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SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

Hello people:

I was walking home from work tonight and came up to a clearly marked pedestrian walkway. After I waited for the green pedestrian lamp to light up, I crossed the walkway and met up with a Korean driver in a white sedan doing one of those infamous "Uewies" pretty much in the middle of the walkway. I'm a quick guy, and I remember not being able to get out of the asshole's way fast enough...the bumper tagged my left shin and I heard an audible "thwack," but god bless those crumple zones on cars, because I have only the slightest pain in my leg. I think the driver stayed at the scene or made an attempt to, but I only stuck around long enough to get the plate #.
As I mentioned, I have no injuries (maybe it will smart later) and I just want to report the jerk who hit me. I know that its not home, but I have to say the driving I've seen (and now experienced Crying or Very sad

) here so far seems insane. BTW, are there any Ulsanites that know the contact # for police or traffic office?

periwinkle · Joined: 08 Feb 2003

Sorry that happened to you. I would've stayed if I had been you. You could've gotten some cash out of it. Only way drivers learn anything is to pay their hard-earned cash for their mistakes. If you leave the scene, it won't matter if you took down the license. You need to stay there where there are witnesses. I hope your leg's ok!

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Shouldn't have left the scene.

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

Koreans are probably the worst drivers in the developed world. Thier road toll stats support this. You have to be extremely defensive as a driver or pedestrain on Korean roads.

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

why would you want to report him if you didn't even stay the scene long enough to follow due process?

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Contact the police? Hahaha.

Most car accidents are handled on the scene with an exchange of "blood money," keeping police and especially car insurance companies out of it.

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

If you really wanted to have the driver reported you should have waited there, with the driver, unitl the police arrived, and then it would have been off to the doctor to see how much damage was done to your leg in order to evaluate how much money you would receive from the driver.

keithinkorea · Joined: 17 Mar 2004

Yeah you should have hung around. Feigning a much more serious injury, you could have got a load of blood money out of him.

Everyone would have benefitted, he'd hopefully learn to drive a bit more safely and you would have had a nice little cash bonus. A win win situation all around.

SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

I definitely hear what you guys are saying. I could possibly have received some sort of compensation if I had stuck around. But I knew the impact wasn't hard enough to have caused any sort of serious harm to my leg, and a visit to a doctor (excluding quack doctors...) would confirm it, ie., an x-ray.
I didn't suffer any real physical harm, other than an ego bruise Wink

However, I agree that there was a possibility to have received money under the table from the driver, if he or she were willing, but who's to say they would be? I wasn't aware that it's common practice for native drivers to pay up willingly for their driving mistakes without a legal fight. Sad

Let's say that I took the blunt impact of the car and that I lay on the ground in agonising pain from a broken hip. Then there would be no leaving the scene. That wasn't the case, though, the bumper hit my leg as I leaped away from the front of the car. I didn't fall to the ground, I didn't yell in pain, I didn't scream bloody murder... Would any of you have faked out to try to get some "blood money"? Next time, though (knock on wood), I will be staying on the scene for the sake of covering the bases.

stumptown · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:48 am Post subject:

edited for drunken stupidity

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

Don't forget about the mental pain and trauma.
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...wait no I mean Crying or Very sad

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pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

Not the same thing, but many years ago I was driving home on a road in back of the university I taught at. At that time, there was a very narrow bridge (not much more than the width of the typical cement country paths that farmers have through rice fields) and I just started crossing it when a bus comes from the other direction, going at quite a clip, and nearly at the center of the road. I had to swerve clear to the right to avoid being nailed, causing the front passenger door to hit a bolt sticking out of the side of the bridge, shredding the door like a piece of paper. The bus neither stopped nor slowed down (and the driver could see clearly what happened, I'm sure). I had no place to turn around and chase him, and no time to catch a license number.

I went to the local police station and reported it. I explained what happened and where, and the officers even went outside to look at the vehicle's door. However, it became clear nothing would ever be done, as I didn't have the license number of the bus or witnesses. One of the officers called the bus company and told them to "be careful" (yeah, right...).