Attacked by a beetle.......twice

[radarwhiz]

On my way to campus for my Saturday class this morning when a beetle beside me driven by a young female driver, freshly licensed, merged into my lane forcing me to take quite extreme evasive action. Pulling into the parking lot two adjacent spaces are available and she takes one. As I pull up to back into the other one she suddenly begins reversing while I'm right behind her. I stop short so as to take the hit on either a fender or door instead of the quarter panel. I lay on my horn but to no avail and bang.

Fortunatley my front wheel took the entire force of the impact and the only body damage was just a miniscule scratch on the fender. Her rear bumper was much more significantly gouged. She had just got her license this week and still had temp tags on the car her parents bought for her and was listed secondary on her parents insurance policy.

When I told her that she had also run me off the road just a few blocks previous, her response was the expected, "I had no idea. I never even saw you there!" I then went on to explain that before reversing it is customary to look behind oneself to which she responded that they didn't require that to pass the driver's test.

I am glad my car is ok but appalled at the pathetic excuse for drivers that I must share the road with.