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HaRuMaN:
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My fiance and I were in a car accident Tuesday night... we were at a stoplight and the light turned green so I started to pull out. Next thing I know I hear honking, and look over to see a '74 Camaro sliding through the snow right at me. No time to react.
Fortuantely, no one was hurt, even though I got a bump on the head. The bad thing is that since we were driving a '99 Honda Civic, he totaled our car. Looked like not even a scratch on his.
This couldn't have come at a worse time. Now we have to get her another car and have no money for it. She's a teacher so she gets paid peanuts, and I'm a college student and don't graduate until May. We are getting married in April, and moving to Phoenix in June.
Argh. My head hurts.
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danny_galaga:
good that youre ok. now, if i were you id be on the lookout for a 74 camaro to drive during winter ;D
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on February 08, 2007, 07:44:10 am ---
good that youre ok. now, if i were you id be on the lookout for a 74 camaro to drive during winter ;D
--- End quote ---
Yeah, no kidding, except that now his insurance rates are gonna go up since he was found at fault, and admitted fault, both to the police and insurance company. I'm just hoping we get enough enough money from his insurance to make a reasonable down-payment on something else.
ChadTower:
A 99 Civic is still worth a couple thousand at least if it's in decent shape. That's what I drive and the Civic retains its resale value for quite a while. You'll be looking at $2000-3000 probably unless the thing had real problems or 250,000 miles or something.
I suspect the bigger issue may end up being the amount of time it takes to get that money. Push their insurance company to pay for a rental replacement for you, since it was his fault and his insurance is paying, often times demanding a rental will either get you the rental or motivate them to get you your compensation faster.
Did the collision at least mess up the guy's mullet?
HaRuMaN:
Well, the car was in good shape until the accident. However, it did have 243,000 miles on it. Oh, and we already pushed their insurance into a rental replacement, we picked it up yesterday. The adjustor's already been out and looked at the car, he made the decision to total it, now we need to find out how much they're gonna give us for it. I think we find that out today.
I think we're gonna end up getting a used car for her for now... a new one would just be too much strain on the budget.
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