My '09 GMC was brand-new, I had made
one payment on it. A female on the phone rammed me at a FL Turnpike entry. She was in a Taurus, and my hitch gutted her front end thru the radiator and condenser. My bed was pushed-into my cab. Under $4K to get it back, She gave the FL Highway Patrol trooper and me a fake insurance card. I found that out when I called the company, and they said, "wrong number, wrong number sequence, nobody at that address with us!" I got my truck back fixed by my insurance. Awhile later I got a check from my insurance co for the deductible. They got it from the female.
A few weeks later, I was about a mile from the scene of that accident, and an elderly male was trying to turn right. He was directly behind me. Instead of waiting for the light we were stopped at to cycle, he just kept creeping-forward, trying to turn and drive down the swale, apparently, until he hit my truck. This was the week I got back my truck from the
first accident. A motorcycle cop yelled at me for leaving my truck to berate the elderly driver, who was bewildered, and who apparently didn't think he had done anything wrong. I wanted to make sure this old guy would pull-over to exchange info. I told the cop it was the second time in a month I had been rear-ended in his fine city, in less than a month, and that I hadn't made my second payment on my new truck, and yes I
was mad. The light changed, the motorman made sure the old guy did pull-over, and he got the ticket. The body shop service writer wanted to know, "why are you back?" I showed him.
Not a death, no totaled vehicle, no one injured, but in this truck I've been in five accidents where people hit me in the rear in traffic, and one who did it in a parking lot when the truck was parked, on Thanksgiving. That ties the record for my Trans-Am we bought a year-old in '78. Between my wife & I we were in 5 accidents in 18 months in it, none were our fault. Traded it in on a new BMW 320i.
Wow sorry for both people involved, I add a motion flowing light that go's from side to side, And when the brakes are used it's a full stop. I try not to ride that much at night. But I will tell you this 8 days ago a lady bump my rear tire at a stoplight she was stop and then roll forward and tap me move me about 10". There's was a off duty police in a plain car seen what happen. And said to her give your cell phone and come pick it at the police station to the lady. He ask me was ok I said yes. Then he told me I got this here's my card if anything pop up wrong with the bike or you. And she is going to be find few tickets. The police officer was madder than I was.
