Ryan,
Glad you are OK. It's nice to have an airbag too, in the modern cars.
Linda
Ryan Bird wrote:
>A week ago I was driving home from school in the evening, heading south on
>I-17 just a mile before the first I-10 exit. Traffic generally slows down at
>that point, and I came to a halt. Within moments of stopping, I felt / heard
>a large CRACK/BANG, I was knocked a bit silly, and before I could figure
>anything out, I had rear-ended the car in front of me and was idling slowly...
> After a few moments, I regained my wits and pulled off to the side of the
>road.
>
>This just happened to be the first time in five months that I had taken my '99
>Mitsubishi Galant to school instead of my 67 1600.... Wow!
>
>I had a pretty nasty case of the jitters, a few days of an extremely sore
>neck, and now my ribs are tender, but one the whole, everything turned out
>alright. A full size, extended van had rear-ended me. The police report
>claimed 15mph, but I swear it was more than that. The van had the radiator
>shoved up into the engine, while my Galant only had a few minor dents and the
>driver seat railing is a bit off. The car (truck) in front was not damaged at
>all. To add insult to injury, the van was uninsured. My insurance company
>extorts $500 from me before they will do anything about it, so as the damage
>was minimal, I just dropped to liability insurance on the Mitsu and will be
>receiving a check from them anyway! (Renewed for 6 mo just 2 weeks ago.)
>
>What I got from my first accident? My head-rests were not extended to match
>my 6' body, thus I got more whip-lash than I would have should they have been
>properly adjusted. I was wearing my seat belt, or things could have been much
>worse... Time to install the lap-belt in my roadster I guess. I also quickly
>understood how important the seats are in an accident, while it has been
>stressed in the past, those four bolts holding your seats in your cars had
>better be secured nicely, I'm thinking about doing "one-up" on that large
>washer, as adding the 200lbs of a securely strapped human with all sorts of G
>forces going at them is something that I am not that comfortable with right
>now. Head rests??? Don't want to think about that one right now. :(
>
>Anyway, it has been an interesting week. The good news is damage to myself
>was all minor, damage to the Mitsu was minimal, and I consider myself
>incredibly blessed to have been in the other car that day.
>
>Ryan Bird
>Tempe, AZ 67 1600
>www.azroc.org/ryan
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