yup, leaving the scene of an accident beats a DWI any day...
Posted on 09/09/2013 4:25:43 PM PDT by lowbridge
Billionaire New York Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman left the scene of a Hamptons accident after plowing his fancy Lexus into a parked Ford – and now his insurance company is sticking the stunned owner of the totaled car with the $4,000 tab.
Single mom Charlene Peele has been told by the media and real estate mogul’s insurer that she’ll get just $13,000 for her wrecked 2009 Fusion, even though she still owes $17,000 on what is now a heap of scrap metal.
“It’s outrageous,” Peele told The Post of her ongoing five-week fight with the media mogul’s insurance company. “It’s the principal of the thing. He hit me, but I’m the one running around like a crazy person, trying to sort out a mess I wasn’t even involved in. It’s the principal of the thing, and I’m the one left without a car.”
Peele, a veteran Starbucks manager, was at work when Zuckerman, 76, came tooling down Main Street in East Hampton Village on August 11 – a clear, sunny day – when he “looked away from the roadway,” veered right and slammed into Peele’s car, according to a police report.
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Doesn’t matter what his insurer says.
You hit a parked car, you pay.
I’d get an attorney and sue for tortuous relief.
Actually it's the principal, plus the interest.
Unless she's talking about the unfairness, in which case it would be a principle but not the principal.
Don't journo's have to take English courses anymore?
Also, note in the future:
“if you buy a car on credit always purchase GAP insurance. $20 bucks a year and your car would be paid off. then you go get another loan”.
I do wonder how you could possibly owe so much much money on a 4 year old car.
I just bought a New Fusion for $23k.
Too bad there isn’t a REAL “Leverage” group to help the lady.
Members of the Tribe are not bothered by the petty concerns of the little people.
She probably won't go that dramatic, but there's no doubt she's already suffering a bunch of stress over this loss.
It would have been the right thing to do for a man of Zuckerman's means to get a hold of her and make up the damage by paying off her loan, then getting her a better replacement vehicle, sparing her the added burden of being left hanging with the balance owing on her car loan.
A billionaire doesn't even need car insurance to begin with. He's got the financial ability to make good on any damage he might cause to some other person's vehicle.
hmmmm.... Zuckerman left the scene of the accident and avoided getting busted for DUI etc. if he’d had a few drinks, as is likely!! Does a sober person ram into a parked car on a clear dry day????? I don’t think so!!
The Ted Kennedy course on avoiding detection of drunken driving must have been a help...just leave and stay away long enough to sober up.
Lock the bastard up if he doesn't make it right.
yup, leaving the scene of an accident beats a DWI any day...
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