My Friend's Sister Has Wrecked 3 Cars

"Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna" (lukielauxd) 10/12/2015 at 16:53 • Filed to: None

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So I find out her list of dream cars right now include a 1st Gen CRV, a 00’ Subaru Outback and a 70’s or 80’s Land Cruiser. What a gal. AND SHE’S ONLY 17.

My friend who gave me the opportunity to drive her family’s Mitsubishi Raider, and a RAV4 and a Hyundai Santa Fe (not the most exciting cars, but always great to drive cars I’ve never driven before.) Her sister has wrecked a third car I never knew they had, my friend’s RAV4, and the Santa Fe my friend has been using since her RAV4 in in the shop (it actually got out of the shop two days ago and got wrecked already.)

bob and john > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 16:57

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this is the kind of person who needs self driving cars to come out already....

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:01

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She needs some time restrictions on her license as we'll as a locked safe in the back of the car for her phone.

M54B30 > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:04

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It’s nice to want things, but she needs a goddamn bus pass until she’s mature enough to drive well

fourvalleys > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:04

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I think I may know a friend-of-a-friend who has this beaten... I’ll let that person comment here if they want to. Same situation. (e: here )

Also, I was involved in a hit & run where the Carfax indicated it was the other driver’s fifth accident in nine months. She went on to hit three other cars after leaving the scene of mine.

She also had a pending felony charge and despite witnesses and admission of guilt, she faced no charges.

People are scary, man.

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:07

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My girlfriend’s sister is at 4 or 5 cars now, all totaled. Including my girlfriend’s old RX-8, and the sister’s previous Mazda3.

Even worse, the Mazda3 was still somewhat driveable, but only by the most literal definition of the word. So while their parents were out of town she decided to lie and told my girlfriend she was going down the street to console a friend, whose bf had just broken up with her or something like that. While we were on our way to dinner that night, my girlfriend gets a call from her frantic sister bawling about how she’d actually tried to drive the approximate 40 miles to her boyfriend’s house in her busted up Mazda3, and was now stranded on the side of the tollway.

She’s 18, and somehow still has her license...

(Thankfully no FJs were harmed in this series of tragic events, but the RX-8 is certainly a sad loss. Especially since it was a manual!)

Berang > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:08

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Give her the keys to the bicycle already.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:16

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Does she realize how Jalop she is?

Tohru > fourvalleys 10/12/2015 at 17:16

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No charges for a hit and run? You need to get in touch with the local attorney general’s office because that cop is not doing his job.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:20

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She may want to start driving one of these:

duurtlang > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:20

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What is it with all these people who know others who totalled many cars? I can’t think of a single person I know who’s totalled a single car that I know off.

Steve in Manhattan > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:22

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someone sign her up for Uber.

fourvalleys > Tohru 10/12/2015 at 17:25

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Condensed version:

She was the wife of a pretty wealthy guy, and (must have) had a pretty decent attorney. They would only talk to the police through their attorney, and were not making it easy. Eventually she confessed.

I got the summons to give my testimony as the victim of her criminal hit & run charge but needed to reschedule as it was the day I was returning from out of the country. I was told that the charge had been decreased from a criminal traffic offense to a misdemeanor traffic ticket, and I was no longer the victim, I was an “involved witness.” Oh, they don’t reschedule testimonies or allow depositions for involved witnesses. If the involved witness and/or the police do not show up, the charges are thrown out.

So, I suppose my phrasing was poor. She did face charges, they were dropped when I couldn’t show up. Miami isn’t known for its stellar police record.

I didn’t push it all that much because my insurance company handled it very well. I had a check for the value of my car in just over a week. They recovered the costs for my vehicle and her insurance company was happy to do whatever it took to get me to not sue (hopefully so they could drop her coverage). They covered aftermarket parts, things damaged inside the car, and even flights that I had to re-arrange because of it.

e: I just did a quick search and learned that she’s now going by a different name. So far, that’s the third or fourth name I’ve found for her. Two different first names, and three different last names (different last names than her husband, too...)

Blondude > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 17:30

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and a 70’s or 80’s Land Cruiser

No, please no. We can’t risk it.

Tapas > fourvalleys 10/12/2015 at 17:54

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I’m surprised to learn that such a person exists.

This is horrible.

At what point does a person like this do some introspection and think that they’re the problem and they need to address it.

I mean sure, she can keep getting away with shit like this...till the day she dies because of her reckless attitude.

Pokesmot > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. 10/12/2015 at 17:54

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A beetle?

Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 10/12/2015 at 17:56

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I don’t think she does, but my friend told me earlier this year that their family owned a Shelby Cobra before. So they’re all a little bit Jalopy.

fourvalleys > Tapas 10/12/2015 at 18:13

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Yep, it’s frustrating. The whole situation wasn’t fun to deal with.

When she hit me, I was a few hundred yards from my place. I later learned that her car was registered to an address about 1/8 mile from there. Not that she lived at that address, though. It was a house under renovation, ostensibly to be sold by her husband, a big-time real estate agent.

In fact, one of the multiple names I mentioned above was the reason HER insurance company took two months to even contact me. They couldn’t figure out how to get a hold of her. Not a great sign. I had a witness standing there watching the accident happen who saw her face, talked to her (“You can’t leave, your wheel is hanging off!”) and all of this was still as difficult as you could imagine. I’m just fortunate I didn’t have a passenger and that I wasn’t hurt myself.

There’s about a dozen other things that made the whole thing a real pain...

For example, the fact that the collision coated my entire interior in milk and pickle juice, and that my insurance didn’t want to cover it because “it wasn’t caused by the accident, it was caused by something in the vehicle at the time of the accident.” They expected me to clean everything - including under the hybrid battery - while I was stranded on the side of the road. I was stuck there with a disabled vehicle for 3 and a half hours since they somehow couldn’t find me a tow truck in the Tow Truck Capitol of America (Miami). They agreed to cover the interior once their adjuster was swarmed by flies when he opened the door. It would have been totaled either way, but it was still obnoxious.

I could go on, but I think you get the picture. It was just a circus. It wasn’t fully sorted until 10 months later. Some of that was by my choice - once I knew I wasn’t wasting police resources, I knew that their lawyer was the only one talking to their insurance company. I hope he got paid by the hour. :)

Tapas > fourvalleys 10/12/2015 at 19:01

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Holy. Crap. I am glad I have never dealt with such severe fuck-ups.

I would definately have had to restrain myself from trying to hunt her down and find a way to fuck up her life legally.

Autofixation > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/12/2015 at 23:41

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What state does she live in?

Nick > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 10/13/2015 at 10:26

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I had an 01’ outback LL Bean. it was slow, but unstoppable. damn near impossible to find engine parts for. that H6 must be super rare.