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Re: My '04 Tacoma totaled....insurance advice?
"J. A. Mc." <jaSPAMc@gbr.online.com> wrote in message
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> 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
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>>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:46:59 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
>>> <ancientangler@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Butzmark" <me@my.net> wrote in message
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>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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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I have no idea. Is a lawyer something that comes out of the end of a gun
when you pull the trigger? Is a "seizure" the end result?
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