Crashed after 4 days!

Wow! What a story. I'm glad you didn't get physically hurt.

 

From the details of your story I will guess you’re underestimating his speed.

VERY IMPORTANT: make sure the body shop your car goes to is certified to work on Tesla cars. That is the only way you can be sure they know the special needs of both aluminum body parts AND the paint both temperature limits of the battery electric systems.

An added advantage is not only would they do the repairs right but also the estimate will be higher so there is a greater chance the car will get totaled resulting in a new Clarity for you. However, the insurance company will choose repair over replace even if the savings is minimal.

 

Bummer dude. Keep us informed of how the whole repair process goes! I'd love to see ONE wrecked Clarity brought to conclusion on this website. Those who report these accidents tend to fade away and not provide updates. Your firsthand experiences will be extremely valuable to others. And I sincerely wish you as positive outcome as you can possibly get, given the circumstances...

 

Glad you are safe!

 

In a situation like you describe, you will be far better served simply filing under your own coverage and paying your deductible...no matter what the police report happens to say about his insurance. Even proving whether the driver was the car owner will likely be investigated. Intentional/criminal act exclusions maycome into play. Court appearances and subpoenas may be needed. This all takes eons of time. Let your insurance company worry about going after the other guy on the back end.

This is not your typical “oops my bad I flaked out” type of accident from the other guy’s perspective, where an at fault persons company just steps up and handles your damage. FAR from it. Even the police have no idea if this was a stolen car or not since they let the driver run, and they can prove little unless he was apprehended and confessed

As a retired claim adjuster, I can assure you that you will not want to wait the many months it will take to get the other insurance company to agree to handle a claim of this nature for you. The roadblocks and frustration you will encounter are likely to drive you ape-turd.

Just get your car fixed right now under your own collision coverage, and discuss your options for deductible recovery at a later time with your company. You don’t need a police report at all to do this thru your company immediately.

 

When I was hit I looked for a Honda ProFirst Body Shop (https://owners.honda.com/collision/) All I can say is Big E Auto Body in Seattle did great work. I was concerned with matching the white pearl paint and their painter nailed it. Good luck and sorry for your trouble, I was hit 180 miles from home and it added some complications.

 

Don't let them tell you to get them a copy of the police report. That will cost you money to buy it (probably 20 bucks or more). Just give them the file number of the report and what jurisdiction did the report. Let the insurance company pay for the copy. That's what your premiums are for. They'll let you pay for as much as you're willing to.

I'm retired from law enforcement and that's what I told folks to do when they were in a T/C.

 

Sorry for your loss, hope things go well.

 

Insurance will always reimburse for police reports. Even if they order their own and get a duplicate. Nothing wrong with you helping them expedite obtaining a copy. Agreed your company just needs confirmation of date of loss. This is a typical short delay on new polices. You’d be stunned at the number of uninsured people who wreck, then buy insurance afterwards and try to make a claim lying about date and time of accident. If your excitement happened to make the news, sometimes a copy of the article or link to news story can suffice as proof too.

Hopefully the cop turns it in timely. Some police are known to sit on reports for a week or two before submitting, so you can’t even get it quickly. That sucks when it happens.

 

It sounds like you're in SGV -- I used to have a Civic CNG, which also has its own temperature concerns when painting the body since there's a 3600 PSI tank of gas in it. When I got rear-ended in that car, I first had the compressed gas system safety inspected at the Honda dealership then took it to C&C Collision in Alhambra as they don't use a heat booth when painting the car. They do amazing work, but they're also expensive and slow.

 

Inside the driver door jam.

D2F292D5-D992-467D-9DC7-1E328F5FE6AB by The Gadgeteer posted Apr 5, 2019 at 11:53 AM

I read somewhere to limit to a certain amount of minutes. I want to say it was 45 minutes.

 

I live in NJ. The report cost a few bucks but I end up getting like 3 copies, with a laminated info sheet explaining the different codes, for free thanks to overly eager lawyers sending it to me and begging me to hire them to represent me in lawsuits.
7K seems low to fix the car. I would expect the cost to go over 10k. Maybe the repair shop would just drop the batt pack before baking the car to prevent batt damage.