It's great that she knew to call the cops no matter what the woman said. Yes, I think she should take NYE off next year and stay in bed. :-)

I agree. Maybe the gal has a 'problem' and has frequent accidents. Maybe that's why it's in hubby's name. She could have lost all she already had, and he don't want to lose any more.
Leslie

Smart move for your dd. I'm glad she had the smarts to keep it legal. Too bad it had to happen at all though!. I'm going to remind my DS today that he is to always do the same thing.

Sounds like this lady might be missing a few points off her license already. Be glad she wasn't moving fast behind your dd, it might have been a whole new ballgame.

I'm sorry about your DD's bad luck. Similar thing happened with my DD a few years ago. Woman hit her car as she was getting gas. Woman jumped out of her car yelling "I didn't do it!" (Oh, really?) Then she took off. Another customer got her tag number and the police were called. They went to her house to arrest her.

Linda

Well of all the bad luck. Whoever heard of being hit in the drive-thru? So glad she's a sharp little cookie and hope she has much better luck the coming year.

Good for her for being smart enough to call the cops. I hope this is all the bad luck she's going to have for a while. Geez Louise!!

Thank goodness she called the police...This happened to me and later we found out the license was fake, he didn't live at the address he had given, even his wife had been looking for him....So I sure leanred a lesson, always call the police....So glad she wasn't hurt.....

Thanks for all the sympathy here.

She's pretty good about handling this sort of thing, thank goodness, and would NEVER neglect to make a report--her father's drummed that into her for years.

She did stop by around lunch and I looked at the car. There's a definite hole punched through her bumper--but it's not big, thank goodness. The officer seemed to think her license plate was bent as well, but that's negligible. Apparently, the other woman was acting so foolish in front of him that he was disgusted with her, too.

Well, I'm just glad things weren't worse.

As to being hit in a drive-thru? I was once at the bank drive through, at the window and the woman behind me rolled into the back of my car and did about $200 worth of damage (and this was about 25 years ago), so it does happen. I think people think they don't need to pay attention, get distracted by kids or whatever, and forget to keep their foot on the brake.

You did a great job raising your daughter to be a responsible adult. Good for her for keeping her wits about her and maintaining her composure in what had to be a stressful situation.

But, I do want to make one comment in response to the several negative comments about the husband having the car in his name only. My husband and I each have a car. My car is registered and owned in my name only. Hubs' car is registered and owned in his name only. There is one insurance policy that covers both vehicles, and both of us are named as insured for both vehicles.

Hubs was out of town on business when I bought my car; and I was with my hospitalized brother when hubs bought his car. It was simply easier for each of us at the time to purchase the vehicles in our own name because the other person wasn't available to sign all the documents. I qualified for my auto loan on my own, as did hubs. We live in a community property state and we don't have any children. Everything I own will go to my husband, and everything my husband owns will go to me (depending on which of us dies first). Both of us have been licensed drivers for over 40 years, and neither of us has had a ticket in at least 30 years. Why should we have to own and register our vehicles in both names? Why should all of you think anything less of us because we own our vehicles this way?

Lindsay--I think you missed the point entirely (at least the point I was making). I've never actually heard of a couple having BOTH names on a car registration. But you have your car registered in YOUR name. I have mine the same way. Most women I know do. In this case, though, the husband's name was on the registration. That means that either she'd borrowed his car for the day (if they each have their own) OR he has everything in HIS NAME ONLY (the sign of a possibly very controlling guy). Either way, she surely didn't want to have to tell him she was in another accident and her behavior indicated this was NOT her first one. But I in no way meant that I thought both names would be on the reg., just that I thought it should be in HER name if it was HER car.

Update on the damage: DD called me a little bit ago after she picked up her boyfriend from work (he's the head mechanic at a repair shop). He took one look at the hole in her bumper and said, "It's from her license plate bolt. See--you can see her license # in the dust on your bumper."!!! No one else had picked up on that. So they're trying to find a lighted parking lot to take good pictures of it (rain is predicted tonight).

I'm so glad she CALLED the cops...and thank goodness her BF caught the damage and you're taking lots of pics! I got rear ended and like a fool I didn't call the police...of course he wasn't at the number he said...blah blah blah...but get this...he shows up at my husbands gym a couple of months later and introduced himself...DH calls me on the cell phone and yeppers that's him (after I described him)...our insurance company went after him big time!

All of our cars are registered in both of our names...as well as insurance...we just list me first on mine and him first on his...so we don't have to license 3 cars in the same month...mine gets licensed in August and his get licensed in April! (our birthday months)

Azzelea,

My comment really wasn't directed so much at you, specifically. This is actually the comment that bothered me the most: "Maybe the gal has a 'problem' and has frequent accidents. Maybe that's why it's in hubby's name. She could have lost all she already had, and he don't want to lose any more."

My husband and I carpool to work every day. He drives, we go to his office and he gets out and then I drive to my office. I pay $100 per month for parking (it's $175 per month to park near my husband's office). At the end of the day I drive to his office to get him, but he usually drives home. However, there are plenty of times when I go to an appointment during the workday, or run errands at lunch, etc., when I am alone in the car, so I am clearly driving my husband's car. If, Heaven forbid, I should get into an accident, I guess Leslie would think less of me because I'd be driving hubs' car, not my own.

And Liz's comment confuses me, too. "All of our cars are registered in both of our names...as well as insurance...we just list me first on mine and him first on his...so we don't have to license 3 cars in the same month...mine gets licensed in August and his get licensed in April! (our birthday months)" Here in California, the month in which you have to pay the registration fee on your car has nothing to do with your birth month. It's an annual renewal based upon the month in which you first registered the vehicle. (And I still don't understand how putting her husband's name first on his vehicle's registration means that the fees are due in his birth month -- unless the state of Georgia ties the two events together...)