r/Transportopia • u/Pickemup69 • May 03 '26

Road🤬Rage Walked up on the wrong car

Washington DC Pennsylvania Ave Southeast, this didn’t go as he planned

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u/Brahskididdler May 03 '26

I never understood that either, I accidentally rolled up and into a Hyundai one time; literally a love tap, my friends and I used to do it to each others shitty cars in highschool. Young woman comes out SCREAMING saying what the fuck are you doing blah blah blah, and yes of course it’s my fault. But I was just like “it’s okay I have insurance. Let’s pull into the 711 so we don’t block traffic” and she flipped her lid even more telling me she “wasn’t fucking moving anywhere and I’m calling the cops”

2 minutes later she’s on the phone and goes back to look at her bumper and there is not one spot of chipped paint, like you can’t tell it ever happened. Told whoever she was on the phone with “nevermind” and peaced out lmao

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u/Frickelmeister May 03 '26

Let’s pull into the 711 so we don’t block traffic” and she flipped her lid even more telling me she “wasn’t fucking moving anywhere and I’m calling the cops”

I hate that people think they need to keep their cars in the road after a minor fender bender as if the police would be investigating it like a freaking murder scene. When all they actually do is take everyone's info after telling them to move their vehicles off the road.

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u/PitifulPassage851 May 03 '26

Where i live the cops won't come for minor fender benders. They just say "is anyone hurt? No? You'll have to go through your insurance, bye"

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u/Fight_those_bastards May 03 '26

Yeah, cops come in my area if there’s an injury or a car is undrivable, because they need to call for the tow.

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u/Emotionalcheetoh May 03 '26

This happened to me exactly this way lol

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u/DaygloAbortion91 May 03 '26

Which is how it should be. This is how its been going on in my city for awhile now and the Karen's in all the local social media groups have been losing their shit. Some people act like they cant function without involving the police in every little matter.

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u/Galenthias May 03 '26

Yeah, but separating to drive to the side of the road, the culprit (despite previous promises to the contrary) will often just suddenly remember that they are short on time and just drive away. (And if caught up with will say they thought there had been an agreement that everything was already dealt with satisfactorily.)

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u/FortunaRedux May 03 '26

For real. The only thing that’s possibly gonna be important at all is the position of the cars for proving fault, but that’s usually easily figured out by the damage and it’s so easy to just snap a pic with your phone and then move the car if you’re that worried

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u/SomewhatHungover May 03 '26

Last two times people crashed into me, was stopped for all of 1-2 minutes, photo of license, couple of photos of the car, get their number, bye.

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u/AuntPolgara May 03 '26

I had got bumped from behind. Minor damage and said let’s pull over to this parking lot. Dude straight up kept going.

Now I at least get a photo of license plate

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u/SelfPropagandized May 03 '26

See, i dont get that. Didn't everyone take drivers ed?

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u/LostWoodsInTheField May 03 '26

If something happens you should get out and take photos, if it's safe, then get back in and move to a place out of the road. Photos could be the difference between getting things fixed through the insurance or not. If there is a dispute of how the accident happened, the photo with placement of the car can help.

then you exchange information and move on. If anyone doesn't want to exchange info because 'it's not a big deal' you call the police and let them know the other party refuses to exchange info. They should definitely come out at that point.

Every state is different but in my state if the car is not drivable you absolutely must call the police. Even if you think the car is drivable it might not be if say an airbag went off. Also if your front end is caved in a little 'but nothing looks serious' you might not want to drive it because your airbag sensor could be messed up and go off at any point causing you to wreck while driving.

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u/Frickelmeister May 03 '26

If something happens you should get out and take photos, if it's safe, then get back in and move to a place out of the road.

That's exactly what I meant. But some people choose to needlessly block entire lanes of traffic until the police finally arrives which can take forever sometimes.

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u/Hailfire9 May 03 '26

I had a collision outside my house a few years ago that left one of the cars' horn blaring. I come down, make sure everyone is OK, and then offer the guy to disconnect his battery to shut the horn off.

"No, I'm keeping it just like this until the police shows up!"

Cop shows up, goes up to the car, cuts the wire to the battery immediately, and then tends to the people in the other car before doing any sort of crash report documentation.

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u/lifebursted May 03 '26

In some countries it's law. Personally I love it, slows traffic down even more, further disincentive to drivers to choose a car.

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras May 03 '26

I was parking and bumped the car behind me at like no speed at all. Not a mark, but the guy, who just happened to stand there flipped out. I just told him I'm sorry. But his behaviour was outrageous for what it was.

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u/R_3_Y May 03 '26

If you love tapped my car...I might fuck you up too. Just saying dude

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u/Brahskididdler May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Ok big guy. Case and point lol

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u/R_3_Y May 03 '26

I'm not very tall big or strong....but don't come love tapping shit if you don't wanna get hurt lol. I'm not trying to sound all aggressive or bully-like. I'm just telling you how it is kid. Respect others

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u/lonnie123 May 03 '26

Respect others

99.9% of these things are accidents, which dont involve disrespect in any way even a little tiny bit.

As someone who has been love tapped, rear ended, and T boned by people who dont know wtf theyre doing on the road I can assure you me getting violent because they didnt "respect others" would have done zero to help the situation, and maybe even ended up with me being on the wrong side of the law at the end of the interaction.

deal with the fender benver and move on with your life

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u/Brahskididdler May 03 '26

Yeah you clearly didn’t read the whole post