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fuc&......
where do i even start. i'm still not completely settled down, but I am okay.
I was driving tonite in my winter beater jetta on a highway. I was in the exit lane, doing the speed limit and 2.5 car lengths behind the guy in front of me. As we begin to exit the guy in front of me slows and the gap closes to about 1.5 car lengths, speed 50km/h or less. Out of nowhere a white minivan cuts from the middle of the 4 lane highway over and tries to take the exit, cutting across the hard median and just making the exit. he winds up beside me on the hard shoulder, so we are basically fitting 2 cars on a 1 lane section of road. I honk as he tries to muscle his way into the lane and he slams on the brakes and falls into the line of cars 2 cars behind me.
Problem solved?........wrong.
We take the exit and wind up on an empty 3 lane road heading uphill. The car in front of me immediatly moves over 1 lane and is in the middle lane slightly ahead of me. I remain in the right lane and begin up the hill approx 1.5 car lengths behind the guy who is ahead of me but over one lane (so i'm basically just off his right rear quarter panel).
All of a sudden I see a car behind me serve out into the middle lane and begin flying up the hill beside me, its the white minivan. he pulls along side me, and with nowhere to go due to the car ahead of me purposefully and immediatly cranks his wheel hard right and slams into my drivers side door and left front fender. My car hits the curb to my right and I begin a battle to keep control of the car from either going off the road or shooting across the lanes in front of traffic. After striking the curb the car got up on its 2 right wheels as it came hard back left across the lanes. The car slides back and forth 3 or 4 times skidding and i finally get control back. I begin to slow down to stop, but the minivan takes off up the hill.
I wave and flash my lights and honk but nothing. 2 cars behind me begin to stop.
I realized the guy was running so i drive after him up the hill, where he is now stuck at the top in traffic at a red light.
I got on the phone right away with 911 and gave them the license plate which i could now see and the description of the vehicle.
My car is shaking, the mirror is fucked, and i tail him a few cars back while on the phone with the cops. He tries faking that he is going to take exits while weaving in and out of cars. I gave the police information where he was until the dispatch told me to pull over and wait for the cops.
So i pull over and check out the damage, the whole door and fender of my car are fucked. the alignment is out, the muffller/exhaust sounds like its damaged from when i rode up on the curb, and my right front tire is really badly scraped up from hitting the curb.
Gave all my info to the cops, and they are tracking the guy down. Apparently the car was being borrowed as the registered owner didn't know anything about it.
**** me....i'm so choked right now. Not that I really give a **** about the car, i just cant believe there are people out there that will choose to use their vehicles like a weapon. Im so damn lucky the car didn't roll or strike another car. My driver training that i took through work definetly saved my ass because i would have lost it otherwise. If it had been someone like my gf driving she would have definetly rolled the car as she panic braked.
In hindsight i likely should have stopped, but if i had i wouldn't have gotten the drivers license plate, which would mean this guy would have gotten away with it. I hope the cops throw the book at him, I know I will be speaking with my lawyer tomorrow to find out what other avenues I have outside of what the cops choose to do with him. The guy blatantly rammed my car, for no reason other than being a douche. I dont know how he thought i could let him in or give him any space as there simply wasn't any.
I'll post pics tomorrow when its light out and i can properly inspect the damage when i go check out the car. The car got towed to the VW dealership cause i didn't know where else to send it.
To be honest im surprised the jetta faired as well as it did. Strong little ****** cars. Obviously metal ripples and plastic damage. But i was expecting a hell of a lot worse for how hard I was hit. I'm going to go to the doctor tomorrow morning too, but i dont feel like there is anything wrong with my neck, it was more of a side impact than anything else.
Fast and the Furious meets surburbia....
where do i even start. i'm still not completely settled down, but I am okay.
I was driving tonite in my winter beater jetta on a highway. I was in the exit lane, doing the speed limit and 2.5 car lengths behind the guy in front of me. As we begin to exit the guy in front of me slows and the gap closes to about 1.5 car lengths, speed 50km/h or less. Out of nowhere a white minivan cuts from the middle of the 4 lane highway over and tries to take the exit, cutting across the hard median and just making the exit. he winds up beside me on the hard shoulder, so we are basically fitting 2 cars on a 1 lane section of road. I honk as he tries to muscle his way into the lane and he slams on the brakes and falls into the line of cars 2 cars behind me.
Problem solved?........wrong.
We take the exit and wind up on an empty 3 lane road heading uphill. The car in front of me immediatly moves over 1 lane and is in the middle lane slightly ahead of me. I remain in the right lane and begin up the hill approx 1.5 car lengths behind the guy who is ahead of me but over one lane (so i'm basically just off his right rear quarter panel).
All of a sudden I see a car behind me serve out into the middle lane and begin flying up the hill beside me, its the white minivan. he pulls along side me, and with nowhere to go due to the car ahead of me purposefully and immediatly cranks his wheel hard right and slams into my drivers side door and left front fender. My car hits the curb to my right and I begin a battle to keep control of the car from either going off the road or shooting across the lanes in front of traffic. After striking the curb the car got up on its 2 right wheels as it came hard back left across the lanes. The car slides back and forth 3 or 4 times skidding and i finally get control back. I begin to slow down to stop, but the minivan takes off up the hill.
I wave and flash my lights and honk but nothing. 2 cars behind me begin to stop.
I realized the guy was running so i drive after him up the hill, where he is now stuck at the top in traffic at a red light.
I got on the phone right away with 911 and gave them the license plate which i could now see and the description of the vehicle.
My car is shaking, the mirror is fucked, and i tail him a few cars back while on the phone with the cops. He tries faking that he is going to take exits while weaving in and out of cars. I gave the police information where he was until the dispatch told me to pull over and wait for the cops.
So i pull over and check out the damage, the whole door and fender of my car are fucked. the alignment is out, the muffller/exhaust sounds like its damaged from when i rode up on the curb, and my right front tire is really badly scraped up from hitting the curb.
Gave all my info to the cops, and they are tracking the guy down. Apparently the car was being borrowed as the registered owner didn't know anything about it.
**** me....i'm so choked right now. Not that I really give a **** about the car, i just cant believe there are people out there that will choose to use their vehicles like a weapon. Im so damn lucky the car didn't roll or strike another car. My driver training that i took through work definetly saved my ass because i would have lost it otherwise. If it had been someone like my gf driving she would have definetly rolled the car as she panic braked.
In hindsight i likely should have stopped, but if i had i wouldn't have gotten the drivers license plate, which would mean this guy would have gotten away with it. I hope the cops throw the book at him, I know I will be speaking with my lawyer tomorrow to find out what other avenues I have outside of what the cops choose to do with him. The guy blatantly rammed my car, for no reason other than being a douche. I dont know how he thought i could let him in or give him any space as there simply wasn't any.
I'll post pics tomorrow when its light out and i can properly inspect the damage when i go check out the car. The car got towed to the VW dealership cause i didn't know where else to send it.
To be honest im surprised the jetta faired as well as it did. Strong little ****** cars. Obviously metal ripples and plastic damage. But i was expecting a hell of a lot worse for how hard I was hit. I'm going to go to the doctor tomorrow morning too, but i dont feel like there is anything wrong with my neck, it was more of a side impact than anything else.
Fast and the Furious meets surburbia....
If it's smoken it ain't broken
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