Thread: Rear ended by a cop

So I was on my way home yesterday from the grocery store in traffic on the freeway, listening to some tunes and enjoying my day .... dead stop in traffic then a big thud as I was hit in the rear end by someone in a big ford explorer. I signaled to change lanes through traffic to get to the side by an off-ramp when the car that hit me turned on his sirens to get to the same area. I was a bit surprised it was an unmarked cop car. Not much damage to my car after inspecting it thought it would be more. Called USAA to start a claim since I have a nice imprint from his liscence plate on my bumper now that I'd rather not have there and the insurance agent told me it's not uncommon for people to get rear ended by cops as a matter of fact he said it was pretty common.

I could tell the cop was a bit disappointed by me being squared away and having all of my papers in the car, Hawaii reg, current safety inspection and my USAA insurance card as well as my driver's liscence.

Anyone else been in an accident with a cop where they (the cop) were at fault? Just curious...

I don't think it's possible to be rear-ended by a cop. Why did you back up into him? And how many times were you tasered while getting your papers? Ba-Dum-tscchhh! I'm sorry, couldn't help myself.

Not myself here. But a buddy from work was once sent a letter detailing how he had to show up at a police station in another city because he had been seen (by another police officer) speeding through town. The police officer who was off duty had followed and matched the speed of his car to ascertain just how fast he was going.
Unfortunately for the police officer who decided to claim he was sure of the license plate number my friend was at work at the time about 120 kilometres away (119,6 really) with his car parked in the facility parking lot.
Anyhow, he was called in for a second meeting with the chief? (not sure what it is called) for an apology after they had done some "undercover surveillance" in the days beforehand (2 guys in their officer uniforms sitting in a private looking car at 23:00 pm in our parking lot ) to check that he actually work those hours.

Everything would have been fine if the initial officer hadn't been so adamant about how he was right.

At least he had his truck on! Usually they just do body cavity searches with their hands! Sorry but I had to!

Many years ago I was pulling out of a parking spot at night on a very narrow street and I was just a tad out into the street and I hear this thud and see a blur and this car without any lights on hits me and did some major damage to the front right side of my car. He stops backs up and its a marked police car and starts ragging on me how I pulled out in front of him and I said how was I supposed to see you when its dark and you had no lights of any kind on. So he starts writing me a bunch of tickets for all kinds of stuff. I was working in Federal Law Enforcement and I badged him so he then changed his tune and admitted it was his fault, he was responding to a robbery call and had all his lights out. I never did get my deductible back from that accident all those years ago.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Many years ago I was pulling out of a parking spot at night on a very narrow street and I was just a tad out into the street and I hear this thud and see a blur and this car without any lights on hits me and did some major damage to the front right side of my car. He stops backs up and its a marked police car and starts ragging on me how I pulled out in front of him and I said how was I supposed to see you when its dark and you had no lights of any kind on. So he starts writing me a bunch of tickets for all kinds of stuff. I was working in Federal Law Enforcement and I badged him so he then changed his tune and admitted it was his fault, he was responding to a robbery call and had all his lights out. I never did get my deductible back from that accident all those years ago.

Guess I'm glad he didn't try to ticket me for anything even though he had no reason to, though I'm sure if I was missing some paperwork there would've been a ticket. He told me he wasn't paying attention to the road when he hit me, hope he doesn't change his tune when he makes his report...

Sucks that you didn't get your deductible back, I'm glad my insurance has a clause so that if I'm not at fault in the accident I don't have to pay my deductible. I was definately not at fault, I was already dead stop for at least 10-15 secs when he hit me, did not make any abrupt stop or anything. He just wasn't looking.

In the last week I've read the criteria for both a bus driver and a police constable applicants.

Bus driver candidates can have no demerit points on their licenses. Police officers can have up to six. I thought that was quite something.