[lamehonda]

Not to be mean, but you can't expect the car to continue functioning after a big impact like this. If your air bags had gone off, would you expected them to have gone off again after you fell off the bridge? Why would you want to kill someone that didn't try to kill you? Life is cruel, learn to enjoy its cruel moments. This doesn't really compare to your situation, but is a better example of somebody that you should want to kill. When I was an 18y/o college student, a drunk driver demolished the back of my first car at 2 am while it was parked in front of my house. He then proceeded to run his drunk ass , on foot, down the street where the cops finally caught up to him. I had to buy a new car because my car was older and he did over $2000 in damage and made the car undriveable. I was in college at the time and had to ask my parents for money for the new car(that sucked). It took the courts 2 months to figure out how to punish him. In the meantime I had to walk 2 miles one way to work(that sucked even more) The courts finally awarded me $1535 to repair my car which had probably already been crushed. They gave him a year to pay me the total of the settlement. It has been 5 years now and I haven't seen a dime. He is at large and when the cops locate Frank Mcintyre, I assume he will be spending quite a nice amount of time in jail. I will probably get the money someday, now that I don't really NEED it. What really burned my ass is that the whole time I was walking to work, his pickup was still functional and he was probably using it to get back and forth to the bar.

Your accident sounds like exactly that. Innocent people sometimes make big mistakes. It is usually best to forgive them and move on. It doesn't sound like she did any financial damage to your mother.