Saturday, April 25, 2009

Fender Bender with 4 cars - everybody unhurt.




Last night we were involved in a four car Fender Bender, it was not my fault we were the victims. As our car sits outside with some pretty big damage I am sure our neighbours are driving by wondering what kind of driving accident I perpetrated. The fact is we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

At work there were tickets for the Lehigh Valley Ironpigs Baseball game - Yes Jimmy Baseball! I said I would take them in the senario when there were no takers. There were no takers and I got 4 tickets. Quickly call Jill and have here make dinner quicker than usual on a Friday evening. Come home have Jerk Chicken on a stick with Jambalaya rice and get ready to go. The weather was lovely 75/23 degrees and warm. In the game the Ironpigs won handily and it was a great way to start the weekend with fireworks to finish the night...Well not exactly to finish the night.

We had been at a game for the first time 9 days before when it was colder, it was wednesday and the attendance was considerably less. So last night had 9,984 attendance I remember this because I thought with only 16 more people it would 10,000 exactly. Leaving the parking lot was crazy with inching and more inching. We ended up behind some idiot teenagers driving rich Daddys car. They had arms out the window trying to be cool. We watched them accelerate and speed away in the Acura. Dicks!!!

We had been driving for about 5 minutes when the fender bender happened. Traffic slowed to a stop at a red light we came to a stop and with so many cars in a small area I looked in my rear view mirror to ensure the person behind had stopped safely. There must have been a period of 6 or 7 seconds where we were waiting to move again and then we heard it. Screaching of tyres which appeared to be a long way back and then a loud bang. Barely a second later we were hit from behind hard and launched forward into a jeep, Apparently I exclaimed and expletive F***!

Immediately I was thinking I dont want to be involved in this and that whoever did this would drive away. Without any clear idea of what happened I got out and asked the girl who hit into me if she was ok and if she was the one responsible, at that point a guy came from the sidewalk and said it was him. He was extremely nice about it and very apologethic. He had hit the girl behind us and she hit into us and then we got pushed into the jeep in front of us. Waiting for the cop to come file report and after much waiting we were able to drive home and now we have neighbours walking by and looking and thinking I made a mistake as you would think that. When we got home we called our insurance company and the lady was very nice too. So now we wait for the assessor to come and have all this fixed. Its a pain in the arse, but shit happens and everyone was unhurt. I now have a headache.