I wanted something with better gas mileage anyways
Posted on October 30, 2007 in the Ranting category
Don’t worry, everybody is OK – the only real damage was to the vehicles. Mary was in a car accident on Friday evening when coming home from work. She was driving down the main road (ie 55 mph, no stop sign) and came to an intersection. Another driver was attempting to cross the road and had no visibility because of the vehicle next to her, however, she crossed the road anyways. Mary saw her in time and was able to slow down a bit but still hit her in the rear of the car. There was nothing Mary could have done to avoid it . . . if she swerved left, she would have hit the front end of the car or oncoming traffic. If she went right, she would have hit the other car waiting at the stop sign or ended up in a ditch.
So now we are down to exactly zero vehicles. Mary’s parents have been kind enough to let us use their car for now but not sure how long this can go on. Oh and the best part . . . we were told the other driver didn’t have insurance. Mary was too rattled to think to ask while at the scene but the garage was told that someone didn’t have insurance (and we know we do). We just happen to be in a state where car insurance is not required – so it looks like we ended up on the short end of the stick this time. Of course we have insurance so we aren’t totally pooched, however, there is no rental car coverage on our policy. So our car will be fixed or totaled, I don’t know yet, and we will be set there but in the mean time we don’t have many options for a vehicle.
I am kind of hoping that it gets totaled – I liked the Jeep but I would like something with better gas mileage. When we got it, gas cost under $1.30 per gallon so it wasn’t a big deal, but now that gas has easily doubled from that, it has become an issue. The downside to getting it fixed is that its going to be nearly impossible to sell it now – whether to an individual or a dealer – because it will have been in an accident. I would think that it reduces its value, even if it was fixed as good as new.
Oh well, at least everyone is OK.
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