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Today was first day of school. I was getting ready to go and take the bus (taking the bus here is very common for us not-so-wealthy students :P ).

It was getting late so my mother offered me a ride (she had a medical appontment anyway so she could drop me in school on the way there). When we were at some boulevard in a strange turn, she slowed down and suddenly we felt that something hit the car from behind. Luckily it wasn't too hard.

When we got down, the other driver was already checking the damage. He said he got distracted a second and didn't see our car slowing down. After that (he seemed to be in a hurry) he quickly offered my mother money to get the car fixed (the damage was minimal). We were on a hurry too so she was about to accept the money but a police came and said we should wait for another officer to come. A minute later or so, the other policeman came and saw the damage. Both drivers told him that they had settled the matter and he would give my mother the money for the repair, however, the officer said he needed to contact a superior (someone with a higher rank, i'm not sure what word to use hehe).

So we ended up waiting like 10-15 minutes for the other officer to come to do the report and the paperwork. He just started to copy the information of both drivers on a notebook and he allowed us to go after that, asking if they had an agreement already.

So... that was it, faster than i would thought.

Fortunately, i only hit my knee, nothing worse. I'm really tired right now and it's a bit late so i'm off for tonight.


P.D. What surprised me of this, is that, when the third policeman came, his partner got a weapon off the car (not sure why he did). What impressed me the most is that the thing looked like an M16. I was shocked that he would take that kind of weapon out considering the situation (it seemed that he only got it out just to not leave it inside the car).

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Well you got lucky, it could have been a lot worse, and the average distance between two cars must be 35 feets I think, but nobody follows that law so there are lots of car accidents daily thanks to distracted drivers.
And the officer with the BFG was just following the normal procedure :P

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May I ask what Country you live in?


But yeah, try and note down the person's insurance info and copy parts of tier ID. Then just bugger off before the police come. Saves so much time.
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That sucks, but before you go "oh shit cops gonna shoot me for a fender bender!" you gotta look at it through the cop's eyes. He has zero idea what just happened and he probably has to follow a ton of procedures to keep things legal.
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Your 1st day of school starts in mid January?

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Reise wrote:That sucks, but before you go "oh shit cops gonna shoot me for a fender bender!" you gotta look at it through the cop's eyes. He has zero idea what just happened and he probably has to follow a ton of procedures to keep things legal.


Yeah most of the time its the cop who is actually nervous...

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Crumpets wrote:May I ask what Country you live in?

I was right about to ask that as well. Down here where I live, normal cops don't carry anything more than a 9mm sidearm.

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Well at least no one got hurt, so that is good.
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should've got his insurance..the damage could be worse than it looks, cars are funny like that
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fena wrote:
Crumpets wrote:May I ask what Country you live in?

I was right about to ask that as well. Down here where I live, normal cops don't carry anything more than a 9mm sidearm.


I live in Mexico, and no, they normally don't have weapons like that, that's why it surprised me.

And well... my mother had a backache a few hours after it. I didn't feel sore or anything so i guess my knee didn't hit too hard :P

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