Harassment - True Story

At around 9:00 or 10:00 one night, a man and a woman were stopped at a stoplight. They were in different lanes, although the woman apparently needs to get into the mans lane in order to get wherever she is headed to. She may plan to cut in front of the man when the light turns green, even though there is literally no one else around.

The light turns, and the man takes off, speeding up to the speed limit, but no faster. The woman decides he must be just acting like an asshole. Angrily, she starts speeding, and cuts him off right in front of a roundabout without using her blinker. She had cut it very close, for she nearly ran into the concrete sidewalk that separated the roundabout's lane and another lane.

She goes through the roundabout normally. Once she is out of the roundabout, she slams on her brakes, and keeps the brake depressed. Her brake lights stay on even though she has come to a complete stop. She is near a bank, but the entrance is far ahead. There is no reason to have come to complete stop where she is.

The man sees her brake lights, and starts to slow down. Too late, he realizes that she has actually stopped, and slams on his breaks. His skids into the back of the car the woman is driving, which is not even hers.

His hood crumples. The metal framing holding the radiator is bent, shoving the radiator into his engine. Fluid sprays everywhere; fiberglass and plastic flies more than 5 feet away. His front bumper falls off completely.

Before he slams back into his seat after the impact, the woman is out of her car, screaming at him. She calls the cops.

The man is in shock. When the cops come, they talk to him first. They believe he was simply following to closely behind. After talking to the woman, the come back to the man more sympathetically. She had said that she was slowing down for a person waiting to come out of the banks parking lot, 21 sidewalk squares ahead. Each square is about 3 feet, so the entrance/exit is roughly 63 feet ahead of the crash, perhaps more.

The story is unlikely, as she would have had the right of way if there had even been a person in the parking lot, and she was too far from the lot as it was too have started "slowing down".

She gets a ticket for negligent driving. He gets a ticket for tailgating her. He plans to fight his ticket. He was not driving too close to her. He just didn't realize she had stopped when he saw her brake lights.

I trust that the man, my boyfriend, is telling the truth.

That woman purposefully stopped in front of him, with her sisters (I believe) car. She intentionally caused damage to his car. Any woman who would do this, I would think badly of. I think even worse since she did this with someone's car that was entrusted to her. She has already screwed herself over with her story; I hope that her family understands what really happened and won't trust her with their car again.

You may think I have told a skewed story. I still want to know: Whose fault do you believe it was?