Hit and Run

Bmw 325i 7803 · Sep 21, 2004

In traffic on the BQE getting off from heavy traffic my car is stationary and boom some asswhipe in a beat up 90's Taxi Lincoln towncar rearends me at 5 mph. (I was stopped for 5 seconds and the idiot cant figure out the car ahead is stationary...) So I get right out of the car to yell at the idiot, he simply says "that aint nothing" backs up an inch and goes to pull out hitting and swiping my car AGAIN to run away! I go for him and he tries to run over me and my door, which I luckily pulled towards me or I'd have REAL $$$$ Damage. Then the cars behind dont even stop to witness anything, they just drive around and away. I call 911 and the operator tells me not to leave so after moving 20ft forward I stop and wait. (Before I play demolition derby with a beat up $500 lincoln taxi cab whos GONE, I can guess he turned right off the exit and onto the next ave, but can't say If I followed I'd have found him. assholes behind him were in such a hurry that by the time I got into the car and moving theres 4-5 cars between me and him)

Sure enough a police van comes tells me to pull off the highway and follow them, they didn't even have accident reports I gave them a description of the car, the driver and the plate on the car. They sent me to the precinct a few blocks away, and [?|]

AMAZINGLY IT TURNS OUT I NEED TO FILE A CIVILIAN ACCIDENT REPORT AND MAIL IT. Meaning I sue myself and put in the VIN of my car so carfax??? can document it. My rates go up, and this guy can do it to someone else. Conclusion: Minor hit and run is LEGAL in NYC, so go out buy a beater and have some fun! [bash]

Now my 330i has a REAL scratched up bumper and swiped on the left... I sure cant clean the marks off this one. Im going to post pictures of it, now I need to know how much it costs to repaint the swipe on the bumper and if those punches/gouges in the bumper plastic can be fixed or sprayed and how much. Who knows? BMW haters...Brooklyn must have become a ghetto "I didn't see anything and I'm not stopping" great NYC attitude. Or we can try "BMW is rich no need to stop, we stick together" -Beater car club of america. What bullshit...

xmas63 · Sep 21, 2004

Sorry to hear. That really sucks.

It always amazes me that so many people in NYC have a "thats-what-bumpers-are-there-for" attitude! I mean, how many times have you seen people hitting other cars' bumpers when they park in the street? It's almost like they're taught that this is part of the standard procedure when you parallel park.

///M SPEED · Sep 21, 2004

xmas63 said:

Well you need parking guides, right? Some people have no respect for others property. It's a shame. I got in a hit-and-run just about 2 months ago in my SUV. It's a long story that maybe I will share later......

****ing assholes, cuse the #%#@$.....

^^^ sorry Tom, I should have edited that myself.......

MrElussive · Sep 21, 2004

Oh man that sucks! What a dipshit! You should have gone after the guy...did you get his full license plate or just some of it? Even a few letters really helps you out.

bmwrocks · Sep 22, 2004

Man that blows. If you gave them the plate doesn't that help? Surely they can trace the plate to the owner?

Don't you just hate the "If it doesn't involve me, I ain't gettin involved" attitude the last 20 years of lawsuits and road rage has brought about? Do you know if you stop to help someone who is badly injured and do something that they can prove made them worse or die, that you can be sued? At least that's what I heard. So this attitude has trickled down to EVERYTHING including fender-bender witnessing.

Imagine stopping to help someone as a witness only to get caught up in a road rage shootout where you end up dying for butting into a psychos business.

Kirby · Sep 22, 2004

bmwrocks said:

Yea, it's crazy but if you stop and help a person who is injured YOU CAN BE SUED if you make their condition worse. Of course, a litiguous attorney could try to convince a jury that you caused additional injury EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T! So most people, unfortunately, look the other way.

Some states had to pass a "GOOD SAMARITAN" law, but in most cases it applies ONLY to trained medical personnel (EMTs, doctors, nurses) who render aid. As goofy as it sounds, lawyers were suing medical professionals for injuries that occured during rescue.

Consider this: A person is in a terrible accident, their face is horribly mangled and they are suffocating, trapped in the car. The EMT cuts an emergency airway and accidently damages the vocal cords. Should the EMT have taken this risk and saved the person, or let them suffocate for fear of lawsuit due to possibly damaging the vocal cords?

Any reasonable person sees the logic, but a litiguous attorney sees LAWSUIT=$$$. The Good Samaritan law prevents lawsuits in this case, but only to trained professionals.

MrElussive · Sep 22, 2004

Kirby, I believe the Good Samaritan Law also applies to anybody who CAN help, as long as there is NO personal risk involved to help them out.

It is kind of a tough issue because right now there is no winning. You can try to help a person out, but you can get sued for "making his/her condition worse." But if you look the other way, then you can get sued for ignoring the "Good Samaritan" law. There is also the natural instinct, such as let's say you're part of a crowd of 100 people on the street and one person trips and brakes their leg and needs help. With 100 other people around you, it's natural "shared responsibility" where you naturally think, "Oh well somebody is going to help the injured person, so it doesn't have to be me" But if you're on the street with one other person and that person trips and brakes his/her leg, you're naturally going to assume full responsibility and you'll do everything you can to help the person out. Weird stuff, huh? I learned this in a Psychology class in Freshman year of college, too bad my professor was such a miserable bastard.

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