This is what happens when an Acura MDX (big ole SUV) hits an Acura Integra (lil ole me). Passers by yelled many lovely things at the guy who hit me as we held up rush hour traffic on the Harlem River Drive. I just hoped we had made the traffic report on 1010WINS.
Thankfully it was stop and go traffic and we were barely moving. Otherwise, he might have plowed right over me.
It took almost an hour to get everything straightened out. Initially the cop pulled up, told us to get off at the next exit, and then disappeared. After standing on a street somewhere for about 15 minutes, I had to call 911 again. The dispatcher was REALLY pissed that I was calling again, and insisted that the officer had already responded. I responded that I would not still be standing there waiting for an officer if that were the case. Another cop pulled off the highway, turned right in front of us (we were both waving to him) pulled a u-turn and drove away. FINALLY a cop arrived, and it turned out to be the cop who had initially disappeared. He had been escorting a car up to the George Washington Bridge and couldn't stop. He told us that he called the precinct to send backup. I would guess that backup was the cop who drove straight by us, because he eventually came back, turned on his siren to try to get me to move, realized that cop #1 was taking our information, turned his siren off and drove away.
But the officer and the guy who hit me were both nice. No one was hurt, and he was insured, so it could certainly be worse. Although my car might disagree on that point.
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