My turn for the hit & run
 

2016 has been pretty darn $#!++y from the get-go and this just adds to it...

Went to the gym this morning and afterwards decided to grab a cup of coffee before heading in. For the 2.5 minutes I was inside making my order a PoS conversion van driver missed the handicap spot they appear to have been pulling into and hit the rear passenger side of my car. From there they decided it was better to drive off so they tucked tail and ran...

When I was getting in my car some witnesses waved me down and told me what happened. Got out, and sure enough there was the damage. Of course no one was able to get the plates, and to add insult to injury the camera inside only captured the driver's side of my car...

Now to build on all of this, I bought a 2009 Ranger as my daily driver back at the end of December so the BRZ wouldn't have to endure the daily grind. Last week the Ranger's clutch master & slave cylinder's failed so the truck is currently getting repaired which has me driving the BRZ... :mad0259:

So, to all those who have had to endure this I now know your pain first hand... And to the person who hit my car and decided it was worth running? You can do this: :suicide: and make the world a much better place.

I'll throw pictures up in a moment so we can laugh at the "totaled" comments...

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That sucks man. Sorry to hear about your year so far!

Yeah, it has been a compounding year of crap! I usually park away from the front of buildings to try and help avoid stupid stuff like this or door dings. #EPICFAIL on this instance!

Dam that sucks. At least all is fixable. Just takes time and money, something we don't like to give up.

Yup, it's totalled. And because I have a username, I'm qualified to make that assessment. :cheers:

(Somebody had to do it :thumbup: )

That sucks man...I feel ya. Got my BRZ broken into 3 months into owning it. Not only did it mess up my windows, the guy managed to eff up the paint...causing the whole door/rear fender to be painted.

It sucks realizing that all this is going to cost money down the line on selling it too. But that is the daily drama we car enthusiasts have to live with. Other people don't have time/money to respect other people's property.

Yep, talked with my insurance and I'll be out my deductible... Awesome...

I plan on trying to monitor the traffic for 30 minutes tomorrow morning to try and identify the other vehicle. It was 630 in the morning when it occurred, so my bet is it was someone going to get coffee on their way to work. If it was a red conversion van it should easily stand out since those aren't common anymore. Plus if it has a handicap tag that will place them trying to park in the spot that was next to my car. Since I have a witness I can hopefully correlate their story to the damage on the other vehicle and turn that over to the police.

It may not get me anywhere, but I'm going to try dammit!

Thats sucks, insurance should definitely be able to take care of this if you are full insuranced.

This is one of the reasons why i always try to park as further as possible... too many assholes on the run.

Hang in there man, things get better eventually :)

I hope you nail this douche, it's totally unfair and irresponsible to run off like that. But from the pics it's not that bad, I see no mechanical damage to the shocks it's just the rear fender and bumper cover stuff to me.

That does suck for you, but I am glad you're going to pursue this further and I'm interested to see how this ends up. Good luck ID'ing the perp!

Sorry for the trouble man. That's the worst.

Every time that I park near ANYONE or at the front of the store I assume this will happen.

Trust no one!!!

If I can ID them I'll certainly update be updating the thread! I should be able to dedicate Tuesday and Thursday mornings to my hunt. It would be nice to get justice for once.

If they park at the same place, make sure to take pictures of the plate and where the van would have hit your car.

You taught me never to park anywhere near the handicapped spaces.
They are known to be disabled so that should be fair warning.
I am sure you will not make that mistake again.

What is that supposed to mean?
There are good and bad drivers of all kinds and I doubt that being disabled automatically makes you bad.

I don't think that being disabled makes you a bad driver.

However, 90% of the time I see senior citizens being the ones with the handicap permits and even though there's some great senior drivers, there's also the ones who aren't so good anymore just due to age.

It's just a correlation in this case.

The whole "seniors should be forced to retake licensing after a age" thing has supporters for a reason.

I think that's what he meant. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt because it doesn't look like his English is too great.

Yeah some asshole hit my old 97 Type-R at a Subway before. I was in there for 3 minutes at most. Pissed me off. At least be a fucking man about it and leave a note or wait.

My parents have handicap tags. I'm surprised they aren't in more accidents. Not that all are like that but my parents scare me when I ride with them lol

I think his point was to say that we should be more cautious around handicapped drivers because they have some type of impairment, not necessarily that handicapped = disabled = bad drivers.

Meh, English, words, stuffs.

I have invested in a dashcam just for this reason. I back into all my parking spots so the camera can see them. It sits on standby and activates when it detects motion the battery will last at least 4 hours when not powered by the car. Granted this isn't fool proof either but if it doesn't capture the plates it will for sure at least see the car and identifying things about it and maybe even the person.

Hmmmmmm
I guess the moral of the story is to not park or drive where there are 16 to 30 or 71 to dead year olds.




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Not making it better there dude!
If people were saying a certain race was worse at driving everybody here would be screaming.
If people were saying that anybody under the age of 20 were bad drivers half the people here would be screaming.
Being disabled in some way does not automatically mean you have an "impairment".
Many may actually be better drivers since they are more cautious.

Anyone see Sam Schmidt (paraplegic) driving a Corvette on the street course at Long Beach last year? He literally drove with his head - sensors monitored for left/right head motion and a sip/spit straw was used for accel/braking. He did 80 mph!

http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story...to-race-041915

Amazing what can be done with today's tech!

Another correlation the older you get the less likely you are to break rules?

would you mind sharing which dashcam your using? thanks!!

I'm currently using the Rexing V1 and routed a long usb cable hidden through he headliner over to the glovebox along with wire to my radar detector, it goes to a usb and cigarette light adapter which is plugged into a Lukas LP530 UPS, good for 6-8 hours of continous video and that's if I accidentally leave the radar detector on.

Bear in mind this puts a lot of wear on the SD card doing the continuous recording as well as heat buildup on the dashcam in a hot car in the summer. I wouldn't recommend doing it all the time with the UPS in the summer, fact it's only logical to use if you know for a fact the car will be unattended out of sight range for more than 1-2 hours, in the winter and spring I keep it running all the time, in the summer I disconnect the ups and run its internal battery and car power. Also I have 3 sd cards in the car one in the dash cam and 2 in the glove box in case one needs to be switched out and can be sent in for sandisk warranty replacement if something happens.

i feel your pain. my mr2 was a victim of a hit and run on the front passenger side fender like 7 years back. i wish that mofo nothing but horrible things!

Justice CAN happen!

I noticed that a Rav4 was parked mighty close to my RSX when I was walking to work one day(office was 3 blocks away), but thought nothing of it and I was running late anyways. During my lunch break, I decided to check it out and saw that my hood was caved in from the Rav4's spare tire on the trunk and the offending car was gone. I called my insurance and filed a claim. Two days later, I find the Rav4, see some scrapes on the bottom of the tire cover, park behind it, and see that the damage matches. Called up the insurance company with the car's info, send pics, and after the car is fixed, I find that I don't have to pay the deductible.

Good luck OP!

All, thanks for the comments... A quick update is that we had a light dusting of snow here in Tennessee this morning so I didn't head out as early as I normally would. This isn't because I'm a ***** southerner either, but rather I have had so much crap go wrong lately I figured I'd not leave my hilly neighborhood in my now damaged BRZ on slick roads with summer tires! :P

I'm hoping to give a shot at finding the offender on Thursday now. Its probably a LONG shot but I'm hopeful!

i totally feel your pain. I almost cried when it happened to me

This morning I have identified a possible culprit after monitoring traffic on the road near where my hit & run occurred. Near the exact time everything happened Monday a dark maroon Dodge conversion van drove past me this morning heading in the direction the hit & run driver took off in. I was not able to ID a handicap tag from where I was, and the license plate was not a disabled tag... Then again, that doesn't really matter because the person may just be such a piece of shit that they'd park in a handicap space just to save a few steps.

Either way, I'm going to look for them tomorrow morning and then attempt to find where they're going. If I can get a look at their vehicle and find marks from where I was hit I plan on getting pictures and sending them to the gentleman that saw the event unfold to see if he can confirm the van. If so then I'll be calling the police to see if my investigating will payoff or if they blow me off like any other time I've dealt with the police. Again, my best witness told me it was a conversion van that hit me and that the van was red so fingers are crossed.

Thanks!

Ooh this is getting good! Best of luck!

Yeah it looks like I forgot to add a small tidbit of info in this as well... The impact zone on my car had no paint marks which seemed a bit odd to me. The van I saw this morning was sporting a chrome front bumper which adds to the possibility that "its the one" as they say!

This is the one Im using its on sale as well currently. Takes really good video was actually surprised.
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If it was the chrome bumper it could suck for you since there is no paint transfer to your car and they could just wipe the paint off their bumper. The bright spot however could be that they are just to dumb to wipe the paint off if they are still driving around in a conversion van in this day and age.