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Re: My '04 Tacoma totaled....insurance advice?
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:34:13 GMT, "Doug Kanter" <ancientangler@hotmail.com>
found these unused words floating about:
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>"Butzmark" <me@my.net> wrote in message
>news:vavbr1dd0a53v1uae8f7klr49cc425neue@4ax.com...[color=green]
>> 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...
>>>> 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.
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Hope your state has a 'seizure law' applicable for uninsured drivers. House,
other cars, etc.
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