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It just doesn't stop! I'm back, your favorite TPF whiner :cry:
I've been away from the keyboard for a couple of days because I was too sore to surf. Saturday evening was "supposed" to be the first photo outing with people from the new club/forum that I started and I decided the wife and I should run out quick to get a couple of blue filters so we could shoot some film in addition to the digital that night. Well, we made it about half way there when the traffic was backed up leading to the off ramp-merging lane for the interchange freeway we needed to take. It was stop and go for about 2-3minutes before some 20 something woman on a cell phone rear ended us at about 50mph in a Ford Explorer. Needless to say if these were cars they would have folded up like pancakes but because they were both trucks (and the frame mounted bumpers are the same height) there was nothing to "easily" crumple and dissapate the force of the impact except our spines! We are both basically OK, just some good whiplash and REALLY sore even still today. The EMT's did take my wife to the hospital (where we spent 6hours in the ER) for precautionary checks and tests to make sure her and baby-to-be were OK (which they are :hail: ).
In the end the truck does still move but will be a total loss. Doesn't matter a ton since we had picked this up cheap as a temporary beater until spring. The pics are deceiving though. It doesn't really look that bad (so much that the police and fire dept. reported the damage as minimal :crazy: ) closer inspection has revealed a kinked and twisted frame (almost 2 inches in the rear, note the crooked seat due to the floor buckling upwards) which in turn pushed all the doors together on the left side and buckled the roof and main beam supports and the whole rear is pushed over about 1.5-2" and the axle is also now crooked making it track sideways. Shattered the window (obviously :blushing: ) and many multiple other things I keep finding.
We still have not been able to find out if she is/was insured as we do not yet have the police report.
Sorry for the novel :blushing:
I'll fill in more of the holes later when it all comes back to me! :meh:
Doesn't look like 50mph does it? There is definately something to be said for modern vehicle construction and crumple zones. If we had been driving my car we would not be so sore today, however that car would have never moved on it's own again because the entire rear end would have been pushed into the back seat :shock:
I've been away from the keyboard for a couple of days because I was too sore to surf. Saturday evening was "supposed" to be the first photo outing with people from the new club/forum that I started and I decided the wife and I should run out quick to get a couple of blue filters so we could shoot some film in addition to the digital that night. Well, we made it about half way there when the traffic was backed up leading to the off ramp-merging lane for the interchange freeway we needed to take. It was stop and go for about 2-3minutes before some 20 something woman on a cell phone rear ended us at about 50mph in a Ford Explorer. Needless to say if these were cars they would have folded up like pancakes but because they were both trucks (and the frame mounted bumpers are the same height) there was nothing to "easily" crumple and dissapate the force of the impact except our spines! We are both basically OK, just some good whiplash and REALLY sore even still today. The EMT's did take my wife to the hospital (where we spent 6hours in the ER) for precautionary checks and tests to make sure her and baby-to-be were OK (which they are :hail: ).
In the end the truck does still move but will be a total loss. Doesn't matter a ton since we had picked this up cheap as a temporary beater until spring. The pics are deceiving though. It doesn't really look that bad (so much that the police and fire dept. reported the damage as minimal :crazy: ) closer inspection has revealed a kinked and twisted frame (almost 2 inches in the rear, note the crooked seat due to the floor buckling upwards) which in turn pushed all the doors together on the left side and buckled the roof and main beam supports and the whole rear is pushed over about 1.5-2" and the axle is also now crooked making it track sideways. Shattered the window (obviously :blushing: ) and many multiple other things I keep finding.
We still have not been able to find out if she is/was insured as we do not yet have the police report.
Sorry for the novel :blushing:
I'll fill in more of the holes later when it all comes back to me! :meh:
Doesn't look like 50mph does it? There is definately something to be said for modern vehicle construction and crumple zones. If we had been driving my car we would not be so sore today, however that car would have never moved on it's own again because the entire rear end would have been pushed into the back seat :shock: