Locust Cutter
Air Force Redneck
Yes Steve, thank you for asking.
A girl cut me off in bumper-to-bumper stop and go highway traffic. About 30 sec to a minute later (after my blood pressure temporarily lowered) I had a 3-3.5 car gap between us. We were ranging from standing still to 30mph on a 2 lane highway heading South into Norfolk. I checked my passenger side mirror and blind spot to see if I could get over (2-3 sec). When I looked back, I hit her, knocking her Nissan Sentra into a Porsche Cayenne. No one was hurt, all walked away and all 3 vehicles were drivable. Unfortunately She was tailgating the porsche which helped to take it from a two car to three car incident. I was so pissed off I couldn't see straight.
Ultimately, the VA Statie who stopped was nice enough NOT to file a report or give me a ticket as there were no injuries, all vehicles were operable and he had two previously occurred wrecks pending. Since I was on gov't orders and I wasn't otherwise breaking any laws, it looks like the A.F. will pickup the tab (hopefully) as we're still going around with USAA over Shalie's 2013 Passat TDI which was totalled in a non-insured hit-and-run about 4 weeks ago. Beyond the already mentioned misfortune, since her car was caught in the EPA crap, the car booked out at 23K 14 months ago and now books out for 11.8K... I owe 11.9K and they'll give me 12.5K if I walk away or 10.8 if I keep it so we're talking with lawyer on that one as replacements in like condition/trim are selling for well over book at 14-19k.
If we keep it until around the end of the year, VW will be issuing two payments for those who wish to sell their cars back to VW: a depreciation payment of 6-10K and a clean retail payment (regardless of condition) of current market value. that should put us between the 17-22K mark for a busted car (which is technically fixable but will never be right, nor treated the same by insurance in the event of another accident)... And will pay off two other car loans in the process effectively freeing up around $900/month between full-coverage ins and payments though we will have to find her another vehicle so lieky the actual savings will be around $500 which is still damn nice.
And, shalie may have come down with Mono in my absence... Either way, Cobey has it a lot worse, but this crap is getting old... LOL
