Car totalled by an uninsured illegal immigrant with no license

[lasersailor184]

Your saying immigrant... this is not an immigrant.... immigrants are here legally. This guy is a federally sponsored crook. Weekend before last a friend of mine was hit on his harley. All three in the car were illigals, no insurance, no license. My friend is laid up in the hospitol and might lose a leg. The illegals are in jail. In my view the federal government is at fault.

I firmly believe that if illegals kill eachother the police should let them. As far as our government is concerned illegals do not exist here. If a crime is commited against an illegal... do not investigate it. If an illegal needs medical care... they can go over the border and get it..... they do not exist here.

I think that until the government is willing to kick their tulips out with EXTREME PREJUDICE, then the government must accept fiscal liability for all things the illegals do in America.

This is not to be paid with out of the general tax fund, but out of the politician's salaries.

[Airhead]

Glad to hear you are ok.  Don't worry, the libs will be along soon to tell you it's not the illegal immigrant's fault he didn't have insurance.  It's all George Bush's fault.

LOL Steve, funny considering it's the Neocons who oppose letting illegals have drivers' licenses. 

[john9001]

i am so confused, i thought a person was not allowed to drive a car unless they had a drivers license and insurance.

i can't believe people would deliberately brake the LAW. 

[SteveBailey]

See Rules #4, #5

[REP0MAN]

LOL Steve, funny considering it's the Neocons who oppose letting illegals have drivers' licenses. 

I'm not a NeoCon and I oppose it. I oppose their very existence and demand for citizen's rights too. And I'd call myself more center than Steve.

[68ZooM]

I never mentioned a driver's license.  Try to focus so you can actually type something of relevence.

Nothing better than compassionate conservative republicans, always with the quick comeback slam  OH How original    

[LTARGlok]

Ouch. Stopped behind another car waiting on a bus to turn into a neighborhood. I look up in the rearview and see a white blur and hear tires squealing. He hit me doing 40+. I hit the car in front of me, and careened into the ditch. The airbag sent my glasses to the rear of the SUV. My dog boucned off the windshield. Then I saw smoke, didn't know wtf it was, couldn't open my door, and went scrambling out the passenger window with the dog in tow. Just cuts & bruises for me. My dog broke his leg and has surgery tommorrow (he'll be fine thankfully. I care more about my dog than the SUV).

The guy that hit me... illegal immigrant. No license, no insurance.
He tried to run off, but the police response time was < 2 minutes. He's in jail now.

The car that I was pushed into was a rental car. The girl had been in an accident 4 days before. She was fine, and her car is fixable.

My 4Runner is totalled.  You can't see the extent of the damage in the pics (camera died), but the frame is bent. The tow hitch was bent 90 degrees downwards. None of the doors will open or close without a lot of brute force. Hood is creased, fenders trashed, roof is bent, quarterpanels are bent, windshield broken, airbags deployed, frame pieces sticking out of the front valance, and god knows what engine damage.

Good news is that my insurance has both rental car & uninsured driver coverage. The 4Runner was paid off, so the settlement will be the downpayment for something new.

I hope you are still feeling OK.   Some injuries like whiplash don't always manifest themselves immediately after an accident.   Be sure to see a doctor, just in case.

Just think what would have happened to that poor girl in front of you, if your car had not been there, and this alien had instead slammed into her small rental car.   Now that would of been a really nasty collision.   She would have been seriously hurt, no doubt.   In a way, you really were a guardian angel for her protection.

That is great you have such good insurance.   However, this alien still handed you a really raw deal here.   Your 4Runner looks practically new, so you obviously took great care of it.   They last forever too, so you would of still had many more years of service left in the vehicle.   Instead, you now have to start making car payments again.   Very bum deal indeed.

The most important thing, though, is that you and your dog are OK.  People put down SUV's so much these days, but your vehicle obviously took this blow very well.  Think of what would of happened to you if you had been driving a Prius?   

The alien most likely ran because I think that most drivers in your situation would have tried to beat the %$#@% out of him.

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[LTARGlok]

i am so confused, i thought a person was not allowed to drive a car unless they had a drivers license and insurance.

i can't believe people would deliberately brake the LAW. 

Many states don't give drivers licenses to illegal aliens, though.   So if they want to drive here, they are forced to break the law.

This sort of scenario is one of the reasons that pro-immigration folks cite when pushing to give illegal aliens the right to get a driver's license.

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[Holden McGroin]

LOL Steve, funny considering it's the Neocons who oppose letting illegals have drivers' licenses. 

So if this illegal, who is here illegally, had obtained a valid drivers licence, validating his illegality, so he could illegally obtain all that is available to him (including voting) if he were legal, which he is not - as he is here illegally, then this would not have happened.

   

[indy007]

Thanks for the well wishes guys. The SUV is a goner. I should get 6-7k for it, and because I have smart parents that taught me well, my tier 1 credit is going to be me something new & spiffy (with good milage for once).

Now I have to plug my insurance. State Farm has been awesome. My rental is already waiting. I'm fully covered, my rate will not be going up, and they're even covering my dog's initial vet visit and tomorrow' surgery ($400 first visit, surgery will probably be 1k+). If you're in Houston, you can't go wrong with my agent. There's no way in hell they'll ever get a dime out of that guy, but their level of service has been fantastic.

...and now, I'm off to get x-rays to make sure I won't have any nasty suprises.

Totally not the day I was expecting to have.


oh, and regarding the police response time. That's actually normal for this neighborhood (my home office is in it). It's over a mile across, has a fire department, and a school. Many people like to cut through and avoid the highway traffic. There's also 4 other school zones and a massive public park surrounding it on 2 other sides. The constables love to hide around the swimming pools and nail people running stop signs (such as my last ticket about 4 years ago). They're always right around the corner... and because it's going to be fodder for a gun debate later, yes, I have pistols in this house. 2 minutes still isn't fast enough if you're in a situation where somebody needs to be shot. I'm just glad I didn't lose my cool, put the guy in a lateral-vascular restraint, and end up getting an assault charge & strip search for my efforts.

[Yeager]

I hope they send him to prison and when he is done there send his bellybutton back to the deepest part of whereverthehell he came from.

[Jackal1]

  So if they want to drive here, they are forced to break the law.

They are already breaking the law. The term illegal should be the first hint.

[Neubob]

LOL Steve, funny considering it's the Neocons who oppose letting illegals have drivers' licenses. 

So they should be given licenses because they'll be driving anyway? What sort of spineless approach to a problem is that? What's the next step? Give them citizenship because they'll be crossing the border illegally no matter what we do?

[Holden McGroin]

What sort of spineless approach to a problem is that?

A Paleolib one.

[Maverick]

Indy,

When you get a chance I'd get a copy of the collision report for your own records, even if you have to pay for it at the PD. If you were not advised at the scene the report should have the owner info on the car that hit you. Perhaps it wasn't the driver that owns it.

Secondly do not sign any release, even to your insurance company until you are sure your medical situation is over and done with. Once the chior of fat ladies sing then consider it.