Idsynchrono_24
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I apologize in advance for the length of this post, but I couldn't make it any shorter without eliminating any crucial details. Any help at all is greatly appreciated. So this is what happened:
My car was sideswiped by a truck on Aug. 6 in my apartment parking lot while going around a corner while heading to work. I collected the offender's name, address and phone number since he lives right next to me in hopes of calling him later during the day and he collects my info as well. Needless to say, everytime I call, he is not available. I leave a message, and he does not call back. I had to go to his apartment to try to collect insurance information from him.
When I get there, he tells me that his insurance info is at his parent's
residence, and that he would have it for me in a week when he heads to Illinois for his birthday. I asked him if he couldn't just call them, and he says that they never pick up. I asked him about not answering the phone and he tells me that he works the night shift and is asleep all day, and that if I didn't leave a message, he wouldn't respond since he received hundreds of calls a day. I told him that I did leave a message, and asked him if he saved my contact info to his phone. His reply was, "no."
At this point, I should have realized that something was wrong but decided to foolishly have a little faith in this guy because he constantly reassured me that it would get taken care of. At one point he mentions talking to his mom about the accident and said that even though she was pissed off, he said, "it's gotta get fixed mom, it's gotta get fixed." I didn't really think of it at that moment, but that was the red flag. If he talked to his mom about it, shouldn't it have been vital to collect insurance info right then and there if he was so adamant about it being fixed?
A week blows by and I call him after 7 PM (which is when he said he is up and about), and no reply. I call once every hour and leave a message. No response. Two days later, I'm driving back from school and see him outside and stop immediately to talk to him. He tells me that he called me at 2 AM, and was banging on my door earlier. That's funny, my phone has NO record of him calling at all, and someone's always home to hear if someone's knocking. I ask him for the insurance info and he says he doesn't have it, his whole family was dropped when he reported the incident. I thought it shouldn't matter, because if the incident happened when he had insurance, he should be in the clear.
He goes on to reassure me that it will get done, that he's got guys looking for a new fender for me etc. and that he'd swing around Sunday to jack up my car to hammer out the dent that's scraping my tire with a rubber mallet. Sunday swings around and he never calls, never knocks, never shows up. At this point (a week and a half ago) I'm pretty damn sure that he's not going to do anything unless he's forced to. I've gotten two estimates for my car repair today; so at this point, should I just take this guy to court, or attempt to get him to sign a contract to fix my car or what? I'm not very legal saavy and would like some advice as to how to pursue this so that my car can be rightfully fixed. Thanks so much guys.
My car was sideswiped by a truck on Aug. 6 in my apartment parking lot while going around a corner while heading to work. I collected the offender's name, address and phone number since he lives right next to me in hopes of calling him later during the day and he collects my info as well. Needless to say, everytime I call, he is not available. I leave a message, and he does not call back. I had to go to his apartment to try to collect insurance information from him.
When I get there, he tells me that his insurance info is at his parent's
residence, and that he would have it for me in a week when he heads to Illinois for his birthday. I asked him if he couldn't just call them, and he says that they never pick up. I asked him about not answering the phone and he tells me that he works the night shift and is asleep all day, and that if I didn't leave a message, he wouldn't respond since he received hundreds of calls a day. I told him that I did leave a message, and asked him if he saved my contact info to his phone. His reply was, "no."
At this point, I should have realized that something was wrong but decided to foolishly have a little faith in this guy because he constantly reassured me that it would get taken care of. At one point he mentions talking to his mom about the accident and said that even though she was pissed off, he said, "it's gotta get fixed mom, it's gotta get fixed." I didn't really think of it at that moment, but that was the red flag. If he talked to his mom about it, shouldn't it have been vital to collect insurance info right then and there if he was so adamant about it being fixed?
A week blows by and I call him after 7 PM (which is when he said he is up and about), and no reply. I call once every hour and leave a message. No response. Two days later, I'm driving back from school and see him outside and stop immediately to talk to him. He tells me that he called me at 2 AM, and was banging on my door earlier. That's funny, my phone has NO record of him calling at all, and someone's always home to hear if someone's knocking. I ask him for the insurance info and he says he doesn't have it, his whole family was dropped when he reported the incident. I thought it shouldn't matter, because if the incident happened when he had insurance, he should be in the clear.
He goes on to reassure me that it will get done, that he's got guys looking for a new fender for me etc. and that he'd swing around Sunday to jack up my car to hammer out the dent that's scraping my tire with a rubber mallet. Sunday swings around and he never calls, never knocks, never shows up. At this point (a week and a half ago) I'm pretty damn sure that he's not going to do anything unless he's forced to. I've gotten two estimates for my car repair today; so at this point, should I just take this guy to court, or attempt to get him to sign a contract to fix my car or what? I'm not very legal saavy and would like some advice as to how to pursue this so that my car can be rightfully fixed. Thanks so much guys.
