Car Accident

My clean driving record is ruined. No tickets and no accidents. I'm so mad. At least i made it to 23 without anything. I knew it couldn't last forever but i was hoping it would.

Don't worry nothing too bad happened it was just a fender bender. And might i add it was not my fault. It was some idiots who left the scene. I'm serious. You hear about stuff happening like that but you never imagine that it will happen to you. Stupid person.

What happened was that I was traveling north on state street in Orem. It had just snowed and the roads were pretty slick. A truck that was a few car lengths in front of me wanted to switch lanes from the right to the middle. when they hit the ice and snow build up between the two lanes they started to fish tale. They ended up over correcting the truck too much and ended facing south with there front in the left lane and their end in the middle lane. MY LANE! so what do you think i do. I put on my brakes. which then caused my car to start to slide. My front stayed in the middle lane and my end landed in the right lane. Following me so far.

I ended up stopping a few feet away from the truck. I was just grateful that I didn't hit him. Well as i was celebrating my victory someone rear ended me. Sad. So i did not hit anyone. Thank goodness.

Well the truck seeing the accident made a u turn around the two of us and sped off.

Who would do that? Serious! They had to have know that they caused the thing why else would they have ran away.

Anyways since it was my first accident i really had no idea what to do. The girl and i just waited in our cars for someone to come. but a volunteer police officer was like right behind us and was at our cars immediatly asking if every thing was alright.

When the officer came he asked if we could move our cars to the near by parking lot and there is where he took our statements and took our info. It took like an hour to do the whole thing. I never imagine that it took so long.

Someone else who had seen the accident had called in the license plate of the truck and I also had written the thing down and we both had the same plate. I was proud that in a moment like that i was able to write down the correct plate. Yeah for me!

Anyways once everything was finished I drove to my moms and called our insurance company. Allstate. That took another hour. Well as it turns out the girl that hit me also had Allstate. How random is that!

Later that day i got another call from Allstate wanting a recording of my statement. And you would not believe but that took another hour. Lots of hours wasted in this whole affair for an accident that lasted 10 seconds!

They still don't have a name for the truck driver and they still have not issued liability. But the officer did say that i was the least liable. That is nice but not so nice for Allstate because no matter what they still have to pay for that.

The most odd thing of it is that since it was another Allstate customer that hit me our deductible has been waved. I am not sure how that works out but the lady on the phone told me that when she was explaining how i needed to get the car fixed. Thats nice that i don't have any out of pocket expense. As of now.

But would you believe that the one day that i did not have my camera in my purse i got in an accident. What ever at least we all have camera phones now. I took a few pictures of my car and a few pictures of hers.

Well I'll keep you updated about the whole affair.

Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey