Wednesday: a snowy, slushy-covered road day, where advised-to-stay-at-home, but I didn't.
Roads were traversable but the wife wanted me to take her to the "Fame" building for some volunteer work near Southeastern Ave/Emerson.
Dropped her off at 9:15 am & proceeded to a 10:30 am meeting at Community North for my arthritic lower back that had an inflammation flare-up like never before a couple of weeks ago that stopped me in my tracks for the first time.
Headed north and ended up on Sherman.
Stopped at the light where Washington intersects.
Light turned green for me on Sherman to cross Washington & I pulled away when, "Wham!"
Pics show damage.
I saw the corner of a vehicle at the last minute in my peripheral vision & tried to turn left in the slush to dodge him, but to no avail.
I guess the guy in the pick up was either running the red light or going so fast he couldn't stop at the light with the road slick.
I ended up on the NW side of the intersection.
To get out of the intersection, I drove to the NE side of the road beside the CVS & parked my car up on the side walk with my left wheels still on the turn-in lane for the CVS, which was out of the way.
The guy in the truck sat there a minute in the slow lane on Washington waiting for traffic to get by.
He turned into a gas station across the street I supposed to circle around where I was.
I saw him stop at the station looking at the corner of his bumper, which probably had little damage, then get back into the pickup.
I was waiting for him in my SUV & got out of it with my insurance papers in hand.
He was gone!
I waited 10 minutes incase for some strange reason he went "the long way around" to get to me, but alas, he had vanished!
I called Erie, my insurance, & they said I needed to stay & report the hit-and-run to the police who would want to file a report.
She shared the news that I had a $1000 deductible!
I called 911 & police came, a Kenny Greer, who was there in minutes.
Due to the bad weather, I thought I'd be waiting for 2-3 hours: I was amazed.
I'd texted the wife telling her to get a ride home b/c I would be "tied up."
I went into the CVS to see about their cameras, but theirs weren't working.
Mr. Greer went over to the gas station & checked their cameras & saw the back of him & the side of the truck, but not license number.
By this time I'd cancelled my Dr. appt. & left to go pick up my wife at Fame.
Front door would not open so she had to get in the back seat.
Elizabeth, the person from Erie handling my claim called me w/i an hour, & arranged for me to get a rental.
The claims adjuster called w/i 2 hours.
He is really backed up & said just that day there were already 7 people like myself added to his list.
He is coming Wednesday to look at the car, then I take it to Avon at Diamond Collision.
I called Allen (sponsor here on INGO) at Diamond Collision, INC, in Avon, (West on Rockville/36) to do the work.
He had repaired a dent on my prized Honda S2000, doing impeccably detailed work, making it like new, blending the paint perfectly, even on old 2004 original paint!
He is 40 minutes away from me here in Wanamaker (SE side of Indy, outside of E465 & NE of Greenwood).
I don't mind driving an extra time to Avon on the West side for the peace of mind that it will be done absolutely right!
I hope insurance doesn't total it, since I don't want to buy a car at today's prices, when this one only has 105,000 miles on it.
I had hoped this would be my last vehicle & I planned to put 300-400k miles on it.
Perfect silver-green color & the first vehicle my wife got to have final approval, haha!
Roads were traversable but the wife wanted me to take her to the "Fame" building for some volunteer work near Southeastern Ave/Emerson.
Dropped her off at 9:15 am & proceeded to a 10:30 am meeting at Community North for my arthritic lower back that had an inflammation flare-up like never before a couple of weeks ago that stopped me in my tracks for the first time.
Headed north and ended up on Sherman.
Stopped at the light where Washington intersects.
Light turned green for me on Sherman to cross Washington & I pulled away when, "Wham!"
Pics show damage.
I saw the corner of a vehicle at the last minute in my peripheral vision & tried to turn left in the slush to dodge him, but to no avail.
I guess the guy in the pick up was either running the red light or going so fast he couldn't stop at the light with the road slick.
I ended up on the NW side of the intersection.
To get out of the intersection, I drove to the NE side of the road beside the CVS & parked my car up on the side walk with my left wheels still on the turn-in lane for the CVS, which was out of the way.
The guy in the truck sat there a minute in the slow lane on Washington waiting for traffic to get by.
He turned into a gas station across the street I supposed to circle around where I was.
I saw him stop at the station looking at the corner of his bumper, which probably had little damage, then get back into the pickup.
I was waiting for him in my SUV & got out of it with my insurance papers in hand.
He was gone!
I waited 10 minutes incase for some strange reason he went "the long way around" to get to me, but alas, he had vanished!
I called Erie, my insurance, & they said I needed to stay & report the hit-and-run to the police who would want to file a report.
She shared the news that I had a $1000 deductible!
I called 911 & police came, a Kenny Greer, who was there in minutes.
Due to the bad weather, I thought I'd be waiting for 2-3 hours: I was amazed.
I'd texted the wife telling her to get a ride home b/c I would be "tied up."
I went into the CVS to see about their cameras, but theirs weren't working.
Mr. Greer went over to the gas station & checked their cameras & saw the back of him & the side of the truck, but not license number.
By this time I'd cancelled my Dr. appt. & left to go pick up my wife at Fame.
Front door would not open so she had to get in the back seat.
Elizabeth, the person from Erie handling my claim called me w/i an hour, & arranged for me to get a rental.
The claims adjuster called w/i 2 hours.
He is really backed up & said just that day there were already 7 people like myself added to his list.
He is coming Wednesday to look at the car, then I take it to Avon at Diamond Collision.
I called Allen (sponsor here on INGO) at Diamond Collision, INC, in Avon, (West on Rockville/36) to do the work.
He had repaired a dent on my prized Honda S2000, doing impeccably detailed work, making it like new, blending the paint perfectly, even on old 2004 original paint!
He is 40 minutes away from me here in Wanamaker (SE side of Indy, outside of E465 & NE of Greenwood).
I don't mind driving an extra time to Avon on the West side for the peace of mind that it will be done absolutely right!
I hope insurance doesn't total it, since I don't want to buy a car at today's prices, when this one only has 105,000 miles on it.
I had hoped this would be my last vehicle & I planned to put 300-400k miles on it.
Perfect silver-green color & the first vehicle my wife got to have final approval, haha!
ty sitch. Hope they don't total it either. Good choice on the repair shop, Allen does great work.
