Originally Posted By: Cristobal
The accident was the fault of the dog owner.
But man, you must have been going awfully fast for that much damage.
I wasn't speeding, nor was I was texting on a cell phone, or talking on said phone, or drunk, or changing the radio station, or anything that would have been a distraction. I was driving down my residential street, which is a 25 mph zone, at 20 mph.
I took the car out to warm up the oil so that I could change it.
I had the PYB and Purolator One filter sitting in the garage, waiting for me to come back, and make with the change. I was just finishing my 9.5 mile loop, and not once during the drive did I exceed the speed limit. In fact, on the 40 and 45 mph stretches of road, I was locking the cruise control on, with the transmission in 5th gear (manual transmission on the PT Cruiser).
I was going slow in my neighborhood, not only for safety, but to cool the oil a whee bit more.
As for the situation with the neighbor who's dog I hit, we haven't decided what we are going to do as of yet. We had an unpleasant experience with another neighbor who felt it was her job to scream "DOG KILLER" at the top of her lungs just as my fiancee and I returned home from a small grocery run. That really didn't go over well with my fiancee, and she started screaming back at her. That didn't go well at all.
I went over, and defused the situation to the best of my ability, but I am pretty much going to expect to receive more of this abuse over time, there's nothing that I can do about it, and honestly, I really don't care what people like these are thinking.
If we decide not to pursue an insurance claim, I will inform the officer, and ask him to relay the information to the dog's family.
BC.