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I've got two good ones...
First one, It was a nice Friday mid-afternoon, I had no homework, (a big feat in college, for me), the day was beautiful and all of my friends were gone for the weekend. What better to do than have a nice 6 hour drive home in my baby, hang out and drive back late Sunday night. Well, I got about 2 hours into my trip and was clipping along at a decent 85mph when I crested, one of a series of rolling hills. (this is on a highway) Well, to my dismay, traffic was STOPPED. I immediatly braced myself and started pumping the brakes hard. Managed to stop about 1 foot from the rear bumper of whatever was in front of me. I was extreemly happy, and all without locking up the tires. I was still braced hard against the wheel and brakes when I glanced in my rearview mirror... 9 cars were comming at me in every different direction you could possibly think of!!!!!! I braced harder in that instant and took impact, after impact after impact, pushing me into that car I had done so well to avoid hitting. Horrible thing to be sitting in your small car, (92 MX3 GS), wondering when the cars are going to stop sliding up on your rear. Turns out somebody was doing about 95 in a corolla, back over one of the other crests and rearended a car doing like 45, (it was a construction zone kind of deal, but the lights weren't flashing on the signs). All of this chain reactioned through 9 cars and up to me, who was at the end of stopped traffic, where the lanes went from 2-1. I got hit in the left-rear-side by a new crown vic doing about 40, he got hit by the car behind and so on. To make that one worse, the pileup caused a panic attack behind it and caused a seperate 5 car pileup! What was amazing was that nobody was hurt. cars and trucks had their whole front ends ripped off, but nobody was hurt. My car was mainly damaged in the left rear, up to the door. Suspension and frame damage. After Allstate found my car, (they lost it for 2 weeks!!!!!!), they finally wrote it off and gave me a check for another just like it. If anybodies still reading, here's my second wreck
(oh yeah, all of it got blamed on the corolla, which incidently had just been completely re-built from another totalling wreck. it had no front end this time)
So it took me about 2 months of being without a car to find another MX3 GS auto with a sunroof, (physical reasons), not an easy thing to do on the east coast of the states. I'm home for my first summer off from college, (usually work for the college), and have followed my jeeper buddies up a mountain behind the house, where we go 4-wheelin. (I used to follow them up to where the gravel road stopped and the "trail" began) Well, we had a great time ontop of the mountain that night, drove back out and I got back in my beloved MX3. We head back down the mountain, me following a decent distance behind because of the dust trail from the dry gravel. Well, I come around a very slight left hand bend and a deer jumps up the bank at me. I hit it and it sends my car into a gentle drift, (I"m going about 25mph upon impact), towards the side of the road where there is no guardrail and the mountain drops off steeply, for a good distance. I quickly counter it and start sliding the opposite direction. I almost have it back under control when the bank pops up outta nowhere, down, whack and I'm in the air. I went down in the ditch on the bank-side, smacked the only rock there was with my passenger front corner, it caught me, flipped me over and spun me half way around! That was a heck of a ride in an MX3!! I set there for a few seconds and realized what had happened, (windshield shattered, roof caved, no side glass). I popped my belts, fell a little bit, jammed the door open and drug myself out, lights still on, stereo still thumpin. A few minutes later a big loud pickup comes up. a bunch of good ole' boys were having a bachelors party down the mountain and saw me wreck. They looked at me, loocked at my car and said, "I bet we can flip it back over!". I was like, Ok?! About 5 of them got together on one side and heaved on it, BAM, it was back upright. Then they kicked the windshield out, threw my flat spare tire on her and 3 of em piled in with me to make sure I got it home safe, stereo cranked, no glass, crushed roof and a flat spare tire,
We got to the bottom of the mountain and it turned to asphalt, the flat spare disentigrated immediatly and I was running rim to pavement, . And there was a stopsign, that I of course stopped for. (that was fun trying to get going again!) So I drove it home and parked it in front of my yard. She's still parked there, I didn't turn it in on my insurance because I have good rates and I didn't want to screw myself out of being able to drive somthing decent. I worked the rest of the summer, cashed some stock, sold some parts and other stuff and found myself my dream MX3, (in stock form anyways), an SE, (which comes stock with all the options, I wanted v6, leather and it was an auto-physical reasons), for a price I could handle. So once again, after not having a car for a few months, I was back in an MX3, and one with what I wanted and in much better shape (the one that flipped was burning oil like a mo-fo) Oh, and the best part is all I got was a scrape on my elbow,about an inch long, no blood even! What amazed me about that wreck was there was NO frame damage. Just a popped strut and 7k in bodywork. And that is a long winded account for my two bad wrecks (sorry for the length, if anybody made it this far!)
peace,
~I am attaching two pics. the first is the one that got rearended, it doesn't look that bad, but that's because it's pretty dark..
First one, It was a nice Friday mid-afternoon, I had no homework, (a big feat in college, for me), the day was beautiful and all of my friends were gone for the weekend. What better to do than have a nice 6 hour drive home in my baby, hang out and drive back late Sunday night. Well, I got about 2 hours into my trip and was clipping along at a decent 85mph when I crested, one of a series of rolling hills. (this is on a highway) Well, to my dismay, traffic was STOPPED. I immediatly braced myself and started pumping the brakes hard. Managed to stop about 1 foot from the rear bumper of whatever was in front of me. I was extreemly happy, and all without locking up the tires. I was still braced hard against the wheel and brakes when I glanced in my rearview mirror... 9 cars were comming at me in every different direction you could possibly think of!!!!!! I braced harder in that instant and took impact, after impact after impact, pushing me into that car I had done so well to avoid hitting. Horrible thing to be sitting in your small car, (92 MX3 GS), wondering when the cars are going to stop sliding up on your rear. Turns out somebody was doing about 95 in a corolla, back over one of the other crests and rearended a car doing like 45, (it was a construction zone kind of deal, but the lights weren't flashing on the signs). All of this chain reactioned through 9 cars and up to me, who was at the end of stopped traffic, where the lanes went from 2-1. I got hit in the left-rear-side by a new crown vic doing about 40, he got hit by the car behind and so on. To make that one worse, the pileup caused a panic attack behind it and caused a seperate 5 car pileup! What was amazing was that nobody was hurt. cars and trucks had their whole front ends ripped off, but nobody was hurt. My car was mainly damaged in the left rear, up to the door. Suspension and frame damage. After Allstate found my car, (they lost it for 2 weeks!!!!!!), they finally wrote it off and gave me a check for another just like it. If anybodies still reading, here's my second wreck
(oh yeah, all of it got blamed on the corolla, which incidently had just been completely re-built from another totalling wreck. it had no front end this time)So it took me about 2 months of being without a car to find another MX3 GS auto with a sunroof, (physical reasons), not an easy thing to do on the east coast of the states. I'm home for my first summer off from college, (usually work for the college), and have followed my jeeper buddies up a mountain behind the house, where we go 4-wheelin. (I used to follow them up to where the gravel road stopped and the "trail" began) Well, we had a great time ontop of the mountain that night, drove back out and I got back in my beloved MX3. We head back down the mountain, me following a decent distance behind because of the dust trail from the dry gravel. Well, I come around a very slight left hand bend and a deer jumps up the bank at me. I hit it and it sends my car into a gentle drift, (I"m going about 25mph upon impact), towards the side of the road where there is no guardrail and the mountain drops off steeply, for a good distance. I quickly counter it and start sliding the opposite direction. I almost have it back under control when the bank pops up outta nowhere, down, whack and I'm in the air. I went down in the ditch on the bank-side, smacked the only rock there was with my passenger front corner, it caught me, flipped me over and spun me half way around! That was a heck of a ride in an MX3!! I set there for a few seconds and realized what had happened, (windshield shattered, roof caved, no side glass). I popped my belts, fell a little bit, jammed the door open and drug myself out, lights still on, stereo still thumpin. A few minutes later a big loud pickup comes up. a bunch of good ole' boys were having a bachelors party down the mountain and saw me wreck. They looked at me, loocked at my car and said, "I bet we can flip it back over!". I was like, Ok?! About 5 of them got together on one side and heaved on it, BAM, it was back upright. Then they kicked the windshield out, threw my flat spare tire on her and 3 of em piled in with me to make sure I got it home safe, stereo cranked, no glass, crushed roof and a flat spare tire,
We got to the bottom of the mountain and it turned to asphalt, the flat spare disentigrated immediatly and I was running rim to pavement, . And there was a stopsign, that I of course stopped for. (that was fun trying to get going again!) So I drove it home and parked it in front of my yard. She's still parked there, I didn't turn it in on my insurance because I have good rates and I didn't want to screw myself out of being able to drive somthing decent. I worked the rest of the summer, cashed some stock, sold some parts and other stuff and found myself my dream MX3, (in stock form anyways), an SE, (which comes stock with all the options, I wanted v6, leather and it was an auto-physical reasons), for a price I could handle. So once again, after not having a car for a few months, I was back in an MX3, and one with what I wanted and in much better shape (the one that flipped was burning oil like a mo-fo) Oh, and the best part is all I got was a scrape on my elbow,about an inch long, no blood even! What amazed me about that wreck was there was NO frame damage. Just a popped strut and 7k in bodywork. And that is a long winded account for my two bad wrecks (sorry for the length, if anybody made it this far!)peace,
~I am attaching two pics. the first is the one that got rearended, it doesn't look that bad, but that's because it's pretty dark..
