This past Saturday I was at a grocery store and had a slight encounter
with a Hispanic lady in a Nissan Sentra.
When I was backing out she tried to bullet past me and she caught my
drivers side bumper and end cap with her bumper.
We stopped up traffic real good while I penciled in all of my information
and showed her my insurance card and drivers license so she could compare
them to the information I had given her.
She then refused to give me any information at all on her insurance,
drivers license etc.
The damages were very minor to my Westy and her vehicle showed no signs
of bumper damage, although it had totally crushed the internal Styrofoam
or plastic structure below the urethane bumper covering. (I checked by
pressing the bumper in, while she wasn't looking, and it depressed in and
popped out looking OK).
I insisted that she give me her insurance information and I became so
insistent that she called for the police.
The officer was mucho put out that he had been called to such a minor
event.
He took all of her information down on a tipple accident form and handed
the whole set of originals and copies to me. He gave her a good scolding
for refusing to provide the information that is required by law in Texas.
Since she has three vehicles on her insurance policy this little accident
will (if she reports it) cost her an extra $500.00 per year in premiums
for three years.
As for me, I'm going to hammer out my bumper and install a new end cap.
No big deal.
However If she reports it and claims any bodily injury (Flames A Coming)
as most Hispanics do I can develop the same bodily injury symptoms myself
in less than twenty four hours. In addition I'll be getting a new $500.00
bumper and $260.00 labor to have it installed.
Who was at fault?
Both of us.
Me for not watching better and her for trying to bullet past a car
backing up.

Stan Wilder
1983 Westfalia Air Cooled

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