"Butzmark" <me@my.net> wrote in message
news:vavbr1dd0a53v1uae8f7klr49cc425neue@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:46:59 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
> <ancientangler@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>>"Butzmark" <me@my.net> wrote in message
>>news:9niar1hft9qdjl3vdrvgr4jpn1mth3v49s@4ax.com...[color=darkred]
>>> I was rear ended by a drunk driver Christmas Eve. I'm still
>>> waiting for the official word but several people from the cop to the
>>> tow driver have told me it's totaled. It's an '04 Tacoma 4x4 Extracab
>>> TRD, 6 cyl, auto, with less than 10,000 miles on it. It didn't have a
>>> scratch or parking lot ding on it. I was stopped at a light behind a
>>> Ram pickup when hit from behind by a mid-eighties S-10. I was knocked
>>> around and have a little whiplash but came out OK. I suspect that the
>>> drunk didn't have insurance so my claim will be with my own insurance
>>> company. Anybody have any advice for dealing with them? How about a
>>> price on the truck?
>>>
>>> Thanks to all
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>>
>>What do you mean by "suspect that the drunk didn't have insurance"???
>>Didn't
>>the cop check his papers and tell you? Call back the cop who should've
>>done
>>that.
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>
> The drunk had a small scalp cut at the hairline so they took him away
> in an ambulance. I'll find out from the police report soon. It has to
> go through channels and the holidays are dragging it out. When he got
> out of his truck he wanted to talk about his trip to New Orleans, no
> sorry ,,nothing. He did say that he was talking on the phone to his
> girlfriend and didn't see me...kind of like it was my fault for being
> there.
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It's amazing - people are robbed, or get into accidents, and the information
you need afterward somehow vanishes into the sky. Then, you receive the 11th
carbon copy of a report written in scribble with a soft pencil, by a cop who
couldn't write the word "Help" in 10 foot high letters on beach sand, if his
life depended on it.
