And so it happens again. Another foreign driver doesn’t realize that red means stop, especially when those red lights are on the back of a car indicating the brake is depressed and more than likely the car isn’t moving.
I was on Waxpool today, along with a BMW (who was behind me), and a Van (behind him). We were all stopped at Rt. 28’s light — you did know they wanted to turn this into a clover leaf. It had been a good 30 seconds or so, with clear visibility.
A foreign driver plows into the van, destroying the back of it at the same time pushing it into the BMW, who’s driver depresses the brakes but still is pushed into …me.
That’s twice I’ve been rear ended by a foreign driver when I was at a complete stop. And again, State Farm is the insurer.
There are two external witnesses, the police are called, and the foreign driver doesn’t understand why when he impacts a stopped vehicle that he’s at fault.
My faith in the DMV for handing out licenses has plummented to an all time low.
I must say that Progressive, the new insurance we switched to in order to save a hunk of change, is living up to exactly what their commercials imply. Fast, friendly, helpful service with multiple follow up calls to see how things are going -and- that I’m not being given the run around by the other insurance company.
State Farm is devious if not down right pure evil. My last experience with them they put a substandard offer on the table that didn’t even meet my medical bills, when I said I just wanted to be reimbursed (I wasn’t trying to stick it to anyone — and their driver admitted fault), State Farm played a new game: not answering or returning my calls. This went on for months, so I was forced to get a lawyer. He tried for months, same dead. The only way to get State Farm involed was to sue. Then State Farm’s lawyer tries to claim that I’m just harassing their client (who claims she was never in an accident and never heard of me) and tries counter suing… until I produce their client’s information in their client’s own hand on an accident form. This goes crap goes on and on until we end up in court — with their attorney holding photos of my damanged vehicle under her arm she flat out lies to the jury; my two doctors are prohibited from showing evidence or explaining because they’d be “reconstructing the accident.” I still won, but the court costs, fees, and time well exceeded the award amount that was in the low hundeds (30% of which went to the lawyer after subtracting other fees from the gross win). State Farm declared I wasn’t injured and that my car wasn’t damaged.
Now that State Farm is on the phone with me, they want to know have I been in any other accidents and consequently, I must have been injured (so perhaps, maybe, just maybe this injury I feel is from back in 1998). They want it both ways.