Wow, just wow.....
What state is that? How did you find out about what they don't investigate?
Makes me wonder about my own state. I'll have to check into that.
----- Original Message -----
> From: M.B. <mailinglists@moparhowto.com>
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Cc:
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 12:29 AM
> Subject: Re: DML: My yearly crash
>
>
>
> She had current proof of insurance and I got all her information, and
> wrote down her license plate number to boot. We'll see what happens
> when my insurance calls her insurance.
>
> <Rant mode on, don't read the below if you don't like angst>
>
> I called 911 to report it. They told me they don't dispatch police for
> non-injury accidents anymore. A police officer who happened to be
> driving by stopped long enough to roll down his window and ask if anyone
> was hurt. When we said no he roared off on another call. If you want a
> cop to show up you have to lie and say you're injured essentially. The
> cop showed up again 10 minutes later and didn't even take our names,
> much less write her up for failure to yield. Once I get the estimate
> *I* have to file a report with the state police!
>
> Several months ago they disbanded their property crimes investigations
> unit too. Then they went on the news and announced they'd not be
> investigating 95% of reported property crime, and would no longer be
> sending officers to take statements. You're expected to call "Crime
> Check" and file a report, who do nothing other than file a police report
> so you can file with your insurance company for the loss.
>
> Since then our property crime rates have gone up 60%. Crooks are coming
> from as far as Idaho to rob houses because they know they won't be
> caught as easily.
>
> The cops around here do three main things: 1.) Drug busts to bring in
> seizure money for the department 2.) Write tickets to bring money in to
> the department and 3.) Break up domestic disputes.
>
> A lot of this is because they keep getting sued for stuff like this and
> end up paying millions in settlements:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Zehm
>
> </rant mode off>
>
> Either way, I'll get the truck fixed eventually, I'm used to fighting
> with insurance companies by now.
>
> M.B.
>
> On 5/26/2012 9:19 PM, Phillip Batson wrote:
>> Were the cops involved? No
>> reports filed? I wonder if she even has insurance. Doesn't report it,
>> then lies about the intersection green arrow. Crazy!!
>>
>>
>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: M.B.<mailinglists@moparhowto.com>
>>> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>>> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 8:14 PM
>>> Subject: Re: DML: My yearly crash
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Meh, it's not too bad from what I've been able to see. Looks
> mostly like a new bumper, headlight bezel and turn signal. It didn't touch
> the fender at all.
>>>
>>> On the downside, the old biddy didn't report it to her insurance,
> and when the adjuster called from my insurance company she told him that she had
> a "green arrow" (as in, protected left) and that she thought I ran the
> red light, contrary to everything she said the night before.
>>>
>>> My adjuster went to Google Maps and did a street view and didn't
> see a protected left signal there, but didn't know the age of the images.
> So I went out and took a picture of the "green arrow":
>>>
>>> http://www.moparhowto.com/accident_2012-05-23/DSCF1138.JPG
>>>
>>> Sadly for her, no such "green arrow" exists at that
> intersection. It's always an unprotected left. Sucks to be her, the lying
> little such-and-such.
>>>
>>> M.B.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/24/2012 9:14 AM, Michael Maskalans wrote:
>>>> On 24-May, 2012, at 05:21 , M.B. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Well, it looks like me getting in a car crash in a Dakota is
> becoming an annual event. Last year it was T-boned by a Camry in my
> friend's Dak, this year (3 whole days shy of a year from the first accident)
> I'm driving home and an old lady out past her bedtime didn't realize she
> didn't have a protected left turn and tried to make one just as I arrived at
> the intersection going straight.
>>>>>
>>>>> Her car got the worst of it, the Dakota doesn't look too
> bad from what I could see in the dark. I just tried to drive over her hood like
> a monster truck:
>>>>>
>>>> Hopefully not too bad, but what a pain.
>>>>
>>>> I can't imagine your suspension brackets liked that loading too
> well, hopefully everything is still where it belongs.
>>>> --
>>>> Michael Maskalans
>>>> Rochester NY
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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