Cherry Picker
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OK I've got a bit of a dilemma here I'm trying to find the best course of action. If there is one. Personally I think I'm just going to have to take it on the nose and write it up to a screwed up legal system but I thought I see what you think. And police/sheriff officers out there? Lawyers/Judges?
OK so here I am driving my Mustang down a 4 lane (2 north 2 south) and I pull up to the stop light and a nice vette is just beside me. I look over and give him a thumbs up but his windows are too tinted to see anything. I'm on the inside lane and he is on the outside lane. Light changes and we drive on. We get about a block away and I hear his engine come to life and his super charger start to whine and next thing I know I have a Corvette on the front of my pony. I'm like WTH and hit my brakes and stop. He spins on across the lanes clear to the other side where he hits a pickup coming the other direction in the far lane on the other side of the roads.
We get out and I ask him what the H happened? I was at a total loss. He replied with an "I don't know" He then said we needed to get our cars out of the road. I told him shouldn't we leave them where they are until the police get here to see what happened? he again said no we need to get out of the road. I should have known better but I was still kind of lost as to what just happened.
We pull in to a parking lot right next to where the accident happened and called the cops. Several times when I asked what happened, he tried to say that I'm the one who lost control. Of course I'd say no I don't think so look at your car. His car had rubber from my tire on the back 1/4 panel just in front of his rear wheel. I was still in my lane and his car was two lanes away on the other side of the road.
Well the police show up and right off the bat I know I'm in trouble because the office starts talking with Jeff, the driver of the Vette, about what happened the night before. They were obviously acquaintances. Never a good sign. They never even went to look at the tracks on the road where the accident happened. The office asked me what happened and all I could tell her was I have no idea. I was driving along and next thing I knew I had a Vette on the front of my car so I hit my brakes and stopped.
The out come was she told"Jeff" you can go on home. She told me I was going to get a citation. I asked for what and why isn't "Jeff" getting a citation?. She just gave me some dumb !!!! about standard procedure and it was "not an admission of guilt". Although I'm not an idiot I know what it was for. The ticket was for Inattentive Driving. Basically meaning I wasn't paying attention and caused the accident. I didn't argue because I know where that leads.
I go to court on the 4th. I know she issued me the ticket knowing that the judge would consider I was the cause of the accident because I got the citation. I was smart enough to go back the next morning and got lots of pictures showing the car in the far right lane, Jeff, lost control and came in my lane next to it and hit me, then had enough momentum to cross the lanes and hit a pick up coming the other way in the far lane. I'm hoping I'll get an honest judge, but I realize that is pretty much an oxymoron isn't it?
Anyway. My poor DOMINO, the name given to my Shelby, gets repaired on the 2nd but will now always carry the record of having been in an accident. I'm also afraid this guy is going to get off Scott free just because he is a friend of the officer. Here are some pictures.
OK so here I am driving my Mustang down a 4 lane (2 north 2 south) and I pull up to the stop light and a nice vette is just beside me. I look over and give him a thumbs up but his windows are too tinted to see anything. I'm on the inside lane and he is on the outside lane. Light changes and we drive on. We get about a block away and I hear his engine come to life and his super charger start to whine and next thing I know I have a Corvette on the front of my pony. I'm like WTH and hit my brakes and stop. He spins on across the lanes clear to the other side where he hits a pickup coming the other direction in the far lane on the other side of the roads.
We get out and I ask him what the H happened? I was at a total loss. He replied with an "I don't know" He then said we needed to get our cars out of the road. I told him shouldn't we leave them where they are until the police get here to see what happened? he again said no we need to get out of the road. I should have known better but I was still kind of lost as to what just happened.
We pull in to a parking lot right next to where the accident happened and called the cops. Several times when I asked what happened, he tried to say that I'm the one who lost control. Of course I'd say no I don't think so look at your car. His car had rubber from my tire on the back 1/4 panel just in front of his rear wheel. I was still in my lane and his car was two lanes away on the other side of the road.
Well the police show up and right off the bat I know I'm in trouble because the office starts talking with Jeff, the driver of the Vette, about what happened the night before. They were obviously acquaintances. Never a good sign. They never even went to look at the tracks on the road where the accident happened. The office asked me what happened and all I could tell her was I have no idea. I was driving along and next thing I knew I had a Vette on the front of my car so I hit my brakes and stopped.
The out come was she told"Jeff" you can go on home. She told me I was going to get a citation. I asked for what and why isn't "Jeff" getting a citation?. She just gave me some dumb !!!! about standard procedure and it was "not an admission of guilt". Although I'm not an idiot I know what it was for. The ticket was for Inattentive Driving. Basically meaning I wasn't paying attention and caused the accident. I didn't argue because I know where that leads.
I go to court on the 4th. I know she issued me the ticket knowing that the judge would consider I was the cause of the accident because I got the citation. I was smart enough to go back the next morning and got lots of pictures showing the car in the far right lane, Jeff, lost control and came in my lane next to it and hit me, then had enough momentum to cross the lanes and hit a pick up coming the other way in the far lane. I'm hoping I'll get an honest judge, but I realize that is pretty much an oxymoron isn't it?
Anyway. My poor DOMINO, the name given to my Shelby, gets repaired on the 2nd but will now always carry the record of having been in an accident. I'm also afraid this guy is going to get off Scott free just because he is a friend of the officer. Here are some pictures.
