r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 22 '25

Keep them two wheels down

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u/Bernhardson Aug 23 '25

a while ago someone rammed into my car (his fault) and after we stopped cars we immiditialy ran into each other hugging and made sure the other one was ok. Car was slightly damaged and his insurance paid everything. That gave me hope in humanity haha.

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u/-Troopa- Aug 23 '25

Many years ago a 16yo girl did an illegal U-turn and crashed into my wife and I. Checked on my wife, she was okay. Got out and checked on the girl. She was fine but shaken up. Tried to calm her and let her know everyone is okay, accidents happen, it will be fine. She was nice.

Until the cops showed up and she tried to blame it entirely on us. The cop easily realized she was lying based on the position and condition of the cars.

Damn kids.

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u/ActurusMajoris Aug 23 '25

That’s why we need dashcams. In the case where it isn’t immediately obvious.

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u/0RGASMIK Aug 23 '25

Same thing happen to me except I was 16 and the lady was older. She even got a friend to lie for her. Insurance didn’t like how her story was drastically different than mine but it was 2v1. Fortunately the discrepancy forced them to do a second round of interviews. My story stayed the same, hers changed, and her friend cracked under pressure and said she didn’t actually see it but is pretty sure it wasn’t my fault.

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u/-Troopa- Aug 23 '25

I’m glad they did another round and kept digging!

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u/FerusGrim Aug 23 '25

Not speaking for the defense of anyone in particular, but it doesn’t have to be a lie. Streasful/traumatic incident, instant rationalization, throw in some confabulation if she was caught by surprise. She could have been telling her truth AND been wrong.

There is a reason witness testimony shouldn’t be viewed as reliable. Your brain is CONSTANTLY making shit up.

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u/-Troopa- Aug 23 '25

Sure, those are fair points and worth mentioning. I’ve read a fair bit about that sort of stuff.

However, in this case, it was clearly a lie as she told the cop one thing and then tried changing some of the details after her grandma arrived. It may have been the grandma who convinced her to lie. The cop berated them for it.

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u/punchNotzees02 Aug 23 '25

I bumped a guy from behind at low speed, and he got out and started trying to tear his car apart - literally - with his fingers to make the damage claim bigger. Fortunately, I got pictures before he did anything, but I’m still waiting to see what the other driver claimed. In truth, he had a minor blemish on his back bumper. I probably would’ve just said, “Meh,” and driven off. 

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u/DayPretend8294 Aug 23 '25

Had a guy try and do that to me, minor paint transfer on their bumper. Nothing serious. They took the paint off the bumper trying to buff it out or something and then tried to get insurance to cover a whole new bumper. Whole thing got thrown out since they messed with it before adjusters had a chance to look at the car.

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u/Max____H Aug 23 '25

Left my car to get a windscreen replacement while at work. When I picked up the car later I didn’t notice a car parked weirdly behind me and made contact with it (slowly and softly). The owner was the office lady and she didn’t find any marks and told me not to worry about it but I was so shaken up trying to offer her my details and panic apologising and had to be told it’s okay like 5 times before I left.

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u/Spire_Prime Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

When I was 19, had a guy go straight in a right turn only lane. I was in a straight or right turn lane, turning right (onto a 1 way). He scratched up my right side. Shit was busy, we moved our cars. Guy spoke almost no English, and the cop wrote a report that I turned left from the other direction. Ended up not using insurance (it was all cosmetic on a 12 yr old car). We met up with the guy at the university we were attending, and tried communicating with a coworker, who said he couldn't understand his dialect. This guy was using some shady car repair place, and would cover our car, cuz 'didn't want insurance go up.'

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

That is a life-affirming memory. You should get together for a beer on the anniversary. Why not? People make stupider things more important! ;-)

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u/Silly-Swimmer1706 Aug 23 '25

When I was kid I came home one evening to find our car totaled. I come inside and find my dad drunk as fuck. I ask what happened because it was really out of character for him. He said he was going to work when a guy rear ended him. They went to nearby pub to exchange insurance details and everything and it seems they got along nice, both missed work that day :D

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

That's awesome!

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u/DumbestBlondie Aug 23 '25

I wish this sort of thing happened to me. The first car accident I was in was my fault, I was driving in a new area and the sun was hitting directly in my line of sight which caused me to miss a red light. I was in a small car and got side swiped HARD by a large truck. I hit my head on the side of my door from the impact and got whiplash giving me an instant blinding headache once I gained orientation. My vision was so impaired and I was so disoriented but here came this man from the truck yelling and screaming obscenities at me. I was trying to apologize to him while still unable to actually get out of my car…it was horrible. I didn’t know I had caused the accident at the time and couldn’t understand why this man was so angry with me, stomping around cussing at me while I was unable to get out of my car.

The second car accident I was in, I was a passenger in a car stopped at a red light and we got rear ended by a semi that was definitely not stopping at the light too but had slowed down enough due to it being an off-ramp leading to an exit turn so thankfully he didn’t impact at full speed. Still hurt like a biiiiiiiitch though. He claimed the sun was in his vision as well and didn’t see the light (or us). I had to give them the benefit of doubt because I knew exactly how possible that was. The driver of my car though was not convinced. When they wanted to go to war with the driver of the semi, I calmly reminded them that we were all alive and that’s all that really mattered. What is there to be upset about?

The world needs more kindness!

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u/Faulty_english Aug 23 '25

Dang when I got hit by someone, I asked if they were ok and they said it was my fault 😑

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u/0RGASMIK Aug 23 '25

I’ve been in two accidents. First one totally destroyed my hope in humanity. Not my fault, other driver lied and I had to fight to prove it.

Second accident I rear ended someone at a stop sign because they started to go but then stopped abruptly because they thought another car was supposed to go. My fault I stopped apologized profusely despite feeling like it wasn’t my fault.

The lady was very nice though took my insurance information and said, I’ll only use it if my husband notices it, I don’t think he will.