I'm having the worst year of car ownership ever with my NSX this year. First, I ding things up in November. Then, yesterday, I got backed into while filling up at a gas station. The worst part is, all of the information I got from the guy (insurance, driver's license, etc) is phony, and I was too stupid to check and verify.
I decided to drive down to LA, from SF yesterday to meet my father, who had a 12 hour layover at LAX. I was planning on driving down in the morning, and driving back up at night. It's about a 5 hour drive each way, and I was really enjoying myself.
The bad news happened on my way home. I was gassing up at around 1045pm in Coalinga, CA off of I-5 and rt198. I was a bit woozy and wasn't thinking that straight. I'm filling up the car at a shell and then go in to use the bathroom. When I come out, a security guy was waiting for me by my car, along with a guy driving a 1992 Ford F-150. The driver had backed into my passenger side door, putting a large gouge into the panel.
He appeared really apologetic and immediately wrote down his insurance and driver's license information on a piece of paper. I thought about calling the police, but it was late, I had been driving a really long time and just wanted to go home, so I took the guy at face value. He seemed honest and decent and I thought I had everything I needed. *Critical note here* I didn't get the license plate of his car, stupidly. I cant believe I missed that.
So I call allstate (his and my insurance company) and his policy is bogus. I call all of the numbers he's given me, one is a fax, one is a wrong number. I look up his address on mapquest and the zip code doesn't match the city. Basically, I'm completely screwed by this guy.
The only additional piece of information I have is a driver's license number he wrote down. I dont think thats goign to be right either. I called the security guard who witnessed the accident. THe guy only works saturdays, so I'll have to call back next week, but his report didn't take down any information, except that the name of the guy he took down was william penn.
I'm gathering that I"m screwed here and am chalking it up to my stupidity for not gathering and checking the right information, but is there anything else I can do?
I decided to drive down to LA, from SF yesterday to meet my father, who had a 12 hour layover at LAX. I was planning on driving down in the morning, and driving back up at night. It's about a 5 hour drive each way, and I was really enjoying myself.
The bad news happened on my way home. I was gassing up at around 1045pm in Coalinga, CA off of I-5 and rt198. I was a bit woozy and wasn't thinking that straight. I'm filling up the car at a shell and then go in to use the bathroom. When I come out, a security guy was waiting for me by my car, along with a guy driving a 1992 Ford F-150. The driver had backed into my passenger side door, putting a large gouge into the panel.
He appeared really apologetic and immediately wrote down his insurance and driver's license information on a piece of paper. I thought about calling the police, but it was late, I had been driving a really long time and just wanted to go home, so I took the guy at face value. He seemed honest and decent and I thought I had everything I needed. *Critical note here* I didn't get the license plate of his car, stupidly. I cant believe I missed that.
So I call allstate (his and my insurance company) and his policy is bogus. I call all of the numbers he's given me, one is a fax, one is a wrong number. I look up his address on mapquest and the zip code doesn't match the city. Basically, I'm completely screwed by this guy.
The only additional piece of information I have is a driver's license number he wrote down. I dont think thats goign to be right either. I called the security guard who witnessed the accident. THe guy only works saturdays, so I'll have to call back next week, but his report didn't take down any information, except that the name of the guy he took down was william penn.
I'm gathering that I"m screwed here and am chalking it up to my stupidity for not gathering and checking the right information, but is there anything else I can do?
