California Car Show gone BAD!!!

I forget just how much proof-reading is really necessary with this crowd.

 

We're watching you!!!

Stop watching me!!!

Too late!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Well okay...

 

In the case of the car show incident, what can you do? It was an accident - a preventable one, but an accident still the same. Just shows you that if you have a collector, custom or any kind of 'special' vehicle, make sure you have it insured for an agreed-upon stated amount of coverage.

The lady in the Lexus (?) was probably embarassed enough with the whole incident.

This type of 'distracted driving' accident is getting all too common these days, BTW.......


Marshall

 

If it's preventable, it's not an accident in my book. I prefer to call them collisions. Calling it an accident takes the fault off of anybody.

 

what if you happened to be in-front of the wrong car at the wrong time?
you were "accidently" there?

 

I agree with where you're heading. I think far too many people pay poor or no attention to what they're doing and then toss out "It was an accident" to absolve themselves of responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

We don't really know at this point what led up to this woman hitting that car really. Unless there's a mechanical reason for that throttle opening wide enough to make a car jump a median in a parking lot, and seriously damaging not one but two vehicles it's likely that the cause was a driver not in proper care and control of their vehicle. A parking lot should be somewhere in which vehicles should never be traveling fast enough to do the sort of damage the photos indicate unless someone was doing something that they shouldn't be, either through ignorance or ineffectiveness at driving a vehicle. Assuming all of this to be true I don't think I would use the term accident.

 

Was this show in Lancaster or Palmdale? I wondered since you are from Ridgecrest.

 

That incident was in Southern California somewhere - I don't think anyone has pinned down the exact location. Maybe the guys on the H.A.M.B. have figurered it out. I was thinking somewhere in the San Gabriel valley myself - Diamond Bar / Walnut / Alhambra, etc....

Don't make the mistake of thinking there are no consequences for the lady in the Lexus. Her insurance rates will undoubtedly go up. If she's older, she could even lose her driving priveledges.

If she carries low property damage limits on her insurance policy, she could even be sued for some of the damage she caused. I looked at a Class A motorhome the other day. It was towing a Dodge Dakota P/U and there was a dirt bike hanging off the back of the Dakota on a rack. An AAA insured fell asleep at the wheel, crossed a divided highway and slammed into the left side of the motorhome going the other way. Motorhome sustained lots of damage down the side, and the Dakota got blasted with debris. Final score - $37,000 damage to the motorhome, $2,200 damage to the Dakota, and the $500 dirt bike was toast. Total damage of almost $40,000. The AAA insured carried only $25,000 in property damage coverage. The motorhome insurer is going to want some money from her........