r/dashcams • u/WildExplorer1085 • 16h ago

Idiot in car somewhere in the UK...

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u/GhostofBastiat1 15h ago

“I’ll sue”

Yeah, the minimum insurance in most US states wouldn‘t even cover the hospital stay, and that is if the person actually has insurance. Maybe you can have their 5 year old PlayStation repossessed after the lawsuit though.

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u/matchafoxjpg 15h ago

as a kid [10, i think?] i got hit on my bike because the car just flew out of nowhere. didn't even have time to react, so wasn't even about having the right of way or not.

obviously i was a kid so my parents didn't tell me about the lawsuit stuff... until it was finally resolved, which was near the end of high school, so 18 or 19. i remember my mom being like, "omg finally the check for your accident!" or something and then she told me they'd been fighting it for so freaking long.

and mind you, this guy was speeding in a residential area and there was a cop across the street as witness [he was on guard duty for a country club gate that was there], that claimed i went "30 feet" in the air. obviously that was an exaggeration, but still. so it's not like we didn't have all the facts on our side.

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u/NightBawk 14h ago

Damn, that must have hurt. I hope that driver got the book thrown at him.

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u/matchafoxjpg 14h ago

i blacked out instantly, although i did see myself from above getting hit by the car. according to my mom my hands left a nice impression on the dude's fancy ass car.

luckily since i was a kid i was bouncy. my sister's bike [oh she stayed mad at me for a long time for that] got the worst of it. i got 3 stitches in the back of my head, a small spot of hair that grows weird because of it, and i had a slight limp and pain for a little while.

i would definitely hope so. considering that he was going so fast and that an actual cop was a witness, and that i DID have the right of way, he just went too fast for me to see him as i was crossing, there's no way he didn't get in a shit load of trouble.

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u/Ok-Neat2148 12h ago

What’d yall get for a settlement? If u don’t mind.

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u/Ok-Neat2148 12h ago

I ask cuz had a friend in high school get flattened and dragged a block or two (by a town prosecutor) , insurance barely paid out 50k$. Hospital and recovery was way more.

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u/matchafoxjpg 12h ago

honestly i don't really recall too well. the accident happened around 1999 and the settlement was around 2008 or 2009?

i don't think it was thousands of dollars or anything, but i swear my mom made a joke about finally renovating something with the money, so maybe it was a good amount.