I was scheduled for court last week as witness to a bad rear end collision. I watched a driver not stop for a red light and slam the guy ahead of her who was already stopped. No serious injuries.
While I was doing minor first aid on the perpetrator driver, I realized the accident would be the least of her worries. Her list of charges are two for the accident and about seven drug charges. The prosecutor called me last week to tell me they are packing a few more drug charges on and the trial will be delayed.
Yikes.
Several years ago, I was bringing Himself back from outpatient surgery and had stopped for the light on a bridge.
A PA elderly lady with expired tags/no license/insurance/permission to drive drove into the rear of my car at 35mph, *at least*.
The people behind said she didn’t even tap the brakes.
It knocked me forward 10 feet [luckily I always stop far behind other cars, a biker habit] and she kept just coming and hit me *again*, this time to within a frog hair of the car in front me’s rear bumper.
It took me a few to regain my thoughts and I got out of the car, intending to do grave bodily harm to whomever was back there.
As I rounded the back of my messed up Magnum, I saw that the ~already~ crushed up hood of her KIA was held down with an assortment of bungee cords.
I was not her first victim.
When I got to her door, she was just sitting there, hands on the wheel, staring into the void, blithely waiting for the light to change.
I gave up my plans to yank her out of her car.
When she rolled down her window, I got the impression she thought I was a corner beggar looking for spare change and she was utterly surprised when I told her what she’d just done. [but not apologetic]
I gave a wail of disgust and just walked back to where the city cops had been writing tickets for some other minor fender bender on the same bridge.
[tiny drizzles of rain apparently render some drivers stone cold stupid]
A half hour later, her family comes and carries her off to their car and drives her away.
I get a report for the insurance company but she has NO insurance so we had to pay a deductible for all the damage and repairs to my car.
I had whiplash but couldn’t even go the ER because *he* was sitting through all of this, still, after outpatient surgery.
A few months later, she up and died so I couldn’t even file against her personally.
The weird thing is, when she hit the first time, my instant confused thought was “OMG, my motor just fell out”. Second hit “and there went the tranny, too”.
Crazy what your brain comes up with, to try and make sense of things.