My Hit and Run Saga

As I am known to do, I recently had lunch with a friend. When I arrived home I had a message from a man informing me he witnessed my car being hit and made a police report. I took a look at my car and the front license plate area and bumper were crunched! I called back this good citizen and got his report.

He saw a guy try to squeeze into a parking spot on the street and back into my car. He was across the street walking but had stopped to text. He yelled at the guy, “You hit it”, and the guy got out of his car, looked at the damage, looked at the good Samaritan, got back into his car and drove off. The Good Samaritan took down the license plate number of the fleeing driver and called in a police report and called me.  I have my company advertising on my car and the number is my landline. What a great guy the Good Samaritan! What a scumbag the other guy!

I called the police and was told to call it into my insurance and not to get my hopes high that the fleeing guy would be traceable. In fact my somber police contact told me that often people will leave a note on the windshield in such occasions with witnesses and the note often reads, “I hit your car”. It looks to any one passing bye that the offending person is leaving their name and phone and insurance numbers, but of course they are not. The follow-up report I got from the police noted the car registered to some one who is dead!

Three days after the car being backed into I was hit by a similar situation. Waiting in line at the Costco pharmacy, the person in front of me was driving one of those electric scooters. She was talking on her cell phone. When she was called to come forward, still on her cell phone, she put the scooter into reverse. She ran into me. When I exclaimed and knocked into the person behind me, she, still on her phone drove off. The people in line and the Costco pharmacy clerks came to my aid. Luckily I had my cross body purse and it absorbed most of the impact. Also I have pretty good balance and didn’t take down the people in line behind me.

One week later, I am walking through the medical school to get to my exercise class. An aerial tram and elevators transport people to this pedestrian hallway. Many people from the tram bring their bikes. I was walking along and a woman walking her bike hit me from behind. Her bike climbed right up my heel and ankle. She was looking down at her phone and wearing earplugs. Learning my lesson from the Costco incident, a simple exclamation seemed insufficient; I went a bit bat shit crazy. She paused, but then picked up her bike and ran off!

Lessons learned: It feels better to have a fit if hit!

Have you any hit and run away stories to share? Am I the only one with such mishaps?