When it rains it pours!<br /><br /><br />The Wife smashed up our 1993 Nissan Quest van today. <br /><br />Thank God she's OK, and our kids wasn't with her!<br /><br /><br />She rear-ended another car. <br />Apparently, the person she hit stopped suddenly to make a right turn. There was NO way the Wife could have stopped in time. The only thing she could do was turn the van to the right to avoid hitting the car square on. <br />According to the officer who took the report, he said if my Wife had not turned her car the way she did, she would have sent the person she hit into major traffic.<br /><br />The person she hit came out of her car like a swarm of bees and verbally assaulted my Wife.<br />(term used by my insurance company)<br />Obviously the woman wasn't hurt, as she was able to yell, scream, and pound on my Wife's car window.<br /><br />We'll see what happens. I know it's a general "your fault' if you rear-end someone, but I think we have a good case against the other person.<br />The officer has to measure my Wife's skid marks and such before they determine what happens I guess.<br /><br />You law dogs out here have any ideas what might happen?<br /><br />Anyone in the auto body parts business?<br /><br />It took out the drivers fender, headlamp, turn signal, bumper valance/cover, hood, and the radiator support.<br /><br />There are other misc. parts in there that I can no longer identify.<br /><br />The insurance companies are hammering our who was at fault, but I need to make the van legal to drive for now. All I really need is the headlamp and hood for now.<br />I don't want to spend a bunch of money if we end up getting the van fixed by the other person's insurance company.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />H.
