:angry: Well I guess it had to happen sooner or later !. Driving over to my local landscaping supply store, tooling along at 40 km\h (rare for me) and some doofus pulls out of a shopping center parking lot not looking while trying to buckle his seatbelt. As they say "it all happened in a split second", actually it was in slo-mo. I just had time to hit the horn, swerve and yell "Oh $hit". I hit this guy broadside, his car('90s Mazda 626) bounced off my front end, spun around hit my driver's door. Not exactly a secluded local for an accident either, it happened on the main BLVD near my house so all the local yocals were there with their expert opinions of what happened. The Mazda was folded in two pinning the unconsious driver, the passenger sprang out of his side and immediately started kicking the car and swearing in French. I tried to calm him down so he could be some help but no chance. His freind started to come to, so I took hold of his head and supported it against the seat headrest incase of a spine injury. The ambulance arrived with 4 firetrucks in close pursuit and it took the crew 40 minutes to cut this fellow out from his wreck. At the end of this day, 1 badly bruised doofus goes to hospital, his buddy goes to jail for verbally attacking a Police officer, one less Mazda on the road and my three month old '03 Silverado is no longer pristine (about 5 grand in damage). I guess I should be happy that I can recount this story uninjured but I don't feel particularly lucky today.

I am so sorry to hear your un-lucky sunday story :( Here's hoping the dufus is not encouraged by some ambulance chaser to make your life miserable.
A perfect example of why insurance is becoming out of reach. Good luck. :)

Thats a bummer :( He pulled out in front of you (making a turn in front of you) would this not make him liabel? Did he get charged?

That really sucks.
I am wondering were some people get there drivers licsense???

KING: Me TOO!!
LadyK: Here in Quebec we have No Fault insurance, the cops aren't obligated to lay charges as they are in Ontario. The good news is I was about 1 minute (time it takes to install his seat) away from bringing my 2 year old with me.
[CORY9: He'd be quite a fool to try to go the legal route with me, I've set too many broken bones on lawyers and have a rolladex full of their business cards.

Ps. Further to LadyK's letter to Mr. Eves, I'm sending the honourable Mr. Ernie Eves a letter using the Quebec snowmobile club insurance and registration insurance model for his review. I figured I'd start a the top then CC everyone else. We all should do this to protect our winter sport and freedoms enlisted in our charter of rights.

Thanks for the replies,

Simon

The good news is I was about 1 minute (time it takes to install his seat) away from bringing my 2 year old with me.

Luckly enough even if you did bring your 2 year old with you, your Domestic Truck would have left him unscaved.

To bad about the truck, But at least you handled it right and walked away with out a scratch. Cars and trucks can be fixed, well you know. As for the babbling french man, Some people just dont seem to understand how to handle themselfs in situations. Good things can only happen if you stay calm. Sombody should have decked him.

:D Machzzzz1 Knowing the reputation our Surete de Quebec have, I would guess someone has already decked him at the police station LOL.

well atleast the victims weren't hurt in this one. we should let this be a lesson to us all. when attaching or detaching seatbelts, do it in park. i will not let someone in or out of my car without the car in park neither.

LOL i would like to see some guy run out of a car and yell in french at Machzzzz1 :D That guy would get decked so hard ans knocked out till the ambulance came to take him away :D

Originally posted by paul yarek@May 26 2003, 12:34 AM
well atleast the victims weren't hurt in this one. we should let this be a lesson to us all. when attaching or detaching seatbelts, do it in park. i will not let someone in or out of my car without the car in park neither.
That's an easy one with my Saturn. The doors lock as soon as you take it out of park, and then unlock when you put it back in park.

Originally posted by Thumbdoctor@May 25 2003, 06:14 PM

LadyK: Here in Quebec we have No Fault insurance, the cops aren't obligated to lay charges as they are in Ontario.

Thumbdoc, I don't think you are quite right about the cops not being obligated to lay charges. If dufus failed to yield, ran a stop sign, wasn't wearing seatbelt while driving, was drunk, etc, the cops duty is to charge this guy. No-fault insurance has nothing to do with this.
We've had no-fault in Sask. for a long time also.

konkinj: I checked with my neighbour who's a cop. He said the only lay charges in Quebec if there's impairment leading to bodily harm or death. In my opinion, this guy's only impairment was his drivers permit. ;)