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Re: PARKING: Jersey City might refund drivers for 'illegal booting'
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Did anything ever come of this? I had been driving a car registered to my father in NY state when I was given a boot on the first offense back in March. I would love to have my $115 back.

Posted on: 2009/11/13 0:16
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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As was said, you're required by law to have liability insurance for your car. It made no sense in my situation to have collision insurance on a 30 year old car that the insurance company would only value at ~$1000 after declaring a total loss. If I had paid the extra $50/m for the 4 years I've had the car it would have been $2400 so that I could get $1000 back from the insurance company.

Also in addition to needing liability, it always makes sense to get more than the minimum you suggested. I think the minimum coverage in some liability plans start at $25,000, meaning any damage you cause in excess of that amount is no longer on the insurance company, and you could be sued for that amount. If you were to be the cause of a multi car accident, or if you were to ever cause any damage to a building or city property, you could easily rack up claims of over $100,000 and you could be taken to court for anything over what your liability insurance covers.

Posted on: 2009/6/17 14:50
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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I have a voicemail message into Thomas Van Valkenburgh, head of operations at the incinerator authority asking if he had any vehicles report back in after their shift with damage. Let's see if he calls back...

Posted on: 2009/6/16 15:15
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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After showing him the pictures, my boss is insisting that it was a piece of industrial equipment (like a frontloader) to hit that low and cause that much damage.

Posted on: 2009/6/16 14:52
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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It looks like white paint on the car, though I'm not sure if that's paint from another car or the original paint job on my car that showed through after (I know it was repainted at some point before I bought it.)

The garbage truck had already come through a few hours before, so I'm not sure why they would have been coming through again.

Posted on: 2009/6/16 14:16
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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Yes, it's a turbo diesel. There is no insurance check as I only had liability and since I don't know who hit the car, there's no insurance to collect from.

Posted on: 2009/6/15 23:14
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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Looks like I'm screwed on this one. Pathmark didn't have it on their tape, and I went to the school and was able to get a different security guard to show me the live feed of the camera closest to the street, and the angle it's at wouldn't have caught anything even if I could get them to review the footage.

The city had it towed by My Way on Tonnele and I just gave him the go ahead to salvage it. The repairs would cost thousands of dollars and I was planning on selling the car in the next month and a half as I plan on moving out of the country for a year, and I'm pretty positive I wouldn't come close to recouping the repair costs at sale.

Thanks to everyone for their support/ideas. Hopefully someone will still come forward having seen something, or a repair shop will report someone coming in today, but I'm pretty doubtful that anything will come from this.

Posted on: 2009/6/15 21:44
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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The security guy at Pathmark told me that he checked from 12:30 - 1:30 and didn't see any cars drive through with damage, so they must have turned down Monmouth from Bright.

Posted on: 2009/6/15 17:03
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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Mike, he did say that one's insurance company can subpoena the tapes. I only have liability so my insurance company isn't going to do that for me, but you had collision so maybe yours will.

Either way, I'm going to go down to the station shortly and try to speak with someone there in person rather than over the phone. If they still refuse to look into this with the knowledge that they may actually be able to solve a crime with 30 minutes of work yet actively choose not to, I'll be writing a letter to Inspector Kilduff of the JCPD, Councilman Fulop, and Mayor Healy to express my disappointment.

Posted on: 2009/6/15 16:40
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Re: Traffic Ticket - Fighting It
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It's a little set back from the corner, but there's definitely a sign there, and has been for quite some time.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Tonnele+Ave,+Jersey+City,+Hudson,+New+Jersey&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.231745,79.101563&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=Ffq5bQIdJeaV-w&split=0&ll=40.732121,-74.067228&spn=0.004236,0.009656&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.732039,-74.067227&panoid=NKy5rehOYFOUpnXcjZlK4w&cbp=12,212.84,,0,2.3

Posted on: 2009/6/15 16:15
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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The security camera at the school has a decent shot of having caught it, the security guard there even told me so, but he also said that I would need the police to review the tape and that they nor I could without them. The police told me that if there were no fatalities, they won't review surveillance footage.

I spoke with the security manager at the Pathmark and explained what was going on, and he seemed very sympathetic and interested in helping and is going to take a look at his tapes between 1:00-1:25 to look for any car driving through with extensive damage to the passenger front side (which is the way their cameras face)

I'm pretty disappointed that the police seemingly care so little about it. I understand that there are more important issues than someone's car being hit, but the fact remains that whoever did this is still running around and could have very easily killed someone with that sort of behavior. The camera from the school would have a decent chance of catching the entire accident on tape, yet they have no interest in helping out with this.

Posted on: 2009/6/15 16:07
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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The black Honda parked in front of me with the rear corner damage belonged to someone in #126.

Posted on: 2009/6/15 14:01
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Re: Parked car totaled in hit and run
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They must have been heading westbound because they hit the driver's side corner bumper on the guy's car in front of me.

I'm in one of those two set back houses. My girlfriend had an idea to call the school and Pathmark to see if they have any cameras that might have picked anything up, but as was said, I'm not sure how much good finding a driver would even do.

Posted on: 2009/6/15 12:21
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Parked car totaled in hit and run
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About two hours ago my parked car was (likely) totaled in a hit and run on Bright St. (btw Varick/Monmouth).

The police have estimated that the offending car likely has significant damage to its passenger front side. If anyone owns an automotive/body repair shop in the area (or knows anyone who does) and sees anyone come in with similar damage to their car in the coming days, possibly with silver paint marks on the body, please call the Jersey City Police Department and e-mail me with any information. ( marc AT devens . org)

Thank you.

Here are pictures of the damage if anyone's interested:
http://momar.net/images/accident1.jpg
http://momar.net/images/accident2.jpg
http://momar.net/images/accident3.jpg

Posted on: 2009/6/15 7:52
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