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Originally Posted by shadrach74
When is was in my early 20s I owned a Mercedes E Class. It was pretty nice car for a kid at that age. I was coming down an alley (probably a bit over the limit) when a realtor who had been showing a house backed out of a blind parking lot right in front of me. My reaction was to swerve to the right to miss him and I did so successfully...but ended up in gravel and slid into the back of a beat up van that was randomly parked to the side of the alley.
The policeman on the scene placed fault with me, claiming that my speed had caused the accident. It was pay day for the van people, the realtor drove away without so much as a warning and the cop told me that if I had hit the realtors car, that he would have been forced to fault the realtor.
I know this is not the exact same scenario. My point is that young men in cars that are perceived to be flashy don't engender good favor or much good will from the community in most cases. I was a known quantity in my community and I certainly was not liked for for having fancy cars and dating attractive young ladies. Truth is most people probably thought I needed to be taken down a notch (and maybe I did, but in a constructive way). I'm sure that policeman thought he did...
I suspect Jake is finding it difficult to find "credible" witnesses because not many people are identifing him as someone who deserves their testimony. He's that "guy with the Porsche" on campus that snaked Redneck Bronco's girl. I have also been "that guy" and I can say that people are petty. Jealousy and Schadenfreude can prevent the truth from surfacing. I'm betting that someone with a conscience saw the accident. I hope they surface.
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The witness issue is simply because everyone knows someone, my friends that claim I am innocent are just as useful as the kids helping the other party, the issue lies that it isn't so and so saw this car hit that one, everyone knows everyone as we all go to school together so only a teacher would count as a witness.