Snow AND Rain???

[kokopelle]

So I am driving home tonight in a drizzling rain. There were multiple cars pulled along side the highway by police patrol cars. It looked like a series of speed traps. I pulled off to my exit for Laurens. There was another patrol car and more cars. We all stopped and then I was rear ended. A gentlemen clipped my left lights, bumper and side rear panel. Fortunately the rear hatch is mostly undamaged. The accident happened right under the eyes of the city policemen who were tending to another accident. It turns out that the driver who hit me was looking at the action at the side of the road and did not brake fast enough in the rain slick conditions.

The city policeman told me that it was clearly the other person's fault. To wait for a highway patrol person would take several hours as there were accidents all over the place. We instead exchanged information and I get to deal with insurance companies, car repair businesses, and so on. Fun fun. Sigh... My car is drivable, but I don't have rear lights on the left side. I hope I can get something done soon.

The lesson... we drivers in South Carolina seem to be at a disadvantage in snow and rain. I do suspect that this is a universal condition though...

Comments

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that happened today where I live. There was an accident on the north bound and then all the looky-lou's in southbound got into an accident. :P There weren't even any adverse conditions.

[lupagreenwolf.livejournal.com]

Glad you're annoyed rather than injured!

[franciscan.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[breimh.livejournal.com]

As was already said, just glad you weren't injured.

And yes, I believe it is a condition found all over, because when the rains start here, after a dry patch of even a few days, people always seem to forget how to drive for the conditions and we end up with traffic backed up for miles and all manner of accidents along interstates to side roads.

[valleysailor.livejournal.com]

flippin' rubber-neckers! why can't they ever just NOT look?
Glad you are OK, but sorry about the aggrevation that is car repair!