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Don't know how many people are hanging around here nowadays. But, yesterday I was rear ended (twice) in a four car wreck.
I can't get it out of my head that the investigating HP officer made the wrong call.
On a two lane road, a vehicle trying to make a left turn stopped, waiting for oncoming traffic.
The guy in front of me stopped. I stopped.
The woman behind me, driving a Nissan, didn't stop and rear-ended me, pushing my car into the old pickup in front of me. That second impact was more of a bump (not hard).
Then, a Ford pickup hit the Nissan, shoving it hard into my car for a second time. Both impacts to my car where hard, violent hits.
My car is drivable, although the tailgate has been damaged. The Nissan was also driven away. The Ford truck was undrivable and towed away.
What's been going through my mind is that I feel the investigating FHP officer made a mistake. The Ford truck driver was ticketed, but the Nissan driver was not. And she definitely hit my car before the truck hit her.
Now, I'm considering contacting the FHP on the matter. What say y'all? Should I just let it lay? Kinda irks me the Nissan driver gets off scot-free when she plainly rammed me before she was struck. I don't know how I could prove that, other than that I would swear in court that I received two distinct impacts, separated by at least a second. But, if going to court is what it would take, I'm not so sure I'd want to go that far.
I can't get it out of my head that the investigating HP officer made the wrong call.
On a two lane road, a vehicle trying to make a left turn stopped, waiting for oncoming traffic.
The guy in front of me stopped. I stopped.
The woman behind me, driving a Nissan, didn't stop and rear-ended me, pushing my car into the old pickup in front of me. That second impact was more of a bump (not hard).
Then, a Ford pickup hit the Nissan, shoving it hard into my car for a second time. Both impacts to my car where hard, violent hits.
My car is drivable, although the tailgate has been damaged. The Nissan was also driven away. The Ford truck was undrivable and towed away.
What's been going through my mind is that I feel the investigating FHP officer made a mistake. The Ford truck driver was ticketed, but the Nissan driver was not. And she definitely hit my car before the truck hit her.
Now, I'm considering contacting the FHP on the matter. What say y'all? Should I just let it lay? Kinda irks me the Nissan driver gets off scot-free when she plainly rammed me before she was struck. I don't know how I could prove that, other than that I would swear in court that I received two distinct impacts, separated by at least a second. But, if going to court is what it would take, I'm not so sure I'd want to go that far.