Thursday, January 06, 2011

Did you know?



Did you know that if you are in an auto accident and it involves one of the vehicles making a U-turn from a stopped or parked position, that the vehicle which gets hit is the one responsible for the accident? Ouch! My poor, newly purchased minivan (Chrysler Town & Country) is in the repair shop at the dealer where we originally purchased it. I got into a car accident this past Monday morning just after dropping off the youngest two kids to school. I posted two pics showing most of the damage. I couldn't open up my driver's side front door at all! The vehicle itself was drivable, thank heavens. But, my front driver's door and driver's side sliding door panel will both have to be replaced. :( The accident was deemed my fault because I apparently pulled out into the path of the other vehicle. I did look before moving out from the shoulder of the road before making the U-turn at the front of my neighborhood, but apparently there must have been another car heading my way. She plowed into me...smack! No one was hurt thankfully. I had just finished dropping off Sierra at our neighborhood bus stop when this happened. I was making a U-turn to go back home and had been parked on the side of the road just before the incident. I was truly surprised that the other driver wasn't at least somehow deemed partially responsible, as I thought she must not have been paying attention and could have avoided the impact. But, Florida law doesn't apparently agree, nor does my auto insurance carrier...that was a shock to me! I miss my car, but fortunately our car insurance covers a rental vehicle for us while the repairs are being made and they replaced my car with a 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan, which is almost identical to the Chrysler Town & Country minivan. Although the rental car has an upgraded feature...automatic sliding doors! That is definitely a nice feature that I wish we could have had in our van, but we were trying to get the best vehicle for the lowest price and pretty much had to choose the option we did, just to keep our car payments within the range we wanted to be in. Anyway, just figured I'd post a new blurb on here since I haven't written on this blog in many months.