fender bender

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Waymo provides customers with a list of frequently asked questions after they enroll with the service that provides basic information about their ride, but the company declined to answer specifics about what a passenger should do if they’re involved in a fender bender while riding in one of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times

On the last day of his life, Jonathan Mauk got into a fender bender in the parking lot of the Walmart in Highland, an accident that would otherwise be of little consequence.

From Los Angeles Times

“This is a case of a fender bender immediately escalating to hateful language and then brutal, deadly violence,” Katz said in a news release.

From Seattle Times

In 2018, an officer found a driver who had been responsible for a hit-and-run fender bender by falsely claiming to a third person that the driver had critically injured someone in the collision.

From Seattle Times

The nature of the accident matters A fender bender that causes $1,000 of damage to another car will likely have only a small effect on your insurance rates, pushing them up 20% at most.

From Encyclopedia.com