Depending on the particulars of who’s at fault in the messed up police report, the daughter could get away with it even without all the stupid sovcit bullshit. As comedian Mike Birbiglia points out, police reports are like homework for cops, and those guys are often lazy and hate homework. After he got hit by a drunk driver the police report had a bunch of errors basically saying he hit his own car and the department refused to correct it.
Actually a pretty funny and engaging story if you’ve got 15 mins
So… She’s trying to make things worse for her daughter.
(she’s ok)
And how’s the driver of the jeep holding up? To shreds you say…
Pretty easy, I don’t know what could go wrong, their reasoning is airtight… in that any ability to reason they had has suffocated and is fucking dead.
It’s a slam dunk case. Judges are famous for being easily swayed by frivolous semantic arguments from non-lawyers. It’s kind of like that old sci-fi trope of AIs being defeated when the hero states a logical paradox.
That truck looks like it’s a long way from “totaled”.
Totaled just means repairs will cost as much as the car is worth. If the frame is bent, that would probably do it.
it still looks drivable, how can something that runs, stops, and doesn’t leak fluids too badly be totaled? Nobody should care how a truck looks, replace the front bumper with some plastic tubs zip-tied on and replace the radiator if it leaks. the only real issue I could see is if the steering is messed up.
Cars these days are essentially one-time use when it comes to collisions. They’re exceptionally good at protecting the occupants, but can only be kind of guaranteed to do so once. Like a helmet!
Newer cars that have unibodies can look relatively fine and be all smashed like a soda can on the inside. The metal crumples to redirect the force away and protect the delicate meatbag in safe zones. Your knees and elbows and head might whip around like a mofo. Be glad the airbag didn’t activate, because it might break your nose. The unibody CAN save your meat by itself. Source: personal walk away from a approx. 50 mph front and rear impact and the plastic and glass didn’t look that bad. No airbags, no problem. Thanks, unibody design!
At this point, many companies consider any car with a deployed air bag totaled. There’s a lot of stuff that crumples and isn’t obvious.
