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Originally Posted by streak_56
But from stories I heard about accidents, most recently my step-sister... its never their fault. There is always an excuse for something. Personally I think if you're honest with the cop while speeding, he/she might let you off with a warning.
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This has been my experience. I've only been in one wreck that was my fault, and I flat out ran a red light because I wasn't paying attention. A mustang driving across the intersection had no time to avoid me and she slammed into me. When the cop got there, he pulled out his notebook and tiredly asked me, "Okay, let's hear the brilliance. What happened." I simply said, "It's my fault. I ran the red light and she hit me."
He did not give me a ticket for running the light, and the accident report simply said "Inattention." I think he was grateful that I owned up to the blame and didn't give him some 20-minute soap opera story.
As to the other comments made by several folks, I also agree that America's litigious society is to blame for most of this problem. It seems that in the 60's, there was an attempt to correct social evils by using the courts, and anybody who claimed to be a victim was believed to be so. That in turn has taught people to tell stories so that the story-teller is a perpetual victim; even it was their fault.