Driveway hit & run
Last Friday evening we were sitting in the living room and we heard a bang. I exclaimed "What was that?!" Joe says "Probably just the cats." The cats? The cats? Did we suddenly get lions?
I looked out the window and saw a tan Honda I never saw before pulling off of the bumper of our truck. I ran outside, waving my arms and yelling for the woman to stop, but she kept on going. I was already in my nightgown. Joe was in his boxers and a t-shirt. He just threw on hiking boots and ran out and jumped in the truck and followed the woman. Once she stopped she told him she didn't hit anything. She followed him back. Granted she didn't do a lot of damage, but I was fuming over the fact that this was a "hit and run" that happened in my own driveway.
This woman was picking up her daughter who was visiting our new next door neighbors. For some reason she decided to turn around in our driveway and apparently didn't notice the big blue Chevy 4x4 truck she drove into. Later she said that her mind was wandering and thinking about the fact that her power was off at her house. That is a scary thought, isn't it? She drove into a parked truck because her thoughts were distracted, and then she got on the road??
Anyway, once she saw that she did in fact hit the truck, she gave us her insurance information, but she said that she would call the company herself. The only thing that was damaged was the license plate frame. Not a big deal, except that it is a factory/dealer thing and as such will cost more to replace. She didn't want the police called. So, we took her information. Afterwards I decided to call the police to see if we needed to file a report. The police told us that if the damage was under $1000 they would not take a report. They also said that the woman would be better off just paying for the damage out of pocket. We didn't have her phone number so the police said they would call her directly.
Today is Thursday and we had not heard from the woman or her insurance company, so I called the insurance company myself. They had not heard from the woman either. So, I told them the whole story, right down to the fact that I doubted the damage would even equal her deductible. I also stressed that it was a hit and run. They said I should hear back from them in the next 3-4 days.
Oh, on a side note...Yesterday we saw the neighbor outside and she asked if we had heard from the hit and run lady. Then she told us that they had invited the daughter over again the other day, but the girl told them that her Mom said she wasn't allowed over there anymore because of the whacko neighbors!
I looked out the window and saw a tan Honda I never saw before pulling off of the bumper of our truck. I ran outside, waving my arms and yelling for the woman to stop, but she kept on going. I was already in my nightgown. Joe was in his boxers and a t-shirt. He just threw on hiking boots and ran out and jumped in the truck and followed the woman. Once she stopped she told him she didn't hit anything. She followed him back. Granted she didn't do a lot of damage, but I was fuming over the fact that this was a "hit and run" that happened in my own driveway.
This woman was picking up her daughter who was visiting our new next door neighbors. For some reason she decided to turn around in our driveway and apparently didn't notice the big blue Chevy 4x4 truck she drove into. Later she said that her mind was wandering and thinking about the fact that her power was off at her house. That is a scary thought, isn't it? She drove into a parked truck because her thoughts were distracted, and then she got on the road??
Anyway, once she saw that she did in fact hit the truck, she gave us her insurance information, but she said that she would call the company herself. The only thing that was damaged was the license plate frame. Not a big deal, except that it is a factory/dealer thing and as such will cost more to replace. She didn't want the police called. So, we took her information. Afterwards I decided to call the police to see if we needed to file a report. The police told us that if the damage was under $1000 they would not take a report. They also said that the woman would be better off just paying for the damage out of pocket. We didn't have her phone number so the police said they would call her directly.
Today is Thursday and we had not heard from the woman or her insurance company, so I called the insurance company myself. They had not heard from the woman either. So, I told them the whole story, right down to the fact that I doubted the damage would even equal her deductible. I also stressed that it was a hit and run. They said I should hear back from them in the next 3-4 days.
Oh, on a side note...Yesterday we saw the neighbor outside and she asked if we had heard from the hit and run lady. Then she told us that they had invited the daughter over again the other day, but the girl told them that her Mom said she wasn't allowed over there anymore because of the whacko neighbors!
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Thursday, November 11, 2004
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