On July 5th we were coming back home from a wonderful visit with in-laws when we had a terrible accident. All I can remember of the whole thing was commenting to Mrs. Phy how much the locals must be enjoying all the rain we just started to see. Anyway, while I was being “worked” on in the hospital ER, a state trooper walked in the room and presented me with a ticket for “careless operation of a vehicle”. Wow, I guess he must have thought that after 46 years with a perfect driving record, I just decided on a mere whim to begin turning ‘donuts’ on the wet highway with the whole family on board. Anyway, after weeks of phone calls to the officials in LA and after getting the assistance from an attorney, the ‘powers that be’ in LA said that since the accident only involved our vehicle and since there was no public property damaged and since I possessed said perfect driving record, the moving violation of “careless operation of a vehicle “would be reduced to a non-moving violation of “improper operation of a vehicle”. I still haven’t figured out how you improperly operate a vehicle with it parked (non moving ) ??? Maybe Jeff C. understands.
Phynerk
