When it happened I was on a 70 mile fun run around the area here I live with the Eastern Pennsylvania Quattro Club(EPqC) along with about 14 other Audis 3 others of which were in the group in which I was traveling. The plan was to complete the 70 mile run and the go eat lunch at a tavern in West Chester.
Well stuff stopped going as planned about half way through.
I ran into a little bit of a problem as I was going through an intersection where a girl blew a 2 way stop, where she had to stop but I didn't. Well not really knowing the roads I was going pretty slowly but because there was a berm on the side of the road from where she was coming I didn't see her in time to stop completely. I plowed into the side of her car going 20-30mph(if anyone thinks I was speeding I have many witnesses saying I was only going at this speed along with the damage of the accident). Enough to push her down the road a bit but not to seriously injure anyone. The driver of the other car, a Saturn, was taken to the hospital suffering from I believe shock and maybe a broken nose. The passengers of the other car were fine although a little more than pissed that they were both involved in an accident and that the accident involved a nice Audi. I'm fine as well as my girlfriend who was the passenger/navigator for the event, though she was pretty shaken up as she's been through a lot of accidents in the past year.
A silver A4 was leading the group, followed by a silver S4, then me and then a black S4. The two silver cars stopped about a quarter of a mile after the accident and then came back around to check how we were doing. The guy in the black S4, Alex, had time to stop pretty nicely behind us and just watched the whole thing unfold. He pulled off to the side and helped calm my girlfriend down as well as took pictures of the incident with my camera. So yes I actually have pictures of this one. I was pretty pissed that this happened to my car as well as everyone else there, I'm sure it's pretty sad to see the same type of car you're driving all messed up in a ditch especially because of a stupid accident. I think they were all a little pissed as well especially Alex as if we were about one second quicker or slower it could have been any one of them that hit the other car. Just bad luck that it was me.
Anyways the accident was totally her fault and she'll be issued a traffic citation. I have a pretty damn stong case with both the guy behind me seeing the accident and giving a police report as well as the guy on the opposite side of the intersection. This along with the passengers of the other car which blame the driver.
Hopefully this will all be worked out on Tuesday when the cop who reported the accident gets back from vacation. I also hope this whole process goes smoothly. Any tips in the mean time?
And now for the pictures.
The Intersection (this is from the direction that I was coming, my view was blocked by the berm on the right hand side so I didn't see that she didn't stop until the last second before I hit her.)
Another shot of the intersection
My Car
Her car
My car again
Skid mark (she was coming from the left in this picture and I coming up from the direction straight down the road)
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that is so sad, your car was beautiful. Hope you are feeling better, best of luck.
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