Hit and Run

Becca and I were going out yes­ter­day evening, so I drive up to her dorm and park on the side of the road, com­pletely out of the way of traffic/vehicles/etc, to wait for her to come down. Becca ends up break­ing a bot­tle in her room so she takes a bit longer than orig­i­nally expected, so I lay back in my seat to take a lit­tle nap.

All of a sud­den *BAM* some­one smacks my car. I’m think­ing, dan­git Becca why’d you run up and hit my car? But then I look over and see a girl in a car start­ing to drive away from my car. I’m like, what the freak? So I hop out, and the girl doesn’t stop. I mem­o­rize the plate num­ber and then chase the girl’s car into the road and then have to pound on her win­dows before she stops. Finally she rolls down her win­dow and is like “oh I didn’t think I actu­ally hit your car”. I’m like riiiggghhhttt..

So any­ways she finally dri­ves back to the scene of the crime and is all “like oh my gosh I totally have never had this hap­pen before” and gives me her insur­ance infor­ma­tion. She then tries to assure me that she wasn’t try­ing to just drive off, but some­how didn’t notice the giant jolt of her car hit­ting mine.

So she dented on of my door pan­els and pretty badly cracked the panel that wraps around the doors. I’m not exactly sure what the next step is. I left mes­sage with my dad so hope­fully he’ll call me back and tell me what to do. The girl wants an esti­mate so she can decide whether to pay out of pocket or claim it on her insur­ance. My guess is it will cost more than she’ll want to pay out of pocket. The panel she broke is pretty big so its like half the car is damaged.

Any­ways, moral of the story: Don’t hit a car and run! I was already whip­ping out my cell phone get­ting ready to report the hit and run. I don’t know what the penalty in Vir­ginia is, but in Cal­i­for­nia it is nor­mally 6 months in jail.

Any­ways, I guess I’m off to the dealer to get an esti­mate on the repairs.