pictures to come .. but while stopped at a traffic light on haighway 9, some D/A driver plows into to car behind me and shoves me into truck in front of me. my daughter was with me and is ok, me? very stiff this morning. i'm still recovering from a much worse accident three years ago. so off to the attornee.

Ouch! Sorry to hear that. Glad to hear you walked away from it.

QUOTE (lagunero @ Dec 8 2005, 09:20 AM)

Ouch! Sorry to hear that. Glad to hear you walked away from it.

werd.....

hope you get just compensation

Troy, PM me your cell number, I can't find it. Tried to call you the other night.

Hope your okay there buddy. Gald your daughter is doing alright. I hate getting rear ended. I know it happens, but the whole situation just plain sucks!

Glad you and your daughter are okay...

thanx guys. pm sent dan.

Troy happy to read everyone is doing fine.
What car were you driving?
CCLINRE

very lucky no one was sent to the e-room. the car that was struck first is a mini van, it was hit so hard the dodge dakota that hit pushed the back bumper into the third row seat, the third row seat was pushed into the second row seat! there were child seats in the mini van but the woman that was the driver was alone! so lucky or/and angles were beside her. her van [that stopped behind me about 6 to 8 feet away] pushed into to my truck and bent the bumper and class five trailer hitch with the weight distributing hitch installed [see pictures] and then pushed my fully stopped 7,200 lb truck eight to ten feet into the truck in front of me. my seat back bent under the impact back about 35% to 40% and twisted clockwise about 5%.

thank you

Craig. no it wasn't the teener. this stuff really makes me wounder if its worth enjoying this great little car with the risk of greater injury and complete loss of the car if in some accident.
how many teeners have been totaled in the past six months here? just a shame. i wpould hate to feel that the only time i could take it out would be for parades and shows. not enjoy this car the way it was ment to be.

I see visions of a 2006 Jeep SRT8.
CCLINIHAVEAV8

i'd take your car hauler/ motor home

QUOTE (messix @ Dec 8 2005, 11:21 AM)

how many teeners have been totaled in the past six months here?

914s were never big cars. Today's SUV mentality makes them that much smaller and less visible. Driving mine back from St. Louis to Chicago after I bought it, I remember glancing over at a 4x4 that was passing me. The top of his wheel well was right about level with my eyes.

Skip

9 and what troy? getchel, frontier village, clearview,...?

k

When on the road in the teener, I go out with the same mind-set that I did when I was riding motorcycles... That everyone is deliberately trying to kill me. If I couldn't strap on the helmet with that in mind, I didn't take the bike. For me, the same thing applies to the teener. If I can't get in the car and realise that I'm on the deffensive from the moment I get on the street, I don't drive it. And for me, the best defense is a good offense. Just like on the track, anticipate, and predict, avoid situations where you have to react instead. Hell, sometimes I think bikes are more visible than the teener...

-Josh2

south bound from snohomish at marsh road [seattle hill rd/ south end of harvey field the ariport] we went though that intercection on the road run.

frount doesn't look to bad.

another

back bumper

hitch

at the frame

i wish i had my camera last night to show what the van looked like. makes me really consider what a safe car is. the mini van was one of those smaller vans with the regular back doors instead of the sliding doors. but what can you do when some one slams into you at 50 mph!

You make a good piont, it is always a little freaky driving something around that sits so low when every other cell phone talking, child yelling driver has a 6000lb SUV going 60mph. That is one deadly weapon!

Looks like your truck faired okay considering.

I agree with Josh. Drive offensively. I have always owned and driven small cars. Don't like big cars or trucks. They don't handle, stop, or go. My 914 usually put me eye level with the rocker panel on most suburbans and my Civic's roof is level with the top of the bed on a Ford F150. So its all about driving ahead of and around everyone else on the road. I have never had an accident involving another car (plenty of times I have paid myself for overdriving road conditions).

Glad to hear you are OK. Even more glad it wasn't a teener. Can't be killin' off anymore of those.

Really glad to hear that you and your daughter are ok. Thank goodness your truck wasnt a Ford! Some of those newer ones have BAD crash ratings. It does make me wonder what my teener would have looked like if my wreck was in the middle of an intersection and the other driver in an Escape had been doin even 35. Scary.

Troy,

Glad you and your daughter are O.K.

I bet you are glad you were in the truck ...

Eddie

Glad you are all OK.

And weren't driving your 914! Phew!

Glad to hear that you and your daughter are OK.

Everyone play it safe this time a year as everyone has their head up their ass driving with the holidays. I have witnessed accidents every day this week and I’m sure that things are going to get worse as we get closer to that last shopping day. DH

Hi Troy....

Glad to hear you and your daughter are okay I am glad you were not in your 914 as both of you would probably be in the hospital. I attached a photo I took on the trip you lead last summer Just glad the two of you are okay. Eddy

thanx Ed, i saved that picture from the orig. post. it is priceless to me.

thank you ever one. my accident was very minor compared to what others have endured this almost one year that have known this great community. you people are a just like a family, you fight and bicker, but when needed or called you are united.

dont mess with the teeners!