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briang0901 03-06-2013 06:51 PM

Wrecked 19 days ago, car finally back home!
 
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So here's the story, as I was driving back home one night from a restaurant a guy made a U-Turn into traffic(my lane) who then subsequently slammed on his brakes for NO reason. Since I had very little reaction time and didn't have enough time to stop, I rear-ended him causing over 9k in damages(This was at speeds less than roughly 15mph at time of impact). Luckily the guy I hit took fault for the wreck immediately since it was caused by his negligence. This made the process of dealing with insurance pretty easy. My car was in the shop until today when I finally was able to pick her up. Here are the pics of my now 4 month old wrecked car... advice for people the car is designed to crush fairly easy so even at a very slow speeds you can cause lots of expensive damage. Be careful out there!

Giccin 03-06-2013 07:04 PM

People are stupid...

Glad you got your car back. I hope you don't hear any squeeks.

husker741 03-06-2013 07:14 PM

That was stupid of him, but you got lucky that he took the blame. I would say 9 out of 10 guys wouldn't do that without trying to fight it. Congrats on getting it back!

Huehuecoyotl 03-06-2013 07:17 PM

what damage?

congrats!

briang0901 03-06-2013 07:50 PM

Ya the guy was older... so far the car looks and drives good, I got lifetime warranty on all the work done and for the paint work so if there is any issues I'm covered.

SneakyPete 03-08-2013 11:05 AM

Glad you got your car back. It looks like there were two lanes; if he did a U-turn and was in one of the lanes, why wouldn't you move over to the other lane?

briang0901 03-08-2013 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SneakyPete (Post 780353)
Glad you got your car back. It looks like there were two lanes; if he did a U-turn and was in one of the lanes, why wouldn't you move over to the other lane?

I was in the right lane, there was a person in the left lane, if I had merged left I would've side swiped that person.

SneakyPete 03-08-2013 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by briang0901 (Post 780508)
I was in the right lane, there was a person in the left lane, if I had merged left I would've side swiped that person.

Ah okay. Didn't know there was someone in the other lane.

briang0901 03-08-2013 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by SneakyPete (Post 780779)
Ah okay. Didn't know there was someone in the other lane.

no problem

jimmillion 03-08-2013 10:23 PM

glad you got finally got the car back. alls well that ends well.

Ahernandez0909 03-08-2013 10:55 PM

My cars in the shop too from Atlanta driver stupidity.., gosh it's been 7 days and I'm dying! How's you do it?!

briang0901 03-09-2013 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Ahernandez0909 (Post 781842)
My cars in the shop too from Atlanta driver stupidity.., gosh it's been 7 days and I'm dying! How's you do it?!

What happened to your car? Bro I literally thought about my car everyday whilst driving the Jeep Liberty Rental they gave me. It sucks man!

niceguy21 03-23-2013 09:58 PM

That's great to hear that your back and running, read your post a while ago and now I get nervous every time someone is pulling up quickly every time they go behind me.

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bestwheelbase 03-23-2013 10:02 PM

Glad you are back on the road!


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