Another one bites the dust?

[Kilroy]

My first day at work on the day shift last Monday in over 2.5 years and I got rear-ended on the freeway on the way home. I hate rush hour traffic, which was a large part of my decision to work the afternoon shift in the first place (plus there are no foremen around on the afternoon shift).

 

A full size pickup in front of me suddenly veers towards an off-ramp at the last possible instant, I figure he must be daydreaming and just missed his ramp. Nope, he is actually trying to get onto the shoulder to avoid hitting the last of a line of cars in front of him that are waiting to merge into the next offramp at the clover-leaf ramps ahead. I pound my brakes as hard as I can and manage to stop about 2 feet before hitting the rear of the car that was in front of him. Now I have him to my right and a string of traffic in the lane to my left, with nowhere to go. So, I wonder if the car behind me will manage to stop in time? A quick glance in the rearview mirror and I see the young female driver of a black VW Golf with eyeballs as large as dinner plates and her jaw in her lap coming up on me fast....wayyy too fast. I look forward and brace myself, this is going to hurt. Her car hits me hard enough to send me into the new Hyundai rental in front of me and she leaves black paint on the underside of my spare tire wheel well. The traffic has started moving slowly, so that keeps the Hyundai from hitting the car in front of it.

 

It turns out the Hyundai is a rental because the driver was rear-ended in her own vehicle a few weeks previous, talk about bad luck. :-\

 

The damage to the Hyundai is pretty much just a scuff on the bumper, there is no visible damage other that that. It made a mess of my passenger front quarter though. I managed to drive the car home, it tracked fine and ran with no problems, but with the muffler partially broken off and the packing coming out it was crazy loud. My main concern is that the damage will cost enough that they will simply write off the car, although it is just a matter of bodywork to fix it all. I'll be putting a new muffler on it myself today and taking it in for estimates, so we'll see. By 9PM Monday my neck was getting really stiff and my back was aching as well, so off to the Medicenter (I love the Canadian medical system!) and a doctor's note for drugs and at least the week off of work.

 

Foremen breathing down my neck, getting up at 5AM and a collision to boot, what a crappy way to start the week.

 

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[Reveeen]

It's called following too close and not paying attention. You have the roads out there, you are just lacking the drivers, here, we lack both.

At least you are semi-ok, though, if played right, the cards you have been dealt could be turned into "cash for life".

 

I could tell you to get better soon, and mean it, but from someone who has been there, and wakes up each, and every morning, a "hurting unit", let me warn you: DO NOT SIGN OFF.

[Kilroy]

It's called following too close and not paying attention. You have the roads out there, you are just lacking the drivers, here, we lack both.

At least you are semi-ok, though, if played right, the cards you have been dealt could be turned into "cash for life".

 

I could tell you to get better soon, and mean it, but from someone who has been there, and wakes up each, and every morning, a "hurting unit", let me warn you: DO NOT SIGN OFF.

 

 

I could most definitely turn this into some cash, but my conscience may keep me from doing so. I definitely have a case of 'whiplash', but to what extent it is hard to tell at this time. I've had headaches ever since the accident, something that VERY rarely happens to me. I have been drinking plenty of water to rule out dehydration, yet the headaches persist.