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Due to the carelessness of another driver, I was involved in another accident. It's been less than 24 hours since my fender bender last night when an off-duty cop rear-ended my Z at a red light. I had been stopped at this red light for 10 seconds or more. How should I start out. Well... Friday, my new Honda Civic Hybrid was hit by someone in a parking lot. Sunday, after leaving Chuck's house, my Z was rear-ended by an off-duty police officer at a traffic light. And.... now..... today, coming back from William's Autobody after getting an estimate on the rear bumper, an idiot ran a stop sign right in front of me and I slammed into his tank. It caused damage to my front fascia which consisted of cracked paint, missing paint chips, and a deep gouge as a result of the collision with his front wheel. My new big brakes saved me from hitting him at a faster speed. I do have a witness and he saw the driver of the Cadillac run the stop sign right in front of me while I was coming down the hill. I was doing about 25 mph when I hit the brakes and probably impacted him around 8-10 mph. The accident took place while I was traveling eastbound on Serramonte Blvd and the Cadillac was attempting to make a left turn onto westbound Serramonte Blvd from northbound Collins Ave. As I was coming down Serramonte Blvd, I saw him pull up to the stop sign. I actually made eye contact with the driver. When I closed within 8-10 feet of that area in front of his stop sign, he abruptly pulled into the street. There was no way that I could have stopped in time. I believe my new brakes prevented me from hitting him at a full 25 mph, which by the way, is the speed limit on my street. I guess... good thing I hit him square and didn't swerve to avoid him. That prolly would have resulted in an offset impact resulting in irrepairable damage to my fascia and possibly destruction of my HID headlight. Anyone want to give my Z a safer home? No, I am going to keep my car and do my best to avoid all this crap. Maybe, I've been driving too carefully and I need to be more aggressive.
Where the accident took place. 
The culprit that caused my latest accident.
My car... Damage included cracked and spiderwebbed paint, missing paint chips, rippled seam on the driver's side of the bumper, and a gouge on the left side of the license plate bracket. William is going to get my front end done by Friday , the Invisibra is going on Saturday, and I have a small meet on Sunday to go to. With my luck, if I had my car trailered to the show on Sunday, the truck would flip over.
I've been in 3 accidents over 4 days and I hope that things will get better for me. I know that there have been a lot of Z destruction lately, notably Arnel, Snoguitar, and others. I guess I should count myself lucky that my damage is cosmetic and repairable and that my car is not totalled (knock on wood, metal, plastic, or any other good luck charm available). Prayers, good luck wishes, blessings, sprinkling of holy water, sprinkling of holy race gas, I dunno, whatever works to get rid of my luck would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening to my rant and I hope things will get better for me. I'm still alive and I live in a great country filled with great peeps. I'm proud to be an American and I sure as hell won't take my life for granted. Here's the rest of the pictures:
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Dialup ?able. I got into another accident with the Z today. - 
