How I hate car accidents..., UPDATED with Police Report Options

[saleeka]

Tonight driving home from my parents house I had the misfortune of getting hit in my Accord... So I'm driving on a 2 lane 35 mph road, with a seperate left turn lane. As I approach the light to make a left turn, it is green (no arrow), so I procede to get out into the intersection a bit to make the turn. Light stays green for a good amount of time, but too much traffic is coming so I cannot make the turn. Light begins to turn yellow, and there is still cars coming thru, so again I wait. I see the light turn red on me, and there is still a chrysler minivan driving towards me. I still wait. I then see him slow the van by noticing the front of the hood dip down a bit indicating braking. I proceded to make my left turn, and before I can realize what has happened, my car is hit on the front side of the passenegr side by this van, and my car has rotated about 90 degres in the direction of the van. Hood is smashed in, front bumper cracked, both front fenders destroyed or warped, cant open the driver side door, and there is body metal lodged in the front wheel well.... Cars everywhere on all sides of the intersection see this, so I procede to coax my car to the side of the road to get out of the way, van does the same. Call the police, get there, wait for them to talk to me because they went to the van first. Their passengers are 2 people my age or slightly older, man driving, and a female passenger. as they are talking I learn of two things. First- the driver has NO licence... Great, just great... Then, after this, I learn that its her van, and its not insured!!! Needless to say, I was quite angry about the situation now. Told the police the exact same thing as above, clarified a few details with them, and yeah... The only logical explanation to as how hard he hit me would be that he started to stop for the light, and then prolly thought that he could make it so he got back on the gas, and then saw me get smashed into... I'm angry about this because my insurance is now going to go up because these people thought it to be ok to have no insurance on this van, and even better, have someone without a license drive it who enjoys running through red lights... I had to get that off my chest, but seriously... It makes me that much more angry because of the disregard for the law by these people by having no license and no insurance in a state where thats against the law

This post has been edited by saleeka: Aug 9, 2006 - 2:23 PM

[saleeka]

Update-

so i got a copy of the police report today, and it's pretty much what i suspected it would be.

"on 8-1-06 at 1658 hours I was dispatched to the location of 80th st and east point douglas rd on report of a crash with no injuries. upon arrival i spoke with driver of unit 1 (my car), later id'd by mn dl as Chris irber. Irber advised me he was traveling e/b on 80th st waiting to make a left hand turn onto east point douglas rd. irber stated the light was green as he was waiting in the middle of the intersection to make his left hand turn. Irber advised me the light then turned yellow. irber stated he saw unit 2coming w/b on 80th st and though the vehicle was going to stop. both vehicles then collided in the intersection. severe damage to right front damage of unit 1. no injuries.

I then spoke with the driver of unit 2, who was later verbally id'd as T.D. D advised me he did not have a drivers license and that he was revoked. The owner of the vehicle, and also the passenger, advised me that she did not have insurance on the vehicle. D as well as the passenger both stated to me that they were traveling w/b on 80th st. D stated he ran the red light causing him to hit unit 1. driver was issued citation for DAR and owner of vehicle issued citation for No insurance. vehicle was towed to owners residence here in CG. Severe damage no left front of vehicle. No injuries.

N/F. Case closed."

So I feel better about not getting totally screwed over in this situation, now that the the police report explains the situation truthfully Hopefully I'll get my deductible back too, with a bit of luck. now to get the accord fixed... If I get a chance i'll post up pics of the damage in the next day or two...