medinaserpa
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Oregon
This is going to be long so bare with me. On september 1st 2005 my parents were in a motorcycle vs car accident. They were the motorcycle. They were driving home when a 19 year old kid made a u turn four feet in front of there motorcycle. My father was thrown about 20 feet and broke everything from the waste down and was in the trama unit of the hospital for 2 weeks, and my mother was thrown about 40 feet and died four days later from severe closed head injuries. In the police reports this kid changed his story several times and even tried to pin it on my father but the police reports showed that my father was 5-10 miles under the speed limit and had his headlight on. He even tried to brake. Not only was the kid NOT charged criminally but he wasn't even given a traffic ticket!!!! I just don't understand. How he could have not gotten anything. He made a U turn with out yeilding to on comming traffic, and because of that my mother died! The car he was driving was in his own name but the insurance was in his mothers. Doesn't that make the mother lialble? I always thought that you insure the car not the driver. And she has insured the car. This kid was not the smarted brick in the wall, during the deposition he didn't even know his insurance company. But what gets me the most. His address on his drivers liscence stated that he lived with his parents and that is what he even told the officers at the scene. But during the deposition he stated that he lived by himself and at a different address than what he originally stated. To me it really seems like the parents are trying to protect themselves, and that somebody is lyeing. What I don't understand is why my father is only getting the policy limits for a compenstaion for the loss of his wife, and why no one feels the need to charge this kid with anything. Maybe someone can explain it to me a little better, because this is so frustrating.
This is going to be long so bare with me. On september 1st 2005 my parents were in a motorcycle vs car accident. They were the motorcycle. They were driving home when a 19 year old kid made a u turn four feet in front of there motorcycle. My father was thrown about 20 feet and broke everything from the waste down and was in the trama unit of the hospital for 2 weeks, and my mother was thrown about 40 feet and died four days later from severe closed head injuries. In the police reports this kid changed his story several times and even tried to pin it on my father but the police reports showed that my father was 5-10 miles under the speed limit and had his headlight on. He even tried to brake. Not only was the kid NOT charged criminally but he wasn't even given a traffic ticket!!!! I just don't understand. How he could have not gotten anything. He made a U turn with out yeilding to on comming traffic, and because of that my mother died! The car he was driving was in his own name but the insurance was in his mothers. Doesn't that make the mother lialble? I always thought that you insure the car not the driver. And she has insured the car. This kid was not the smarted brick in the wall, during the deposition he didn't even know his insurance company. But what gets me the most. His address on his drivers liscence stated that he lived with his parents and that is what he even told the officers at the scene. But during the deposition he stated that he lived by himself and at a different address than what he originally stated. To me it really seems like the parents are trying to protect themselves, and that somebody is lyeing. What I don't understand is why my father is only getting the policy limits for a compenstaion for the loss of his wife, and why no one feels the need to charge this kid with anything. Maybe someone can explain it to me a little better, because this is so frustrating.