How a Car Accident Almost Ruined My North Carolina Trip

Usually my drive from New York to North Carolina is painless. It takes me about ten hours of driving to finally arrive in North Carolina. All of my trips to North Carolina and back to New York have always been free from problems, until about a month ago. I was once again on my way to North Carolina driving my own vehicle when I was struck by another driver in Virginia. As soon as the accident happened all I could think about was how my trip was going to be ruined. Now I was going to be late arriving, my passenger window was blown out, and it was raining. It just seemed like it couldn't get any worse. But it did.

The first mistake I made was to move my vehicle from one side of the road to the other. When the accident happened I was traveling in the far left lane of a five lane interstate. The other driver was in the adjacent lane and came into my lane and hit me. We moved our vehicles because they were in a dangerous spot on the road where we could have been hit again. I should have taken pictures because when the police showed up they couldn't tell what happened. Of course it turned into "he said, she said" and because I was out of state the police officer blamed me for the accident.

When the officer asked me what happened I was still shaking from the accident and mumbled between tears " I don't know". The officer than spoke to the other driver and that's when it got worse. Come to find out the other driver had been a Virginia drivers instructor for over eight years, and it was obvious that the officer knew her. After I had calmed down I asked the officer if I could make a statement and he told me no. He also said that he would not take a statement from my passenger. The officer said everything would be included in the accident report and that I could obtain a copy in ten days. Then he told me to wait in my car.