Crash Into Me

No, this isn't a tribute to a Dave Matthews song I used to like in high school. As much as I wish this entry was driven by an overwhelming desire to be nostalgic and reminisce about my long-forgotten younger years it's not.

Instead I'll be ranting about how nothing good ever came out of Texas, and how one of said undesirable things thought it'd be a great idea to run a red light.

From what I can gather from his driving apparently red means go down there. Clearly we Yanks are backwards in our ways. He was in the left-hand turning lane which did not have the green seeing as opposing traffic (among this traffic was me) had the green. This didn't faze him though -- he was determined to get where he was going with the utmost efficiency, even if that meant disregarding our admittedly backwards and confusing traffic lights. Fortunately we both weren't going too fast, maybe 10mph each, but we were going fast enough to damage my car pretty well -- 4.4k in damage. It didn't look it, but there was some structural damage to the unibody, things had shifted a bit to the left.

He was driving a rental car from Budget. Uncharacteristically Budget's insurance (typically slow from what I've been told) has already accepted responsibility for everything, so I don't have to pay the deductible and all out of pocket. Quite a refreshing change from the normal horror stories I hear about insurance claims. Progressive has made the whole process as painless as possible. I'm impressed, and much like Amy, can now say I actually like my insurance company.

It's going to take two weeks total to fix my car -- being ready on the 21st of May. Quick, I suppose, for the amount of work they have to do, but still far too long to have to spend in a Chrysler Sebring. Especially with gas prices so high. Ugh.

Posted: May 15, 2007, at lunch time
Tagged: Car

1 Response to “Crash Into Me”

1. Kali said

Made 1 day, 3 hours after the fact

Ouch, that sucks. It's amazing how much damage a seemingly small tap can do.