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Mar. 23rd, 2005 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiLuck was smiling on me yesterday when I left work (despite a crazy/crappy day at work). I was waiting for a chance to merge into the Fellsway/Rt 28 rotary on 93 which is hell at rush hour, and some dumbass didn't yield behind me and rear-ended me!
Amazingly, my Saturn Coupe (complete with fiberglass bumper) was unscathed! We pulled over and out of the rotary and nothing happened, no crushing, no denting (the fiberglass doesn't dent, typically it just gives making for easier/cheaper repair). Everything under the car looks fine, I was fine, so we just went on our way. He said "oh sorry, I was looking in the rotary and didn't see you" and was excited to see that I didn't want to make a big deal about it. Here's hoping from now on he pays a bit more attention!
This is the 3rd time I've been rear-ended in the almost 15 years I've been driving. Previous cars resulted in bent/dented bumpers and a bent frame (!) that totalled the car. The first accident resulted in a lot of neck damage for me because the impact was pretty hard (by a tow truck) and I wasn't wearing a seatbelt (silly me). Both previous collisions were in old tanks and its THIS dinky fiberglass Saturn that went unscathed? Hooray for small impacts! Hooray for spring luck! In the state of Mass a rear-end collision would have been automatically 100% his fault for insurance purposes, but I'm glad to not have to deal with that headache.
Amazingly, my Saturn Coupe (complete with fiberglass bumper) was unscathed! We pulled over and out of the rotary and nothing happened, no crushing, no denting (the fiberglass doesn't dent, typically it just gives making for easier/cheaper repair). Everything under the car looks fine, I was fine, so we just went on our way. He said "oh sorry, I was looking in the rotary and didn't see you" and was excited to see that I didn't want to make a big deal about it. Here's hoping from now on he pays a bit more attention!
This is the 3rd time I've been rear-ended in the almost 15 years I've been driving. Previous cars resulted in bent/dented bumpers and a bent frame (!) that totalled the car. The first accident resulted in a lot of neck damage for me because the impact was pretty hard (by a tow truck) and I wasn't wearing a seatbelt (silly me). Both previous collisions were in old tanks and its THIS dinky fiberglass Saturn that went unscathed? Hooray for small impacts! Hooray for spring luck! In the state of Mass a rear-end collision would have been automatically 100% his fault for insurance purposes, but I'm glad to not have to deal with that headache.
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Close call
Date: 2005-03-23 04:12 pm (UTC)Re: Close call
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Date: 2005-03-23 06:15 pm (UTC)Aw, shucks! Thanks guys! :)
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