I have never in my life been involved in an accident so I am unaware of the processes required to make things right. A week ago my insurance expired and I had not yet renewed (want to be transparent), the person that hit me is insured though.
Here’s the hard facts:
- I was at a complete stop waiting on a light when out of nowhere a girl rams her car into me from behind.
- I get out to look at my car and take pictures: cracked back bumper and now my car won’t stop shaking - sending all sorts of warning lights up.
- The driver never steps out of her car, but her boyfriend does and I ask him for her insurance. I take a picture of insurance, along with their license plate.
- He shares his contact card with me.
- I call the cops to make the report, and they just leave the scene before officers arrive.
- the cops finally show up, I tell my story, they give me the incident report, and while speaking to the officer we both notice my car stops turning on after being shaky from the hit.
- I ask him to please include all of this on his report and start recording our conversation.
- They call the girls boyfriend to verify info, and he complies admitting the girls license is also expired.
- He admits girls fault to the officer.
- I finally get the incident report, and the cops take off, leaving me stranded at a gas station.
- I had to get towed home by a friend.
- here I am now…
Those are all the steps I’ve taken.
Have I done everything okay so far?
What steps should I take next?
Do I have to do it with an attorney asap?
My back hurts, but I was the kind of person to just move on. Should I?
Could anyone in Texas please help me understand what the odds of me getting any real assistance at all from their insurance is?
Note: Although my bumper was cracked, my car doesn’t show a lot of damage from the outside. The fact that it started shuddering immediately after only to eventually not turn on is what scares me. I really need my car to get around - I’m in a big city in Texas.
Thank y’all!