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Mom and i had to run an errand this afternoon (actually it should have been done yesterday but she started feeling sick while we were out so we cut our errands short) so out we left right after 3 this afternoon.
Ran by the drugstore to get a script that was ready (bad part of automatic calls . . . with 3 people in the house who use the same pharmacy, the call doesn't speicify who it's for . . . only that there is a prescription ready) so we get there and I have to get out of the car and go inside (drive thru was damaged a few weeks ago and still not open ....GRRRRRR.)
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Come back, we drop it off at home, as Mom has to use the bathroom (again.) I waited out in the car while she went in, and a few minutes later she came back and we left out again.
Headed west on Wendover, turned off onto the exit for Summit Avenue, which takes u to a small side road between the Golden Arche and Grill Out.
We both saw the car . . . a black Malibu sedan (new looking) come flying up to the exit of the Grill Out. Mom tried to move the car to the left (Malibu was coming from the right) and the damn idiot kept coming!!!!
BAM!
Yep . . . car got hit.
Guy driving the Malibu (young guy, looked like mid 20's maybe and his buddy, who I barely recall looking not much older or younger) pulled his car back and got out. Took a look at the damage to his car (smashed up his front end and Mom think she heard his radiator snap. Our little Toyota had damage on the left front corner and the hood is smushed back a bit,) looked at us, said "Sorry" and jumped back in his vehicle and hauled ass across the road into the Golden Arches parking lot!
You got it folks, . . . hit and run. As in we were hit, and he ran like Hell.
Mom tore off through the parking lot behind him while I was opening my phone (it had fallen from my purse's side pocket and into the floorboard and I had jut gotten it before she decided to turn into the parking lot after him)
Car crossed over the Golden Arches parking area and next door into the mini mart. Traffic was coming from both directions across Summit Avenue (major road in Greensboro) so the Malibu was stuck waiting to cross over while I leaned out of the car w/my phone and *snap*
Got your plate, Asshole. You are MINE now.
We got to Summit Avenue and pulled into the pawn shop parking lot to take a look at the damage (I took a pic of it there) and this is where we were headed to begin with when the mess happened (have a payment to make there that was already a day late and didn't want to go into arrears.)
Mom decides we need to go straight home and park the car (it's still driveable)b/c her chair is in the back yard and she can't get out of the car w/out having to sit down (sucks not having a vehicle big enough for a lift for her chair but I digress) so we head straight home, shaking our heads, still shaking like leaves and trying to think about why the young man took off like he did.
Numerous reasons why someone would flee the scene of an accident.
No insurance (not likely since the car appeared to be one of the newer models and if you've got a newer vehicle, most likely it's financed meaning insurance is mandatory)
Car is registered to someone else (likely possibility)
Outstanding warrants downtown (possible)
Revoked/suspended license (possible, especially if the car is registered to someone else.)
I run inside the house and get Mom' phone book, reading glasses and cordless house phone and take outside to her. Not sure who we need to call first, she call her insurance agent, who walks her through what needed to be done, which is call the police first and get a report. Once we have the report, Mom can file the claim and they can take it from there.
Next call from the phone was to 911 to report the hit and run. Mom handed the phone to me and I explained to the dispatcher (from the best I could recall ATM) what happened and gave her the description and license plate of the vehicle that hit us. Dispatcher reads back the info and I confirm it. She then tells us that she will relay it to the officers and someone will be by.
Officer showed up a short time later at the front door. We were on the front porch, waiting and took him around back and showed him the damage to the car and provided him w/Mom's driver's license and insurance card. He also noted the plate number on her car and went to his vehicle to run the plate information I gave him of the other vehicle from the photo.
A few moments later, he came back with a printed copy of the report (he still has to go to the other party that the other car is registered to and get their side of things.)
Mom and I were looking at the report. They have Mom's name wrong, for starters but we have a report number that our insurance agent will need. And we instantly saw one reason why the young man ran like he did.
The license plate of the other vehicle is registered to a woman. I"m thinking either mother or grandmother (officer said it was an older lady.
I was also right about it being a newer car. The car is a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu sedan. Not likely that the insurance is lapsed on that car.
Young punk is not having a good evening, to say the least. I would so love to be a fly on the wall at that address this evening . . . .
And no, Mom and I are both fine. I think after 2 glasses of wine I'm starting to feel a little bit better.
Mom and i had to run an errand this afternoon (actually it should have been done yesterday but she started feeling sick while we were out so we cut our errands short) so out we left right after 3 this afternoon.
Ran by the drugstore to get a script that was ready (bad part of automatic calls . . . with 3 people in the house who use the same pharmacy, the call doesn't speicify who it's for . . . only that there is a prescription ready) so we get there and I have to get out of the car and go inside (drive thru was damaged a few weeks ago and still not open ....GRRRRRR.)
..
Come back, we drop it off at home, as Mom has to use the bathroom (again.) I waited out in the car while she went in, and a few minutes later she came back and we left out again.
Headed west on Wendover, turned off onto the exit for Summit Avenue, which takes u to a small side road between the Golden Arche and Grill Out.
We both saw the car . . . a black Malibu sedan (new looking) come flying up to the exit of the Grill Out. Mom tried to move the car to the left (Malibu was coming from the right) and the damn idiot kept coming!!!!
BAM!
Yep . . . car got hit.
Guy driving the Malibu (young guy, looked like mid 20's maybe and his buddy, who I barely recall looking not much older or younger) pulled his car back and got out. Took a look at the damage to his car (smashed up his front end and Mom think she heard his radiator snap. Our little Toyota had damage on the left front corner and the hood is smushed back a bit,) looked at us, said "Sorry" and jumped back in his vehicle and hauled ass across the road into the Golden Arches parking lot!
You got it folks, . . . hit and run. As in we were hit, and he ran like Hell.
Mom tore off through the parking lot behind him while I was opening my phone (it had fallen from my purse's side pocket and into the floorboard and I had jut gotten it before she decided to turn into the parking lot after him)
Car crossed over the Golden Arches parking area and next door into the mini mart. Traffic was coming from both directions across Summit Avenue (major road in Greensboro) so the Malibu was stuck waiting to cross over while I leaned out of the car w/my phone and *snap*
Got your plate, Asshole. You are MINE now.
We got to Summit Avenue and pulled into the pawn shop parking lot to take a look at the damage (I took a pic of it there) and this is where we were headed to begin with when the mess happened (have a payment to make there that was already a day late and didn't want to go into arrears.)
Mom decides we need to go straight home and park the car (it's still driveable)b/c her chair is in the back yard and she can't get out of the car w/out having to sit down (sucks not having a vehicle big enough for a lift for her chair but I digress) so we head straight home, shaking our heads, still shaking like leaves and trying to think about why the young man took off like he did.
Numerous reasons why someone would flee the scene of an accident.
No insurance (not likely since the car appeared to be one of the newer models and if you've got a newer vehicle, most likely it's financed meaning insurance is mandatory)
Car is registered to someone else (likely possibility)
Outstanding warrants downtown (possible)
Revoked/suspended license (possible, especially if the car is registered to someone else.)
I run inside the house and get Mom' phone book, reading glasses and cordless house phone and take outside to her. Not sure who we need to call first, she call her insurance agent, who walks her through what needed to be done, which is call the police first and get a report. Once we have the report, Mom can file the claim and they can take it from there.
Next call from the phone was to 911 to report the hit and run. Mom handed the phone to me and I explained to the dispatcher (from the best I could recall ATM) what happened and gave her the description and license plate of the vehicle that hit us. Dispatcher reads back the info and I confirm it. She then tells us that she will relay it to the officers and someone will be by.
Officer showed up a short time later at the front door. We were on the front porch, waiting and took him around back and showed him the damage to the car and provided him w/Mom's driver's license and insurance card. He also noted the plate number on her car and went to his vehicle to run the plate information I gave him of the other vehicle from the photo.
A few moments later, he came back with a printed copy of the report (he still has to go to the other party that the other car is registered to and get their side of things.)
Mom and I were looking at the report. They have Mom's name wrong, for starters but we have a report number that our insurance agent will need. And we instantly saw one reason why the young man ran like he did.
The license plate of the other vehicle is registered to a woman. I"m thinking either mother or grandmother (officer said it was an older lady.
I was also right about it being a newer car. The car is a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu sedan. Not likely that the insurance is lapsed on that car.
Young punk is not having a good evening, to say the least. I would so love to be a fly on the wall at that address this evening . . . .
And no, Mom and I are both fine. I think after 2 glasses of wine I'm starting to feel a little bit better.
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