By some idiot that really should learn the basic rules of the road before he's out driving a commercial vehicle.
I'm on my way to work, a bit late (9:30am), driving down Arrowcreek Parkway. I'm comming up on the Zolezzi Lane intersection, going about the 35 mph speed limit. Guy in a small panel truck is coming the other direction. We both have green lights of course. However, this genius decides to make an illegal u-turn into oncoming traffic (me). He whips the truck around just as I'm entering the intersection. So I'm full on the brakes, and the horn (eat SuperTones dirtbag) and I know I'm still going to hit him, so I angle the car right and put it up on the curb.
Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to avoid the accident entirely. Dick-hole's truck takes off my driver's side mirror. To be honest I'm really lucky the car didn't just get totaled. If the ass end of the truck had hit the side of the car and taken out a window or something... the repair bill probably would have been more than the car's worth.
Anyway. I'm honking like a crazy person w/ my 118db horns and this guy just drives away! So I floor it, and chase his ass down to the gas station on the corner of Arrowcreek and S. Virginia. He pulles in there, and I follow him. He's still ignoring my honking, and doesn't stop the truck until we're well into the back parking lot of the businesses there. Finally he stops and I'm out of the car in super-fly-TNT pissed off mode... which is no wonder why he doesn't want to get out of the truck and cracks the window.
Me: "HEY! YOU JUST HIT ME BACK THERE!"
Him: "What? Where?"
Me: "You just hit me when you made that illegal u-turn at Zolezzi!"
Him: "Really, I didn't see anybody."
Me: "Well you took off my damn mirror!"
After that I calmed down and we exchanged info. He called his boss and was told to give my all the insurance info, but to tell me they'd rather replace the mirror out of pocket rather than to involve the insurance companies. Of course that's understandable... but they're going to be a little upset, as I'll bet a mirror for the SVX will run in the $250-$300 range, plus painting and installation... probably around $800. Plus I need to get the wheel and suspension checked out after driving it up on the curb... at least I was on the stock 16" wheels... the Enkies would have been demolished.
So, I need to bring it to a body shop for an estimate and fax it over to these guys. Plus I'm contacting my insurance as well to see what they want to do, and to see if I should file a police report so I have record of the incident.
I knew it was only a matter of time before someone's dumbass driving got me. I have to say, I actually feel pretty lucky... just an instant longer reaction time from me would have meant putting the motor of the SVX right under that truck's bumper... and that would have been that for the SVX.
