First I ![[bigcry]](/images/smilies/icon_smile_bigcry.gif "Big Cry [bigcry]")
Then I was![[?|]](/images/smilies/icon_smile_banghead.gif "Bang Head [?|]")
And then, I wanted to![[hatchet]](/images/smilies/icon_smile_hatchet.gif "Hatchet [hatchet]")
the guy who did this to me...
I was stationary at a yield sign while on a roadtrip in Vancouver Canada. My parents in the car with me.
All of a sudden, WHAM! The car jolts forward, I realize I've been hit from behind. I get out and see it's a Dodge Ram, with a tow hitch on the front! The truck is barely dented, my car's trunk has detached and warped, the whole trunk caved in and sheetmetal over the rear right wheel arch is warped.
To cut a long story short (one that features a fit of hysterics seeing the damage, a 1 hour wait in the rain and then an ambulance ride to the hospital) .... the car is still in a body shop in Vancouver awaiting an estimate. Friends say it will be fixable, not totalled. I hope so, I can't afford a new car right now... Besides that car has sentimental value- I picked it up in Munich and enjoyed one of the best vacations I can remember.
I say, thank goodness we're all ok. (Minor whiplash injuries and a constant throbbing pain in my head aside). The airbag did not deploy obviously but the seatbelt pre-tensioner mechanism fires with a similar charge to airbags and so there were small particles and that strange burning smell in the air, and the airbag deployed light came on. The hazards came on, doors unlocked as promised by all the safety spiel in the brochures.
Alas, my car will no doubt never be the same. One more reason a lease was a wise idea. 2 years left and I can walk away from it and not have to worry about selling a car that has two different halves welded together....
![[:(]](/images/smilies/frown.png "Frown [:(]")
Then I was
And then, I wanted to
the guy who did this to me...I was stationary at a yield sign while on a roadtrip in Vancouver Canada. My parents in the car with me.
All of a sudden, WHAM! The car jolts forward, I realize I've been hit from behind. I get out and see it's a Dodge Ram, with a tow hitch on the front! The truck is barely dented, my car's trunk has detached and warped, the whole trunk caved in and sheetmetal over the rear right wheel arch is warped.
To cut a long story short (one that features a fit of hysterics seeing the damage, a 1 hour wait in the rain and then an ambulance ride to the hospital) .... the car is still in a body shop in Vancouver awaiting an estimate. Friends say it will be fixable, not totalled. I hope so, I can't afford a new car right now... Besides that car has sentimental value- I picked it up in Munich and enjoyed one of the best vacations I can remember.
I say, thank goodness we're all ok. (Minor whiplash injuries and a constant throbbing pain in my head aside). The airbag did not deploy obviously but the seatbelt pre-tensioner mechanism fires with a similar charge to airbags and so there were small particles and that strange burning smell in the air, and the airbag deployed light came on. The hazards came on, doors unlocked as promised by all the safety spiel in the brochures.
Alas, my car will no doubt never be the same. One more reason a lease was a wise idea. 2 years left and I can walk away from it and not have to worry about selling a car that has two different halves welded together....
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![[bash]](/images/smilies/icon_smile_bash.gif "Bash [bash]"){kind=icon}
![[eek]](/images/smilies/eek.png "EEK! [eek]")
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) state that at a yield sign, you must come to a complete stop, check the state of traffic and, if clear, proceed into the road.![[hihi]](/images/smilies/icon_smile_hihi.gif "Hi Hi [hihi]"){kind=icon}