in. FUN huh?
Can't drive, can't do anything but lay around. Meeting with spine doctor wednesday, was put into a neck brace, and may need surgery as the C6 and T1 vertebrae are tweaked as well.
I was walking around fine for a few days, sore as hell but functional, started getting some numbness in my left arm which earned me the MRI and then learning about the fracture. Spent a day in the hospital because of it.
Because they guy who hit me only has PA state minimums... which is $5k property, it wasn't enough to cover the car, so my insurance had to take over. Now I am learning the MRI and my overnight is wiping out what his company can cover in medical so mine takes over in that realm as well.
Any settlement will be a pittance simply because of his minimums so again my insurance will have to kick in. FUN huh?