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Originally Posted by 69BirdX
read them all hilarious. But do i want to ask about this?
094: I have an accident report on file with njmvc that states 1 person(me) involved but 2 killed.
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lets go back to Christmas night 2005... it was snowing heavy, and i mean heavy. 6+ inches on the ground within a short time, well, i had an 87 fullsize bronco. i took it downtown in my town to mess around in the parking lots, trying to do donuts... no dice, the bronco gripped too well, so i headed home. on the road, you could only really see under where the street lights were, and the snow falling in the pools of light, kinda blocked ur vision further ahead. Roads were unplowed but i was doing fine, and about 30mph. As i entered one "pool" of light i see something on the other side, 2 sets of car headlights stopped on the left side facing me, i figured that they had gotten stuck. Then i see It was because a pine tree that had fallen across the road, the main trunk about 2 feet thick and branches sticking up at least 4feet high. The first stopped car had hit it, hood was crumpled back, horn was going off constant. Well, back to me, by the time i saw the tree there was no slowing down, so i said f it, and i punched it and held on. i hit it, turning the whole trunk and also high centering my bronco on the tree. i shut it off and climbed out, through pine branches. the other people who had been stopped said they tried to warn me but there was no visibility. they asked in i was fine bout if my truck was ok, i checked it out and all that happened was i broke a fog light lens, lol. Well, now the cops had already been called for the other car so we waited. they brough a back hoe to help lift my truck up and dispose of the tee. The cops asked about damage, and if it was over 500 bucks, i said no. the cop told me then it was only an incident report not an accident and would not be filed with the nj dmv.
fast forward a lil over a year, i have my gf's dad at the time run my license to check my record just for the hell of it, since he was a cop. he told me there were 2 accidents on my record. so i went to the dmv to get copies.
one turned out to be the christmas bronco "incident" and the other when i backed into a car illegally parked behind my driveway. both had way under 500 worth of damage and should not have been reported, but during an administration changeover and cleanup, someone found the reports and accidentally submitted them to the dmv....
now the part about the 2 killed, well the report states, 1 vehicle involved and explains what happened and how i was the driver with no passengers. but in the block on the police report where it asks "# killed", they entered "2"...i was like WTF! my gf joked maybe there were 2 squirels in the tree. haha. And they even put down the wrong VIN number, it was kinda close. i did check with my insurance company if i was being charged for any accidents and my agent at the time, a friends mom, said no and not to worry about it. when i told her the 2 "killed" part she then agreed i should get the reports removed. So i go back to my police department and raise hell, dmv said the reports could be removed with a letter from the cheif. So i get that without much problem since they admitted their mistake.
BTW i never got back to dmv with that letter, so to this day that report is still on file. maybe ill do it in Sept when i visit my local PD again. and yes that was a very long story for a simple answer.... lol