
Kennesaw State Police Discriminates
Posted Mar 2, 2011 by anonymous | 222 views | 1 comments
On August 4, at approximately 11: 15 a.m. I was involved in an accident on Bartow Ave, at the entrance of Building 29, at Kennesaw State University. I was cautiously backing out from a parking space in front of the Visual Arts building. I checked to see if all was clear and it was. Suddenly, as I turned the steering to angle the car, I saw a forklift loaded with pallets coming in my direction at full speed from the top of the hill. I could not see the driver since the crates were stacked so high, and I was certain that he could not see me, as he later admitted. My son was sitting in the passenger's seat, and I was fearful that the forklift would plunge right into him. In a split I decided to quickly put my car in drive and get back into the spot as quickly as I could. As I was pulling into the parking space and sounding my horn at the same time, the inevitable happened. My car was approximately 2/3 into the parking space, when I heard the impact. The pallets on the forklift rammed into the tail end of my car on the passenger side, as I was moving into the parking space. The impact was so loud. The car lifted somewhat and was actually moved by the impact. When my car and the forklift came to a halt, I immediately came out and went to the passenger side to make sure that my son was alright. He was holding his head and crying. I opened his door and the driver of the forklift came up to me, alongside the door, and apologized, saying. “I'm sorry maa'm, I just did not see you.” The police was immediately called and about four Kennesaw police arrived on the scene. I called my husband to take my son to the emergency room, on the advice of the medics, who were also called to the scene. The chair of my department was there, and a staff member was called to take pictures of the scene. The officers and the owners of the forklift (I assumed), along with the driver of the forklift were all together conversing about the incident. Immediately, upon my son leaving, Kennesaw State police officer, JR Foster, Badge #784, came to me and demanded that I sign the traffic citation. I informed him that I needed to speak with the driver of the forklift that I needed to get his name and insurance information. I also informed the officer that a statement was not taken from neither my son nor I. I questioned as to why I was being cited since the driver of the forklift hit my while I was moving into the parking space, and that he had admitted to not having seen me. The officer again demanded that I sign the citation. I informed him that I needed to speak with my insurance company first. He again demanded that I needed to sign the form before talking to any one, and that I needed to do so immediately. I informed him that I felt pressured into signing for something that was obviously not my fault and that I had no knowledge of the conversation he had had with the driver of the forklift. He was somewhat loud at this time and again demanded that I sign the form. Because of this intimidation and out of fear for perhaps being placed in handcuffs until I did sign, I obliged. I informed the officer that I needed to speak with the driver of the forklift and he said that I didn't have to since he had already spoken to him. I knew that something was wrong here. I became suspicious that perhaps the young driver did not have the proper certification or insurance to drive the forklift. I started to walk towards the forklift where the driver was perched, ready to drive off. Officer JR Foster again demanded that I move aside and away from the forklift, allowing the driver to move off. I could not believe what had just happened. I had absolutely no information from the young forklift driver who plummeted into the back of my car. It was obvious that the officers and the owner/s of the forklift company were protecting him. While I was consoling my son and waiting for him to be taken to the hospital the Kennesaw police took the opportunity to talk to the driver of the forklift and to turn his story so as to frame me for the accident. I have no doubt that I was discriminated against and treated unfairly by officer JR Foster of the Kennesaw police. I was prevented from taking the necessary information I needed to at the scene of an accident, by the Kennesaw State police. In my opinion they acted very improperly.
Commented Nov 15, 2011 by anonymous
You entered his lane of travel causing the accident. How is that discrimination? Learn the law