December 12, 2008

  • As I'm typing this it is 4:40AM. You know where I'm suppose to be? At work. Why am I not at work? Well it's because I was sent home an hour ago from my shift, because while I was driving my company vehicle, I hit another company vehicle. BULLCRAP! It has not even been a year since my last incident that suspended my driving status, and THIS happens?! Although I'm tentatively not allowed to drive for the time being until I'm told that it'll be okay again (so back to swing shifts for me), I'm being reassured by management that it'll be okay and I'm not at fault. Honestly though, I don't know if I'm blameless. I think it was my fault, but at the same time, I could actually have been the victim here.

    Without giving away too much information that I'm not willing to post here, the way it happened was this... I was coming back from my break to take over for another person. To go back and forth from the office, we have to go through a security barricade. I went through that barricade and parked to the right of it, waiting for the other person to go through so I can put up the barricade again. In the middle of that happening, another vehicle from another department decides to try and go through the security barricade as well. So I'm towards the right of the barricade, the person I was taking over for was at the left of it, and that other driver was in the middle of it. All access to move is blocked at that point. Somebody needed to move, so I told that other driver to stay where they are, so that I can back-up my vehicle closer to the person I was taking over for, which will allow that other driver to go past me, and the person I was taking over for can go through the barricade. When I was backing up my vehicle, I glanced at the my side mirror and noticed that the other driver's vehicle was much closer than I expected it to be, as if it moved forward than where I told him to stay. I moved my steering wheel to avoid hitting the other driver, but instead I end up hitting the vehicle of the person I was taking over for. No one was hurt, because it was just a small fender bender, but I did still hit the other vehicle. While I was looking at the minor damage, that other driver takes off from the scene, even though he was technically involved with the accident. Me and the person I was taking over for wrote our statements of the incident, while that other driver is no where in sight. I swear, if that other driver wasn't there in the first place, I wouldn't be typing this right now...

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