Reeder's Take

   Can you imagine hitting someone with your car and then getting out and realizing the guy you hit is Carolina Panthers receiver Steve Smith – while he was on the way to a nationally televised football game?
   Not a scenario I’d want to be in.
   But that’s what happened Thursday night when Smith was driving along Colony Drive in Charlotte listening to Christian rap music in a new Maserati he’d bought just six weeks ago. Another car allegedly sideswiped Smith, causing damage up and down the driver’s side.
   “I was pulling out of the hotel coming down the road and just kind of cruising,” Smith said. “I’m not lying, I wasn’t speeding. I was just kind of cruising. I had an hour to be (to the stadium) so I was just kind of cruising. Then a guy comes over and decides to become one with me in the lane and sideswipes me and basically (there was damage) from the front end to back on the driver’s side.”
   Smith said he had to forcefully push the door open to get out.
   “I said, ‘Man, you’ve got to be freaking kidding me,’” Smith said. “He kind of looked at me and was like, ‘You want to call the cops.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ So we exchanged information and the cops came. We were in a predominantly good area so they were there in three minutes. Back home (in Los Angeles) they never came that quick in my neighborhood. So we exchanged information and he said, ‘I was in a hurry to get to the game.’”
   At that point, Smith gave the guy a look like, “Uh, no kidding.”
   “I was thankful nothing bad happened,” Smith said. “But I feel bad for his insurance (company). It was an accident. Things happen.”

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