Early this year, on January 13th, I rear ended someone because as you can see, it was very snowy and cold that day.
I was on my way to work and was almost at the school when I couldn't stop the car. I went over a black ice patch on the road and hit the person in front of me.
The road had not been plough yet and the snow was very slushy. Even though I was very careful, I couldn't avoid not hitting the car in front me.
I was in shock when it happened. It was awful, because I could see that the car was going to hit, but I couldn't do anything to stop. I felt powerless.
The good thing is that no one got hurt, only my car :(
The other person's car was fine too.
But my insurance assessed the car as being a total loss and for seven months I couldn't afford to have another car.
Also, when the police arrived at the scene, I got a ticket for $325 and would lose 6 points because I was charged with "Careless Driving".
Me? A careless driver? Are you kidding me?
That was ridiculous.
I decided to fight it and went to court and today was the day scheduled for my trial.
Well, when I first started researching how to fight this, I discovered that cops will give you this extremely high fine for anything, because when they retire, they open up offices that fight traffic tickets. So they help each other.
Ex-cops will fight a traffic ticket for you, but you have to pay them $500!!! And they don't guarantee anything !!!!
I decided to just fight it myself and it was the best thing I did.
Because the other motorist was not there to act as a witness, the judge said:
MISS, YOU ARE FREE TO GO!!
Those were very sweet words. My insurance company did go up only because there is a claim of an accident, but now that there are no charges against me. It is all good.
Cheerios,
Paula
