So you were honest with the police and the situation was resolved to everyone's satisfaction?
Unpossible! Cops are bad and only want to throw innocent people in jail!
(Or so I've heard...)
Glad my "bad" legal advice worked for you.
Question regarding DSM police
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So you were honest with the police and the situation was resolved to everyone's satisfaction?
Unpossible! Cops are bad and only want to throw innocent people in jail!
(Or so I've heard...)
Glad my "bad" legal advice worked for you.
asking what they wanted and talking to them are different things.
generally speaking .... when an officer is asking you questions ... be mindful of what you say ... if anything.
Yeah, lawyers don't have a ve$ted intere$t in advising that you should always have a lawyer speaking for you.
Some people are super hardcore about asserting their rights no matter the situation. This video cracks me up. This guy has huge juevos, for pulling this off. I could never do that.
[video=youtube;gwYBshAScmE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwYBshAScmE[/video]
[video=youtube;gwYBshAScmE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwYBshAScmE[/video]
guy gets nervous... understandably.
But I think its a great video .... knowledge is power, exercising your rights is perfectly okay.
Didn't he get a ticket? Maybe he was going to get one anyway, but all I saw there was him asking for the officer to give him the maximum punishment allowed.
Do NOT give her your insurance information! There's zero reason to do so! She rear-ended you! Regardless of the circumstances she's liable for that (Failure to Maintain Control/Safe Stopping Distance). You should not share your insurance info as there's no reason that she needs it.
What a jackwagon; and then some people wonder why police treat them like crap. The dude was a complete *** and took what could have been a simple traffic stop and possibly just a warning into a long ordeal for both the officer and himself. Sure you need to protect your rights. A police officer needs to protect him/herself at every stop as well.
I'm no apologist. I recognize that there are some bad cops out there. I also recognize that there are a lot of good cops out there who are just trying to do the right thing. If you are like this guy you probably have nothing but bad experiences with cops because you create bad experiences.
Yup. Ended up going to court and paying the full price if you read the description in the video.
I've never personally had a bad experience with a cop, just heard a ton of stories out there about them.
Technically, I gave my policy number and agent number to the cop, not the other driver.
I suppose that the cop knew this would be difficult when he stood there waiting for the guy to set up the recording.
The best way to get the DSM PD to show up quickly? Have one of them in unmarked car run into you. There was a marked car there in under 90 seconds. lol
admitting guilt/paying the fine, doesn't mean you allow more to happen than is required. The officer was held in check with all he needed to do in issuing a ticket. The 'perp' made sure nothing past the minimum took place and kept his privacy intact.
-keep
Makes sense. You probably should have asked "why" he needed it, unless it was only to prove that your insurance is valid. Giving another driver your insurance information in a circumstance such as this gives them the opportunity to twist the story in their favor and claim that you were responsible. I have an old boss who had a similar situation like yours and the other driver claimed that he reversed his car and caused the damage to the front of the other person's car. In an accident where it is "shared" responsibility you should exchange insurance information, but one such as yours is a bit different.
So, you told the officer that you swerved to avoid an accident . . . which indicates you may have been driving too fast for conditions and may have caused the vehicle behind you to hit you . . . you admitted that you knew there was an incident and you kept going . . . which may indicate that you knowingly left the scene of an accident . . . and you provided insurance information with the other driver . . . which may indicate what sort of coverage you have and whether she should go after you.
I don't think we have heard the end of this story. And I don't think you should have admitted anything to the officer or the other driver.
