My first accident

[jbarnhart]

Gosh, your car in the photo looks like a lot more damage was done to it! Half the roof is gone! Man, that's going to cost a LOT to fix!

[200Volts]

FYI,
1 mph is about 1.5 feet per second for rough estimations of speed and distance.

[V8Cobrakid]

oh... interesting... so, if she was doing about 20 miles per hour ( i think she was doing a little faster.. ok.. a lot).. then that's 30 feet per second.. if the accident was.. oh.. let's say even 2 second after my green, she would have cleared 90 feet from the time hear light turned red till impact. I think it was more like 5 seconds after. It took me a good two second till i even started to accelerate. the impact was probably 2 to 3 seconds seconds after i started to accelerate.. and with a 1 second delay before my green.. then she traveled (15mph) at least 100 feet... about 108.5 feet. but she wasn't going that slow. Not if she sped up to make the light. and she "thought" the light was still yellow.. yeah... sure.. about 6 to 7 seconds before i hit her.

the light isnt red if she isn't looking at it.. common sense says she wasnt' looking up.. but at the corner to make sure gets through as fast as possible.. after all. she was "going home".. cuz she "got off of work early for once and wanted to get home"


my dad said i should have asked her " why did you run that red light?"

[cmwade77]

Originally posted by V8Cobrakid@Mar 7 2006, 10:26 AM
Thanks guys. I contacted my current insurance agency. The lady laughed when i told her the girl i hit said " i thought it was still yellow"i chuckled too.... My thing is...  in california if you're not through the light by when it turns red, it's illegal.

If that damn huge SUV wasn't beside me i would have seen her.

As for insuranc, police, laywers, etc... a police officer did stop by us. She said we are ok and all we need to do is swap information.

The girl mentions that her shoulder hurts a little.. and i guess head. Too much hot air might be what's making her head hurt.

I'll take pics before the repair. If i can i would rather install the new bumper myself (cheaper)... but i'm hoping the light isn't damaged.. there is a huge paint stripe going across the light. I won't clean it, just so i can claim it as damaged. In my opinion, it is. I haven't tested to see if the auto balancing on the light still works or not. .. hmm..

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Actually in California, if you have entered on the green it is always legal to continue through the intersection (as you need to clear the intersection), if you enter on the yellow and have not cleared by when it is red then it is illegal. Sorry, just needed to clarify, when the light is green and you are trying to turn left you are supposed to enter the middle of the intersection and make the left when safe to do so, even if that is on the yellow or red, as you are already in the middle of the intersection. I almost got a ticket for not pulling into the middle of the intersection on a green light, thus the reason I know this. If you are approaching the light and it is yellow, you should be extremely cautious, if you did not see it chanign from green to yellow you should stop on the yellow.