I’ve been driving for 30 years, and I had never had an accident.
I had never had any kind of traffic violation, including a parking ticket.
What happened the day I had my first accident, I do not know. I knew I had to make a left turn, and even when I turned into the right-hand turn lane, I knew I had to turn left. I also knew I should have looked before I turned left from the right-hand turn lane, but I didn’t. My first car accident, my first of any traffic violations, was out of stupidity. I couldn’t even call it an accident. All I saw was the face of that poor HVAC technician behind the wheel of the service van as he hit the front of my car. I pulled my car off into a parking lot that was within 10 feet of where he hit me. The young HVAC tech pulled in behind me. Two minutes later, the police pulled in front of us. I didn’t give the HVAC tech a chance to talk. I told the police officer I had been distracted, pulled into the right turn lane, and then turned left directly in front of the HVAC service van. When he asked if my car was drivable, I told him yes and let them know I already called my insurance company. All I needed to do was get the insurance information from the HVAC technician. The cop wrote up a police report and gave us each a copy. Although the HVAC tech could not have avoided hitting me, he was afraid to call his boss, because it was his first day on the job.
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