Smartphone's and the not so smart

[Rocket Scientist]

About a week and a half ago. Coming home from work (I take the old two lane highway, never any traffic). As I approached a down hill area, I noticed something in my lane. As I got closer it became apparent there was a pick up truck fully in my lane coming at me. Thank goodness I was in my car as I had to go crashing into the ditch at 55 mph. I'm sure it was only seconds but it seemed like a long time I was crashing through the brush. I remember leaning back in the seat so the air bag wouldn't smack me. Thankfully missed all the trees and the the car slid sideways and put the front tires back up near the road right before I would have sideswiped a metal "curve" sign. The ***** in the truck didn't even stop. Fortunately I wasn't stuck, so I chased her ass down. She stopped as soon as she saw me flying up behind her. Quick snapped a picture of her plate in case she took off and called the police. I avoided talking to her because I was so pissed. Turns out she was trying to answer her fugging phone. She got a ticket for careless driving. I told the officer she fled the scene, and based on her account, he agreed, but I guess maybe that would be hard to prove. So my Challenger is still in the body shop. It didn't get bent but the front and right side got scuffed up. If I had been stuck she would have gotten away scot free, and I would have had a single car, at fault accident on my record. Now had I been on the Rocket........

 

[Steel]

Glad to hear that you are ok brother.

 

[Gerald]

About a week and a half ago. Coming home from work (I take the old two lane highway, never any traffic). As I approached a down hill area, I noticed something in my lane. As I got closer it became apparent there was a pick up truck fully in my lane coming at me. Thank goodness I was in my car as I had to go crashing into the ditch at 55 mph. I'm sure it was only seconds but it seemed like a long time I was crashing through the brush. I remember leaning back in the seat so the air bag wouldn't smack me. Thankfully missed all the trees and the the car slid sideways and put the front tires back up near the road right before I would have sideswiped a metal "curve" sign. The ***** in the truck didn't even stop. Fortunately I wasn't stuck, so I chased her ass down. She stopped as soon as she saw me flying up behind her. Quick snapped a picture of her plate in case she took off and called the police. I avoided talking to her because I was so pissed. Turns out she was trying to answer her fugging phone. She got a ticket for careless driving. I told the officer she fled the scene, and based on her account, he agreed, but I guess maybe that would be hard to prove. So my Challenger is still in the body shop. It didn't get bent but the front and right side got scuffed up. If I had been stuck she would have gotten away scot free, and I would have had a single car, at fault accident on my record. Now had I been on the Rocket........

Glad it wasn't worse than it was, happy you weren't on your bike.

 

[Fingers]

Sphincterheads are everywhere.

 

[Old N' Grumpy]

Glad you are ok Fred. I like the fact that after you went thru all that you still had your wits about you to go after and chase that silly beotch and she got a ticket too!

 

[Jag]

This is the hooray for me, ***u society we live in! Their phone call/text/surfing the net is more important than somebody’s life!

 

[1K9]

About a week and a half ago. Coming home from work (I take the old two lane highway, never any traffic). As I approached a down hill area, I noticed something in my lane. As I got closer it became apparent there was a pick up truck fully in my lane coming at me. Thank goodness I was in my car as I had to go crashing into the ditch at 55 mph. I'm sure it was only seconds but it seemed like a long time I was crashing through the brush. I remember leaning back in the seat so the air bag wouldn't smack me. Thankfully missed all the trees and the the car slid sideways and put the front tires back up near the road right before I would have sideswiped a metal "curve" sign. The ***** in the truck didn't even stop. Fortunately I wasn't stuck, so I chased her ass down. She stopped as soon as she saw me flying up behind her. Quick snapped a picture of her plate in case she took off and called the police. I avoided talking to her because I was so pissed. Turns out she was trying to answer her fugging phone. She got a ticket for careless driving. I told the officer she fled the scene, and based on her account, he agreed, but I guess maybe that would be hard to prove. So my Challenger is still in the body shop. It didn't get bent but the front and right side got scuffed up. If I had been stuck she would have gotten away scot free, and I would have had a single car, at fault accident on my record. Now had I been on the Rocket........

Insurance companies could fix this ezzy. Crash operating the cell phone=no coverage. The polistate can destroy your life if they catch you sipping a beer in the car but someone can kill or cause immense damage while driving operating a cell phone... no problem.

 

[Old N' Grumpy]

Insurance companies could fix this ezzy. Crash operating the cell phone=no coverage. The polistate can destroy your life if they catch you sipping a beer in the car but someone can kill or cause immense damage while driving operating a cell phone... no problem.

Cell phone companies have too much money and power in DC (read district of criminals) to allow the "simple loss of life" interfere with their profits!

 

[atlsrt44]

Insurance companies could fix this ezzy. Crash operating the cell phone=no coverage. The polistate can destroy your life if they catch you sipping a beer in the car but someone can kill or cause immense damage while driving operating a cell phone... no problem.

Hard to prove

 

[scot in exile]

Fred meet Scott---Scott meet Fred between the both of you we have some horror stories to tell