Hi Everyone,
My 2021 Model Y got rear-ended on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles last week. The hit pushed my car into the car in front of me. I have the footage from Tesla dashcam and it is pretty clear the person who hit me was on their phone and did not break at all, came in at full speed. The car was working after the accident but just completely went offline an hour later and has been offline ever since. It has been at the tow yard for over a week now (not even sure how they got it there lol); but there have been a few tow truck drivers attempt at transporting it to the body shop from the tow yard but they are unsuccessful.
This is my first car and my first accident so I am not sure what I am supposed to do. The insurance adjuster went to the tow yard today and said damage is only 9K... the car just does not turn on though and I am hoping it is a total loss when the body shop looks at it internally. If not, I definitely will file a DV claim but if anyone has any experience in that, please let me know how it went for you. I researched about it but there are a lot of different things being said on how to go about it and I am a little confused, I don't want to get lawyers involved but will if I have to.
I attached photos below... it truly sucks when this stuff happens and you didn't even do anything, you just have to deal with the aftermath.. so inconvenient with finals coming up.
My 2021 Model Y got rear-ended on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles last week. The hit pushed my car into the car in front of me. I have the footage from Tesla dashcam and it is pretty clear the person who hit me was on their phone and did not break at all, came in at full speed. The car was working after the accident but just completely went offline an hour later and has been offline ever since. It has been at the tow yard for over a week now (not even sure how they got it there lol); but there have been a few tow truck drivers attempt at transporting it to the body shop from the tow yard but they are unsuccessful.
This is my first car and my first accident so I am not sure what I am supposed to do. The insurance adjuster went to the tow yard today and said damage is only 9K... the car just does not turn on though and I am hoping it is a total loss when the body shop looks at it internally. If not, I definitely will file a DV claim but if anyone has any experience in that, please let me know how it went for you. I researched about it but there are a lot of different things being said on how to go about it and I am a little confused, I don't want to get lawyers involved but will if I have to.
I attached photos below... it truly sucks when this stuff happens and you didn't even do anything, you just have to deal with the aftermath.. so inconvenient with finals coming up.