Hens and Roos
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wow...that stinks about your car, glad you weren't seriously injured!
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promiseacres
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Glad you're ok.
Kid's are always so appreciative...
Kid's are always so appreciative...
CntryBoy777
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I'm feeling stiff and sore already for ya!!....sure hate about the car....hopefully the other driver had insurance, but it sure doesn't aid the situation with a totaled car....ya get a little $$ and still pay money to replace what ya had....sounds to me like ya need to get the daughter a Yugo and tell her she can have something else when she pays for it.....
Mike CHS
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I wonder if the other driver was texting? Sore beats the alternative and at least you are mobile coming out of this.
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Could've been so much worse - but I know that doesn't help much. Glad you weren't seriously injured.
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Bruce
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Actually DD bought the car used Sept 2017 and paid for all the repairs.
Nurse was right, more sore now than yesterday afternoon. Woke up several times with sharp neck pain even though I took the Flexeril when I went to bed. I have some leftover Tylenol 3 and am taking that during the day.
Yes the other driver has insurance, it is on the police accident report. No exchange at the accident, neither of us was in shape for that, the state trooper found us in the ER. I filed a claim with her insurance after I got home some time after noon. The lady I gave the info to didn't say the other party had filed anything yet. I am not surprised since she was taken to the bigger hospital after the MRI at the local hospital. I imagine her husband (listed as the owner of the car) was preoccupied with her condition. Have to wait until Monday for their adjuster to look at the car, can't get her insurance to approve a rental until they take responsibility after the incident is investigated.
Don't know if she was "distracted driving" or not. The police report isn't totally clear but her DOB suggests she is around 72, much less likely to be texting than a younger person. The trooper told me she didn't remember what happened, she might have had a medical incident just after she got on the bridge? I think that is possible since I didn't see any change in the car's heading while I was laying on the horn. Someone who was "just" distracted would likely have had time for at least a little correction.
If I am correct about the condition of the car (*), this will be the second Prius I have had that was totaled by someone else. The first was my 2004 bought new, it had 130K miles when I was rear-ended on an interstate onramp in Sept 2012. I was doing about 40 MPH at the time and I will bet the girl (mid 20s) WAS texting. How do you hit someone so hard at that speed on an onramp that you can mash in the back and bend the frame of a vehicle in front of you? I don't like the design of the 2010-2016 Prius so I replaced the '04 with a feature identical '09. 140K miles on it yesterday. Never in my 46 years of driving have I hit anyone.
So yeah, I'll get a few thousand dollars for a car that could easily last another 3+ years (DW's is an '06, also bought new, now with 207K miles) and have to come up with the rest of the replacement cost of whatever I buy. As you can see we keep our cars a long time (if no one destroys them) so I will likely buy a new car.
DD1 was rear ended while stopped at a red light last summer, her car was nearly totalled. DW's similarly nearly totalled a bit under 2 years ago while stopped at a stop sign. The "value" of totalled of course depends on how new the vehicle is and what it will cost to repair it. Similarly, DW was rear ended close to 20 years ago when she stopped at a changing light in bad weather and the guy behind her planned to run the light and assumed she was going to as well. Slammed her into the intersection, no insurance, license suspended. I have been rear ended at low speed while stopped twice in the past. I guess we are magnets. Fortunately this is the only time any of us have needed medical attention after a car accident.
* I never saw the front of it but they really had to crank the door for me to get out and I saw a lot of plastic parts on the ground. They were shoveling that into the back seat floor of my car to get it off the road after I was put in the ambulance.
Nurse was right, more sore now than yesterday afternoon. Woke up several times with sharp neck pain even though I took the Flexeril when I went to bed. I have some leftover Tylenol 3 and am taking that during the day.
Yes the other driver has insurance, it is on the police accident report. No exchange at the accident, neither of us was in shape for that, the state trooper found us in the ER. I filed a claim with her insurance after I got home some time after noon. The lady I gave the info to didn't say the other party had filed anything yet. I am not surprised since she was taken to the bigger hospital after the MRI at the local hospital. I imagine her husband (listed as the owner of the car) was preoccupied with her condition. Have to wait until Monday for their adjuster to look at the car, can't get her insurance to approve a rental until they take responsibility after the incident is investigated.
Don't know if she was "distracted driving" or not. The police report isn't totally clear but her DOB suggests she is around 72, much less likely to be texting than a younger person. The trooper told me she didn't remember what happened, she might have had a medical incident just after she got on the bridge? I think that is possible since I didn't see any change in the car's heading while I was laying on the horn. Someone who was "just" distracted would likely have had time for at least a little correction.
If I am correct about the condition of the car (*), this will be the second Prius I have had that was totaled by someone else. The first was my 2004 bought new, it had 130K miles when I was rear-ended on an interstate onramp in Sept 2012. I was doing about 40 MPH at the time and I will bet the girl (mid 20s) WAS texting. How do you hit someone so hard at that speed on an onramp that you can mash in the back and bend the frame of a vehicle in front of you? I don't like the design of the 2010-2016 Prius so I replaced the '04 with a feature identical '09. 140K miles on it yesterday. Never in my 46 years of driving have I hit anyone.
So yeah, I'll get a few thousand dollars for a car that could easily last another 3+ years (DW's is an '06, also bought new, now with 207K miles) and have to come up with the rest of the replacement cost of whatever I buy. As you can see we keep our cars a long time (if no one destroys them) so I will likely buy a new car.
DD1 was rear ended while stopped at a red light last summer, her car was nearly totalled. DW's similarly nearly totalled a bit under 2 years ago while stopped at a stop sign. The "value" of totalled of course depends on how new the vehicle is and what it will cost to repair it. Similarly, DW was rear ended close to 20 years ago when she stopped at a changing light in bad weather and the guy behind her planned to run the light and assumed she was going to as well. Slammed her into the intersection, no insurance, license suspended. I have been rear ended at low speed while stopped twice in the past. I guess we are magnets. Fortunately this is the only time any of us have needed medical attention after a car accident.
* I never saw the front of it but they really had to crank the door for me to get out and I saw a lot of plastic parts on the ground. They were shoveling that into the back seat floor of my car to get it off the road after I was put in the ambulance.
greybeard
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That happens nowadays even with the most minor of fender benders or accidents. Plastic everywhere.
Nothing new tho. The car in my avatar.....everything on it is 'plastic'.
Hope you get to feeling better.
B&B Happy goats
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Glad you are ok Bruce.....hate winter driving hope you feel better quickly
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Bruce
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It wasn't even winter driving! Roads were perfectly clear.
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Sorry to hear of your accident, and very glad that you were not seriously hurt. Just keep up on the pain situation, and make sure that if anything else even feels a little "hurt" you get it checked out. Please don't "sign off" on anything for awhile.
I got hit head on by someone that didn't even pay attention to oncoming traffic (me) when they made a turn across in front of me in '07 and although I swerved to miss them, they hit and totaled my little truck. I wound up with damage to my knee from hitting the brake control box in the truck, had to have orthoscopic surgery 6 months later, and have had knee problems ever since. After a year with the lawyer and ins. company, finally settled; as 3 different lawyer consultations, thinking mine wasn't getting me anywhere, all said that I would not be able to get much better of a deal than what I was getting due to the laws in Va., and the area I was located in. But if I had signed anything sooner, would have been alot worse off. It did pay all my medical, but I never could find another little truck that got the mileage that one did, and the money I actually got only helped to catch up bills that I had incured while unable to work. Like you it could have been worse; but it is a real PITA to have residual problems.
I got hit head on by someone that didn't even pay attention to oncoming traffic (me) when they made a turn across in front of me in '07 and although I swerved to miss them, they hit and totaled my little truck. I wound up with damage to my knee from hitting the brake control box in the truck, had to have orthoscopic surgery 6 months later, and have had knee problems ever since. After a year with the lawyer and ins. company, finally settled; as 3 different lawyer consultations, thinking mine wasn't getting me anywhere, all said that I would not be able to get much better of a deal than what I was getting due to the laws in Va., and the area I was located in. But if I had signed anything sooner, would have been alot worse off. It did pay all my medical, but I never could find another little truck that got the mileage that one did, and the money I actually got only helped to catch up bills that I had incured while unable to work. Like you it could have been worse; but it is a real PITA to have residual problems.
