Crazy drivers!
I forgot to tell you all what happened here yesterday morning!
The teens were like 1/2 a minute late leaving for school, and as soon as Mark put his hand on the doorknob to go out, both he and Sebastian heard tires squealing, crashing noises, and car underbelly scraping noises on pavement, and they opened the door and ran out in time to see the tail end of a red truck speeding off.
That's when they saw the damage that the driver had done.
I don't know if the driver was drunk and thinking he was on an episode of COPS being filmed live in las vegas nevada, or not paying attention, or asleep at the wheel, but wait till you see what he did to our property.
This is crazy!
This is the ditch he drove into first. If you look at the upper left of the photo, you can see where he first started swerving in. He came inches away from taking out another house's mailbox.
In the lower right, you can see where the underbelly of his truck scraped across my driveway.
These ditches are about 3-4 feet deep by the way, so this truck really scraped in there hard.
This is the mailbox post of my duplex neighbor's side, now in the driveway, with more scrape marks and tire marks as well.
This is my side of the property, the ditch on my side, my mailbox post, the neighbor's side mailbox is in MY ditch, and my mailbox ended up on my lawn. More scrape marks in the bottom of the picture, and look at how deep he was into my ditch, just look at how much he tore it up with his tires and the underbelly of his truck.
He tore up all that dirt at the top of the picture before he finally swerved back out onto the road.
This is where my mailbox landed. I have blurred out my numbers for safety.
If Mark and Sebastian had left on time, just 30 seconds earlier, they would have been hit by this truck at the end of our driveway.
They leave our house and go to the left down the street, to make their way to school.
Can you believe this?!
I called my landlord, left him a message to come by, and he was just shocked.
He's a sheriff, so he filed a report, and also notified a few local car repair places that he knows and is friends with, to be on the lookout for a red truck with some major front end and underside damage.
Whoever did this, suffered some major damage to their vehicle.
Comments
I am just amazed that the person just kept on going! I really hope they find out who did this.
It is a very good thing the boys were running late. I don't even want to think about what could have happened it they weren't.
Posted by: Mindy | October 10, 2008 3:34 PM
I know, I cannot believe they kept going, that the truck was still able to keep going.
They nailed that drain pipe at the end of my ditch, backed up, tried to drive out, had to back up again, sped up and run his tires in the grass and dirt, and then hauled ass outta here.
And yes, I'm so glad the boys were running a wee bit late.
When I saw all that happened, realized where they would have been walking if they had left on time, I don't even want to think about how badly they could have been hurt or killed.
Posted by: Kat | October 10, 2008 4:02 PM
Holy crap! We deal with that kind of stuff out here in the country too, but WOW, that's a heck of a lot of damage they caused to not have stopped! I can only imagine how bad the truck looks! I'm REALLY glad to hear that the boys weren't anywhere near the road when this happened! Strange how things turn out like that sometimes, isn't it?
Posted by: Holly | October 10, 2008 4:05 PM
Holy cow - thank goodness your boys are ok!
Posted by: robyn | October 10, 2008 4:21 PM
That's SCARY. Glad it was just the mail box that got tagged.
Posted by: Ms. Single Mama | October 10, 2008 8:57 PM
Wow! And here I thought Masshole drivers were the worst!
I think the jerk was nine sheets to the wind. He probably thinks he got off the hook because there wasn't a cop around to stop him. He probably wouldn't even have stopped if he'd hit people. Thank goodness the boys weren't in the path of this idiot.
I hope they do find this asshole and charge him as necessary. Sadly, they probably can't hit him with a DUI, since they didn't catch him and do a breathalyzer on the spot. But at least he can be hit with a reckless driving charge.
Some people should not be allowed to drive.
Posted by: Christine | October 11, 2008 4:17 AM
Holy crap, batman! I always tell the boys that I don't worry so much about them doing stupid stuff when they're out - it's the other people that worry me.
Posted by: Chickie | October 11, 2008 10:17 PM
Yup, ain't that the truth. It's not you as the driver on the road you have to think about doing stupid shit like accidentally running a red light, it's the other people who RUN red lights on purpose you have to watch out for.
I really hope that one of the car repair places in the area, reports this truck as a suspicious accident vehicle, and the police get the guy.
He did some hefty damage to the property, and my landlord is pissed about that.
I'm surprised that the cement driveway that he scraped the underbelly on, didn't rip off his muffler or fuck up his gas tank.
The landlord was here again today fixing the mailbox posts and attaching the mailboxes to them, and he found part of the guys bumper in my side ditch.
With that, he can get a make and model of the truck that did this. the CSI people can easily match it he said, and then he'll know what to report to the repair places.
But can you imagine what would have happened if my boys had left on time?
If they had been ready to leave at exactly 6:45am?
This guy would have either nailed them right at the driveway, or to the left of it as the driver was barreling down the street, one wheel in the road and one wheel in the left duplex side ditch.
He would have killed my sons.
That has had me shaken up pretty bad thinking about the what if.
I know it didn't happen and it's all over now, but knowing that they were a mere 30 seconds away from being killed, is pretty upsetting.
Posted by: Kat | October 11, 2008 10:33 PM
Wow, that's scary. To think that if they hadn't been running late they might have been hit. Damn but people suck.
Posted by: Joana | October 12, 2008 4:35 AM