OT: tailgaters

That's just a little fender bender. You *should* be able to just drive it home.

I was running on battery at the time...I didn't try engaging the gas generator after the collision. Dash display was giving me various messages like "Propulsion Power Reduced" and "Electric Drive Unavailable" or something. I'm hoping that the impact sensors simply disengaged the HV system.

It felt like a hell of a bang, though this is the first "real" collision I've had in nearly 20 years of driving so I'm not sure exactly what's normal. I'd estimate the speed of impact was around 25-30.

Her old minivan seemed clearly totaled, the hood was pushed up almost as high as the roof.

If that damage was enough to do in the vehicle, I'd get rid of it pronto.

Probably closer to 10. Maybe.

Perhaps but only because it was old and next to worthless. They can replace the whole nose on a car, pretty easily.

Was she insured? If so, you may luck out and it's just some connections jarred loose; the visible crunch looks to be mainly "cosmetic" damage that these days will run a few grand.

Yeah, it'll be rein"car"nated as POS cellphones and whatnot.

Mark L. Fergerson

Yep, she's fully covered. I am too, since it's a lease, but I don't have "new car replacement" insurance or whatever. My deductible is only $300. "Gap" insurance was required.

I don't have rental car insurance, but I'm hoping that the other party's insurance will swing that. We weren't injured, but I'm going to suffer lost wages and "pain in the ass" factor as well. I don't want a lot, but it would be great if I could be compensated a little something for that factor, though that may be a longshot.

She was 100% at fault and cited for speeding/following to close by the police at the scene, so that should work in my favor.

I was once T-boned in my "90s minivan" (in 1990) by someone who blew through a stop sign. He had no insurance, tried to leave the scene (tried - had no radiator left), was DWAI, and on parole from the state pen. I can pick 'em. $12K damage to a six-month old car.

For about ten years, I'd get a notice from my insurance company that they were still trying to squeeze that stone and that if they got diamond, I'd get my deductible ($500, IIRC) back. Fat chance.

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-Lasse

Oh, I forgot, the plates didn't match the car, either.

It was supposed to be in New York, too. Laws are only for the honest. That's the obvious problem with "gun control" crowd.

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What does having plates have to do with having insurance? If you really think everyone has insurance, you're in for a rude introduction to real life. There is a reason states require "uninsured motorist" insurance (maybe not a good reason, but...).

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The insurance company is responsible for sending repo men out to take tags off cars? I'm sure that's popular when the inevitable f'up happens. How do they deal with people moving out of state? In any case, that doesn't solve the problem of switched plates, which was the case.

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and since getting plates on a new car involves paying the 180% tax you can imagine the government wouldn't take fake plates lightly

-Lasse

Your plates may be an exception, but here it would be pretty easy to make Licence plates.

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-Lasse