Hit Neighbor's son's car tonight!!!

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izzblizz

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So freaking annoyed. And although we have a pretty good relationship with our neighbor's this led to a whole lot of swearing before I said to my bf "calm down" and go ring the doorbell.

So here is the deal. We are at the end of the road on a dead end street. To back out of our garage, we have to back straight up into a longer driveway with kind of a parking pad at the back end (belonging to us). Then pull forward a little bit to get onto the road. It is kind if hard to explain. But anyway, back out tonight in the dark, and thunk!! The kid has parked his black sports car in our driveway, in the parking pad part!! So our SUV hits it. (totally didn't see it, there aren't street lights or anything) Went over and knocked on the door, and his little sister (10, who babysits our cats while on vacation) answered it and said he is out with the parents. Haven't heard from then yet, but expect to in the morning.

Oh, and last Sunday night he parked it on the main road, just off of the spur, and it snowed 8 inches and had we to get out Monday morning, and snowplow couldn't get to our spur because of his car parked on the main road, just off our spur. They were very apologetic, and luckily our snowplow driver saw that it had been moved on his second pass (after talking to neighbors and saying, I don't think the snowplow made it down here cause there is a CAR on the main road before ours).

And I don't get WHY it isn't parked in their own driveway in front of their own garage!! I know they have two cars in their garage, but they have a parking spot in front of their garage!! Totally pissed. It may be inconvenient to move it in and out if want to take one of your other cars out, but jeepers.

And this better not be going on our insurance, cause it was parked without permission on our private drive!! There is never a car parked there unless we or one of our guests is parked there!!

Hopefully they will take responsibility for it. Our bumper is cracked, and his has a dent that could see in the dark. Might be more visible damage in morning.

Thanks for letting me vent, feel better now!!!!!!!
 
I am SO glad I live in the country! My niece lives in the city and has to share a driveway with her neighbors also who is quick to point out when she sneezes in their direction, but manages to block them in quite a bit...what a pain!

IF I was his parents I would be mad at him! It would be his responsibility to get out and move the car from in front of the garage when they were ready to leave...that should just be a given!

Good luck and try to keep from pulling the rest of your bumper off and hitting the kid with it :laughing:
 
We kinda of live in suburbia/mountain area. Have 2 acres of open space on one side (where all the windows are stragtegically placed), and then our neighbors, who are close on the other side, but we DON'T share a driveway, this is OUR driveway! I actually thought WTF did we hit one of our boulders? We have huge boulders around the drive area. I thought one of them had somehow tumbled into our Driveway or something! That was my first thought. Until we both hopped out and went :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing:
 
:popcorn: So sorry to hear about your accident. We have a double wide drive that is shared with the house in back of ours. I can be a real pain in the :cussing:. Especially since they have traffic in and out all day long. It's a real pain when it gets warm and the dust starts flying from cars going too fast up and down the drive.
We do use our other neighbors driveway/parking area when we have alot of company, but even as close as we our to all our neighbors I wouldn't do it without asking first. I am surprised since he knows you that he didn't at least knock on your door to ask. If you had seen the car and didn't know who it had belonged to you would have had every right to have it towed away at their expense. Hope it all gets worked out.
 
Weird thing is the Parents have come over and informed us if they were having a party or something. And we have said, well if you need extra parking, feel free to park along the road between your house and ours, or in our driveway. And we have done the same for parties, letting them know, but we can generally get a few cars in our area without having to infringe on their ability to get out (since we are at a dead end).

But then we would at least know! There was no excuse for parking in our driveway this time. Their driveway in front of their garage is totally empty!

Like I said, we generally have a good and friendly relationship. Their daughter catsits, and we exchange Christmas presents and all that. Just hoping this doesn't spoil our relationship and amicably work it out, but it is just a total pain in the butt to deal with.
 
I would contact the police and make a report if they hem and haw more than a day. I understand you have a "friendly" relationship but he was illegally on your property.
 
gorgor said:
I would contact the police and make a report if they hem and haw more than a day. I understand you have a "friendly" relationship but he was illegally on your property.
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I agree here. It is wise to always have a paper trail of some sort, to use as evidence of any accident or crime. Because as soon as you think you won't need any paperwork or evidence, you'll find yourself on Judge Judy, in front of millions of people, airing your laundry and being yelled at by the Judge for not having any evidence to support your case.

If the neighbors don't like you making a police report, oh well. You just have to explain to them that your property was damaged and that you are merely making a record of it. You just know the neighbors would do it to YOU... :crazytongue:
 
Well, just and update.

We ended up reporting it to our Insurance company (they tried to deal that if we paid his deductible $500, then it would go on no one's insurance record). Our deductible was $250. So we just reported it.

Turns out "legally" it is our fault even if his car was parked illegally on our property. Since we were the "moving violator".

Our estimate was $618 for a cracked bumper and cracked panel under the bumper. His was less than $500. But at least have rental coverage, so have a rental car for a week while ours is getting fixed. And this accident goes under one "fender bender" forgiveness, so our insurance rates don't go up.

I doubt they will park in our driveway again. But the other day they had his car parked on the street again, (against HOA rules, and it just irritates me). I am not going to quibble about that unless the snowplow can't get through again, then going to start bitching to the HOA.
 
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