Why I hated Civics this morning

"blacktruck18" (blacktruck14) 11/19/2014 at 21:58 • Filed to: None

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Sorry this took so long to post I had a busy day.

For those of you who didn't see it I was pretty pissed this morning.

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Because I got hit by a dumbass in a shitty spray painted, ricer stickers in the back window having Civic this morning.

I was on my way to work about 5:45 this morning and was exiting off the interstate to take my exit. Normally there is a line of cars at this exit which usually ends up on the shoulder for a bout a 1/4 of a mile before the actual exit, because the exit goes onto Fort Lewis and everyone going onto Fort Lewis has to get their ID's checked so a line forms. As I was coming to the exit I did not see the usual long line. I attributed this to the fact that I usually come through the gate at 5:30 and get to work at 5:45 but today I didn't need to be at work until 6:15 so I left the house late.

As I got closer to the exit I could see there was a line of 3 cars on the shoulder but they were all stopped I thought there had been a fender bender or something and they were waiting for the police to get there because there were no cars in front of them like they were all waiting in line. So I didn't get in the line and exited normally.

As I passed the Civic (gray and white box in my awesome diagram below) who was completely on the shoulder, he got pissed because he thought I was cutting him off and floored it, I think he was going to try to pass me on the shoulder and get in front of me. I am guessing VTEC kicked in yo and instead of following the road or shoulder he went straight and hit the passenger side of my truck right behind the back wheel ( black and gray boxes) As soon as I felt the impact I started braking and steering to the left to get away from him. For whatever reason (MAD VTEC YO?) he continued accelerating and busted his Driver Side Mirror on my bumper and then dragged the broken part of the mirror down the side of my truck scratching up the whole side of the truck.

I continued swerving and floored it to get away from him. I guess after he was happy with just running down the side of my truck he stopped in the middle of the road. I also stopped and got out (red box) and very pleasantly called him many many nice things and told him to pull over. He rolled down his window and yelled that I was cutting him off and pulled over on the shoulder and I pulled in right in front of him and backed up almost to his bumper because I was fully expecting him to try to run away because I didn't expect him to have insurance based on how the car looked, spray painted and generally shitty. I called 911 and took a bunch of pictures of the damage to my truck and then we sat on the side of the road for almost and hour waiting for a cop to show up.

When the cop got there he talked to Civic guy first and he told the cop I was trying to run him off the road. As soon as the cop came up to my window. He got shitty with me and I was like what the hell I was in my lane he was pulling off the shoulder. At that point the cop calmed down and after talking to us he pretty much said whatever the insurance can deal with and didn't give anyone a ticket.

So now I am probably going to get found 50% at fault and FML. Usually I use my phone as a dash cam but of course not toady again, FML.

I took these pictures this morning when it was dark but most of the damage is just deep scratches. After seeing it in the day light there are a bunch more smaller scratches all the way down the truck and the front wheel has what looks like curb rash on the wheel. But it could have been much much worse and I am not injured so it's not that bad.

Back Bumper

Where his tire rubbed on my back wheel

Front bumper

Front Fender

First Impact on rear quarter panel.

All in all shitty but could have been way worse.

Spaceball-Two > blacktruck18 11/19/2014 at 22:04

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Oh man. Really sorry. Was it a Statie? I find unless someone is hurt they don't give two squirts.

blacktruck18 > Spaceball-Two 11/19/2014 at 22:07

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Ya it was. I was hoping it would be military police but we were about 200 yards from Fort Lewis proper so it was a Statie. He was cool and all just didn't want to deal with it.

BigBlock440 > blacktruck18 11/19/2014 at 22:09

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Diagram? I can't see it, and I feel like I need to. The damage doesn't look as bad as I had pictured based on the text.

Rainbow > blacktruck18 11/19/2014 at 22:09

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I almost wonder if the cop was trying too hard to avoid stereotyping. "Oh, this guy has a bunch of stickers on a Honda Civic... I better make sure to assume he was not driving recklessly."

Spaceball-Two > blacktruck18 11/19/2014 at 22:11

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Still you'd think a cop working around JBLM would give you a fair shake. Does the Honda driver work on base too? Sucks if you had to run across him.

blacktruck18 > BigBlock440 11/19/2014 at 22:12

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Oops Kinja.

blacktruck18 > Rainbow 11/19/2014 at 22:14

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There had been 4 way worse accidents on I5 in the area this morning before me and awesome guy so by the time he got to us I think he was like whatever ain't care.

blacktruck18 > Spaceball-Two 11/19/2014 at 22:20

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I think he was in uniform but I am not sure, the only time I saw him was when I got out of the truck to yell at him to pull over after that I just took pictures and sat in the truck waiting for the cop to get there.

Spaceball-Two > blacktruck18 11/19/2014 at 22:22

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Well we're back in to the rain so stay frosty.

Ducky > blacktruck18 11/19/2014 at 22:32

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yeah, in my experience state cops could not give less of a fuck. as enforcement level goes down level of ticket throwing goes up

blacktruck18 > blacktruck18 11/19/2014 at 22:39

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Based on the sounds I expected it to be way worse. When I got out I was fully expecting the whole side of the truck to be severely f'ed up. I was actually super relieved when I got out but, like I said after the 1st hit it was mostly just the stubs of the ripped of mirror scraping down the side.

BigBlock440 > blacktruck18 11/20/2014 at 07:50

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So he was stopped on the shoulder waaaaayyy back there and decided not to let you exit normally? Maybe he was just pulling out without looking? Not that that's any better.

blacktruck18 > BigBlock440 11/20/2014 at 19:38

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I would have thought that too. But when I got out of the truck he yelled something to the effect of you cut me off.

The more I think about it, I think he either wasn't paying attention or went to pull off and killed his car (don't know if the car was manual so I dont know for sure) and the traffic in front of him pulled away which left him and the 2 other cars sitting there and created the gap for me to exit normally.

Then when he saw me go past him he was thinking I was behind him on the shoulder and pulled out around him and got pissed and tried to pass me but instead he accelerated and went straight into me then freaked out and slammed on the gas instead of the brakes which is what made him continue down the side of the truck. It was cold so he could have torque steered straight instead of turning. Which in my mind seems right for the way everything happened.