supa_carrot
08-29-2006, 01:07 PM
Well, as the title states I was involved in an accident this morning, while in the Marauder. Fortunately neither my brother or myself were hurt, and it wasn't my fault. Anyhow this is what happened..
I was on my way to school this morning which is about a ten minute trip and I had only been gone maybe five minutes at the very most. I was approaching a red light, which hangs over a three lane road, one for turning and two for driving. No other vehicle was infront of me as I was roughly 100 feet from the light which was red at the time and I began to slow down, soon after the light changed green and I began speeding back up. As I got closer to the intersection I could see an older model Tahoe trying to make a right turn on red, in to my lane. The driver said he didn't see me as I was entering the intersection, so he started to pull out but saw me too late and stopped and tried to make his way onto the shoulder, but didn't. By this time I was right on him and I tried to swurve and miss him but I didn't have much room to go since there was another vehicle in the turning lane, had there not been I could have missed him. I clipped him his front end with my passenger side doors and rear quarter panel. I started fish tailing after the contact, but soon regained control, I pulled over on the shoulder, where I called my Dad and my brother called our Mom. Once, I got out of the car and talked to the guy he admitted it was his fault, and wouldn't contest it, so his insurance will pay for the damage. We (my family) don't plan on filing a law suit like many people in this area would, as he seemed to be a hard working person, and had no intention of pulling out.
The car probably won't be repaired untill the week after next, since the repair shop said the parts won't be in untill the later part of next week.
Ohh well.:down:
I was on my way to school this morning which is about a ten minute trip and I had only been gone maybe five minutes at the very most. I was approaching a red light, which hangs over a three lane road, one for turning and two for driving. No other vehicle was infront of me as I was roughly 100 feet from the light which was red at the time and I began to slow down, soon after the light changed green and I began speeding back up. As I got closer to the intersection I could see an older model Tahoe trying to make a right turn on red, in to my lane. The driver said he didn't see me as I was entering the intersection, so he started to pull out but saw me too late and stopped and tried to make his way onto the shoulder, but didn't. By this time I was right on him and I tried to swurve and miss him but I didn't have much room to go since there was another vehicle in the turning lane, had there not been I could have missed him. I clipped him his front end with my passenger side doors and rear quarter panel. I started fish tailing after the contact, but soon regained control, I pulled over on the shoulder, where I called my Dad and my brother called our Mom. Once, I got out of the car and talked to the guy he admitted it was his fault, and wouldn't contest it, so his insurance will pay for the damage. We (my family) don't plan on filing a law suit like many people in this area would, as he seemed to be a hard working person, and had no intention of pulling out.
The car probably won't be repaired untill the week after next, since the repair shop said the parts won't be in untill the later part of next week.
Ohh well.:down: