ahh damn. Well that sucks.

 

Aw NOOO Chelsea!! First mine gets smashed by a truck last year and now yours, damm. Hope the damage is minimal enough to her back on the road, best of luck I'm sorry to hear this happened.

 

i dunno if im evenn going to amplified tomorrow, if i do go presales are probably hella bank right now.

-Ave

 

Damn that sucks. I don't see understand why people don't drive slower in residential areas. It's like, What are you in the hurry for? If you're late, you're late. Plus, it's Friday. arrghh...lol

 

Exactly! My street isn't even wide enough for two cars; he shouldn't have been smashing like an assshat. And I was barely creeping out at the top of the slope into the dip out of the driveway, as not to scrape my front bumper, so I was going pretty slow. Ughhh. He left tire skid marks over 20 ft long, so he must have been going fast?

 

wow, that stinks... hope you get it fixed soon. i'd totally blame the other driver. he/she should have been driving at a reasonably slow enough speed in a residential street where if someone backs out of their driveway, he/she should have enough time to come to a complete stop, safely.

what street is this on, btw? you live on northside?

 

Yep the North side, right off Solano Ave., basically in Albany. Both police depts came. >_<

 

if the other driver left 20ft long skid marks they'll probably devide the blame . . . pics? I don't think I've even ever seen 20ft skid marks . . .

 

He's probably over on a bimmer forum talking about how some scatterbrained girl backed out in front of him and totaled his ride.

If you back out in front of someone you probably just weren't paying attention. It doesn't matter if he was doing 25 or 45 it's not like you wouldn't have seen him if you looked or were being carefull. The argument that he was going too fast to stop is obvious...he hit you, but saying that he was going too fast for the street is probably arguing a weak position. Did the cops come and take photos of skid marks? Did the guy admit he was going a little fast? If neither of those 2 happened good luck getting any of the blame on him.

 

The cops did come, which means thewy probabnly measured the skidmarks which they can use to estimate speed, if he was speeding it should be at least partially his fault.

Sucks to hear about your car.

 

Howdy. I've seen 120 ft skidmarks leading up to where my '88 RX was desgtroyed.

Make sure you take pics of the skid marks too just in case!! There's the only real proof (besides the damage) that he was cookin' down your street. Did you hear his car skidding? Take a stroll back to where the skid marks started, and you'll get an idea of where/when he actually saw you (some time before the skid marks of course). Prolly give you a better idea of what was really going on there. Good luck, my brp gm6 hasn't been the same after my issues earlier this year. Hope it comes out nice for you!

 

I immediately depressed the clutch and brake because I heard the squealing for a few seconds before the impact but not in enough time to shift into first and roll up over the dip back into the driveway. The damage stops right around the gas tank door.

Scatterbrained? Ouch.

 

ignore the n00b

 

n00b? ouch

Yeah, maybe scatterbrained was a little too far, but I've thought worse of people who have pulled out in front of me or rear-ended me. I was trying to portray this guy's feelings/thoughts. There shouldn't be such a thing as an accident..we should all call them crashes. Glad nobody was hurt, and if the guy was speeding then, you might have a hard time proving it with a 20ft skid mark (not actually very bad)



That is what the CHP and most other traffic investigators use to determine relative vehicle speed. Using that equation and the 20ft skidmark estimation if you assume the vehicle was going 20mph at time of impact after breaking/skidding(enough to cause significant damage) and the pavement was dry and ungraded/sloped then the vehicle that hit you was initially traveling approximately 34-35mph. If they say the road was wet/sloped or that the impact speed was lower (10mph) then the equation drops the initial velocity drastically.

A car traveling at 21mph leaves 20ft skidmarks to stop completely if that tells you anything. It will basically come down to how fast they think the car was traveling on impact.

 

ouch.. sorry to hear that happened.
makes me glad i live at the end of a culdesac in the sticks.