Will having a car accident affect my record?

will having a car accident affect my record at all? i wasn't cited, the cop just wrote a report of the accident. total loss of vehicle, but no injuries, and it was only me involved.

just wondering if a company would find out about it or not, if not, i won't bother mentioning it.

 

would a company care about this?

 

I can't find the accident report right now, my wife moved it, you know how that goes.

Basically I was coming home from work, I live an hr away and I'm tired, it's dark, 5 in the morning, etc. I'm in the right hand lane getting ready to exit and a tractor trailer is completely stopped infront of me, no flashers, no triangles, nothing. There is a shoulder to pull off onto, but he's only halfway on the shoulder and half into the right lane. I didn't think I had enough time to stop without rear ending him, so I swerve to the left, lose control because I'm going 60 mph on the highway, and I slam into a concrete wall. Car was a total loss, but no injuries. When I got out to go and ask the truck driver WTF his problem was, he took off.

I couldn't get the tag number of the truck driver, so my insurance had to pay for it. Had I not been so tired, had it not been so dark, I could have avoided it most likely, but at the same time, he shouldn't have been stopped in the middle of the road. My insurance paid for it, and I'm sure it'll look bad for me. This is the only incident I have had in the last 5 years, would it stop me from getting a job? Most companies say "CLEAN MVR", but they allow for an incident here and there, so who knows.

 

Because they left immediately when I had the accident. It was dark, not exactly easy to do. Was I supposed to chase them on foot, while sore from the accident? There was no time, I mean NO time. As soon as I exited the vehicle, the trucker saw what he had did, and took off. Plus I'm pretty sure it was an owner op for a smaller company, not exactly a huge logo or truck number that I could see from where I was.

I would love to know who did it, I wouldn't have let it go so easily, hell if my car was still drive-able, I'd have chased him down the road. But this isn't my question, I just want to know if a company will hire me based on having an accident in my car like this.

 

Think about it, if you're in the ####### mindset of not caring about properly pulling over, because you just wanted to stop to pick up a piece of food on the ground, or whatever the hell reason he stopped, and you saw what you had done, would you have stuck around? He fled before I could do a ###### thing, a #### coward. So I'm out of luck.