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First of all, sorry for the long post...

I was on my way to work this morning traveling down a road with two lanes when all of a sudden the minivan in front of me swerves into the left lane. Once they moved, I noticed why they swerved. A flat-bed semi-truck had about ten feet of the back of his truck sticking out into the road from a driveway. Once I saw this, I too swerved to miss it. I manage to miss the truck, but as I swerved into the left lane I hit the curb pretty hard on the side of the road.

Then the fun part... I get out of my car to go talk to the truck driver and he completely dismisses me and claims that if I saw the truck I should have slowed down. After calmly arguing with him for a minute or two, I tell him to pull over to get his info. He pretends to do so, then when I go up to the door to talk to him, he takes off!

I was pretty pissed and went and found the site manager for the construction site the truck-driver was coming out of. Hopefully his a** will get fired.

The end result wasn't as bad as I first feared. My front rim has some nasty curb rash and the tire has some rubber scraped off. Alignment is probably off too. Overall, I would have to say that I am impressed with the strength of the Centerline wheels. For being so light, they certainly appear to have significant strength. I took a bunch of pictures too, so we'll see what happens. I definitely don't want to be out $500 worth of a new rim, tire and alignment.

should have called to cops and filed a report.

I thought that was a little extreme over hitting a curb, plus he took off and there were no witnesses. Hopefully, the construction site manager will be able to find out who it was and go from there. He seemed like a good guy who was willing to help. I took pictures of my wheel and at lunch I will go and take some pictures of where I hit. I definitely should have gotten the license plate number, but by the time I thought of it he was driving down the road. It all happened kinda quick. Calming down now...

i would have tried to follow him. But thats just me.

At the time that he took off, I hadn't had a chance to examine my car yet, so I was still under the assumption that the damage was much worse. I didn't think I would be able to drive after him.

sorry to hear that, sucks man,

at least it isnt too bad

Sorry to hear about this Paul, let us know how how things turn out.

Hmm, the fact that he took off like that... Fleeing the Scene of an Accident right? Thats againts the law anyway I would think. Sorry to hear about the damage.

if you wold have hit the truck you would have been wrong...
you swerved and hit something.. how is the parked truck wrong??? were you following the other veh. too close to see what was ahead of you???? youi hit a fixed object, how is this a hit and run...... you go up to a parked truck and want to argue with the diver?? and you wonder why he just drives off to get away from you????