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2fear

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So I was on my way home from work today when 3 cars in front of me stop to make a left turn, as I'm stopping I do a rear view mirror check to see the lady in back of me looking down. You guessed it, she slams into me at 30 MPH! No one was hurt, but her new Envoy didn't fair so well with my Dodge Ram trailer hitch, she was towed away on a flat bed wrecker I drove home. Oh well schitt happens, I'm just thankful I wasn't on my motorcycle and so glad I dumped Progressive last year.
 
Glad your OK Chuck and that she didn't push you into the cars in front of ya. :clapping: Hope she got a ticket for not having her vehicle under control !!
 
I hate it when that happens. I was sitting at a light with a 18 wheeler fully load to 80,000 in Roanoke Va. When I hear this horn from behind me somewhere but do not see anything. It was close to 4 pm in the spring, nice clear day. As I looking in my mirrors I see steam and then something running out on to the street. I set my brakes and four way flashers, get out and walk back and see a car under my trailer. The car was just inches from the front windshield, the hood was mashed down to the engine. The DOT bumper bar was sitting on the hood, the car was wedged under it. I called 911 ask for police, fire and EMS. The lady that was driven was stuck inside the car door where jamed and her hands broken from air bag. Well she tells the police officer that I just stopped without any warning and did not have time to stop (which the officer knew was a lie) other people that where following her seen that I was at a red light with brakes lights on. But the fire dept. opened her car up like a tin can with the JAWS of Life, tearing it up more. And gets to go to the hospital for the broken hands. Well after she was out the police ask me if I could get my rig off her car, I told him I could try. So I start to pull forward and hear the officer telling to stop when the tire's on the car blow out, as the car was getting dragged. I ask him, what did he want me to do? The DOT bar was wedged between the fire wall and the engine, lol and was not going to come out easy. Ended up the a semi wrecker was called to lift my trailer up while another wrecker pulled her car out. By this time the woman's husband is there to pay for the tow company to remove the car and haul it away. The officer hands him a hand full of tickets, speeding, failure to control the vehicle, no insurance, out of date inspection, reckless driving and something else. The officer tells me I have to show in court to get damages to the rear of the trailer to be court order payment. He asked me if I even knew she was under my trailer and I told him if not for her horn going off I would have never knew she was there till I took off and dragged her down the street. Glad I did not could have started a fire. Well We had the DOT bar fixed and the bill was a few hundred buxs. I go to court and she was so pissed when the judge took her lic. and order her pay for the damages on my trailer.
 
Really glad you're ok and fared better than the poor driver thanks to your hitch! I've always kept one on my Crown Vic too - those things are indestructible..
 
2fear just glad you was not hurt and your pick up took the hit with no visable damage. And very glad you was in your truck not your bike. I hate the effer's that stop short behind you when on a bike then creep up closer to you.
 
Wow, glad that you weren't on the VMax and that you are OK, as everyone else has said.

They could have either let the air out of her tires or removed the wheels, maybe that would have dropped the car far-enough to free the car.

"PDWeyand" has some good stories to tell. I'm glad he has time to tell them.

I had a similar episode to yours and Kyle's. I wrote about it before, similar story, inattentive female in a Taurus ran into the back of me in my month-&-a-1/2 old GMC pickup w/a 2" receiver hitch, which just gutted the front of her car like she ran dead-center into a telephone pole, all the way back to the engine. I was able to pull forward and remove her car from my bumper. She was a Jamaican teenager probably talking on her cellphone, she told me she was but wouldn't repeat it to the FL Highway Patrolman who wrote the accident, as it happened on the FL Turnpike. We exchanged insurance info, and when I called her co., they said, "we don't have anyone by that name, that isn't even one of our number/letter policy sequences!" At that point I just turned it over to my insurance co and they took care of it. People like that are why our rates are so-high.

Several months later, another female driver hit me while we were both stopped for a light. It was my same GMC truck. All of a sudden, she rammed me, her excuse to the investigating officer was that "she was applying make-up!" :damn angry:
 
2fear just glad you was not hurt and your pick up took the hit with no visable damage. And very glad you was in your truck not your bike. I hate the effer's that stop short behind you when on a bike then creep up closer to you.
Oh my truck has visual damage, The bumper is destroyed and my factory hitch is bent as well. I also have some minor damage to the the tail gate, the hitch saved the rear of the truck from side box damage I'm sure, just hoping the frame is still straight. I take it in Wednesday for inspection and All State is taking care of me with 0 out of pocket to me.
 
Same here,I didn[t want to open rhis thinking the worst, I'm glad your ok and weren't on your Max. 30 mph from behind is really bad. But on 2 wheels?
Steve-o
 
Thank God that you were in your truck!!!! I got rear ended a few years ago by a P/U and we were in our 96 Tahoe. The truck skidded into us and our bumper did major damage to the front of the truck. We drove home. In 1995, my wife got rear ended by a drunk on the freeway. Traffic was slowed for construction. This SOB skidded over 60 ft. ( measured by the CHP) and drove our Isuzu Trooper into a motor home. Just about totaled it. But my wife was un hurt. Thus the Tahoe next year.
Glad you are OK.
Lew
 
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Whew! Glad to read that you were in your truck and not in your bike. I switched to State Farm last year and with the service I'm getting from my agent I'm so much happier than with my old insurance companies lack of service.
 
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