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Quoted: Welcome to my world.
I had one hit me, then sue me for $35K.
And win.
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I was in 1994. I was driving a work pickup truck and running errands. I stopped by my PO Box along the way.
The drive to leave the PO was very narrow, and a larger truck was in the right turn lane to pull into the Post Office. He couldn’t get in with me there.
He waved me forward. I refused to go (having heard about accidents like these before). He waved a few more times and then started to get pissed. I looked to the left a couple of times, saw no cars and saw that the stop light about a block away was red.
I turned right.
After turning right, I decided to do a U-turn. I changed lanes twice to the left and as I slowed down for the turn, I was struck in the drivers-side rear f the vehicle.
The driver of the POS bondo and primer colored car hit me at about 10 MPH, but had to cross three lanes to do it. Apparently, she was stopped behind the truck, saw me pull out and followed me across a couple of lanes to hit me.
Her and her friend both spoke no English, and had apparently started their own house cleaning business THAT DAY. They maintained that they were injured in the accident, and couldn’t work for 6 months.
They got a very slick layer and sued me for $35K, which the insurance company paid out without fighting it.
About that time, my sister was a victim of a “swap and squat” here too. In her case, she was boxed in by two cars, and a third cut her off and slammed on his brakes. They totaled her Toyota 4 Runner, and several illegal aliens in the front car sued her. I think she won the case because they could show that all of those illegals were involved in about 6 or 7 other cases exactly like hers…
It happens quite a bit here…