.....Ow?

[Nightrage]

Well, today it finally happened. My dad picked me up in the Viper and turned left onto a main road. He gets on it a little and goes to get into the left to go around someone making a turn in the right hand lane. It just so happens that in the left hand lane, there was a BMW to make a left.............SCREEETTTCCCHH!!! My dad jammed on his brakes but since the Viper doesn't have anti lock brakes, the wheels locked up and we slammed the bejesus out of the poor guy in the BMW. The airbags went off and mine popped me in my face and gave me a bloody nose...meh. "Tom, you alright!?" "Yeah dad, i'm fine, are you ok!?" "Yeah". We both busted the doors open and charged over to the BMW to see if the driver was ok. He was on his cell phone and just shooed us away. That was the first time it ever felt good to be shooed away as it showed he was probably unscathed. When we got back to his car, the first thing i asked was- "So um dad? How F'd up am i?" I figured maybe my nose was broken as it was bleeding but nothing else was wrong. We had just wrecked the Viper but everyone was ok so it didn't even matter for the time being. Some really nice volunteer firefighters jumped out and checked on us. We were ok until some lady cop with a bad attitude showed up. She goes "YOU MUSTA BEEN DOIN 90, THERE ARE OVER 100 FEET OF SKIDMARKS!!!". There's no way we were doing anything that even resembled 90. Then they were trying to push his car out of the way so i walked over and asked them if it was in gear since as we all know, that would prevent it from moving. She was behind the wheel and her response was "PFHHH, NO!!". Whoa, sorry for trying to help you. Everyone else was surprisingly nice. We had tons of people watching. I was like we posted a sign that said "Free money this way" with an arrow pointing to us. Luckily, my fathers girlfriends dad owns a body shop so he's gonna fix it. We were both wearing our seatbelts which probably prevented anything really bad from happening to us. I had to drive my dads van to meet him at the body shop as he went with the flat bed guy so i guess i didn't develope a fear of driving. My dad drove me home so i guess he's not afraid to drive either. I really hope the other guy is doing as well physically and mentally as we are Somehow, the rear view mirror got hit by something but i don't remember my head hitting it and neither does my pops. Oh well. My dad's rear brakes were starting to go so that might have been part of the reason we didn't stop fast enough. We weren't even going all that fast which is odd. Anyhow, drive safe guys, there's too much at risk to go getting into car accidents.

[BadWS6]

thats sad glad yall are ok

[alenstein]

I feel for you .. it mustve been a head on hit since the bags popped.
women what do they know!on average it takes 170-180 feet to stop from 60mph

[Nightrage]

We actually rear ended the poor guy. Hopefully i'll be able to get some pictures of it so i can show you guys. It didn't feel good. Felt like hittin a brick wall.

[Performin Norman]

Sorry. Glad you guys are okay. Like I tell my customers..."We can fix or replace cars, but it is hard to fix a person".

[NorthernSS]

Sorry. Glad you guys are okay. Like I tell my customers..."We can fix or replace cars, but it is hard to fix a person".

My pops said the same kind of thing when I got into a fender bender in his Durango. As long as everyone is ok, everything else can be taken care of. Good to see everyone is alright.

[95z28]

its true tho all that matters is that you guys are ok. its good to know you could drive ok after it, when i got in an accident with the z, the next day i was driving to work im goin thru a green light at like 45 dude goes for the right on red when i was already in the intersection - totaled dads winter car. and he put all the blame on me good thing its the insurance company that decides that. idk mabe i shouldnt have driven that soon after. sory for being a lil off topic but it was what came to mind when i read that.

[wolfdogs]

glad you guys are ok....

sounds like there might be another lesson to be learned here too, eh?

thanks for wearing seat belts. my son would be alive today had he had his on.

this comming sunday would have been his 28th birhday.

[Nightrage]

I'm real sorry wolfman. I can't even pretend to know how bad that felt. That must have been the worst experience of your entire life. I have to work on my brother. If no tickets or accidents is clean than my brother is the aftermath of a nuclear war. 95z28- That's some real bad luck my friend. One accident after the other. Don't worry about going off topic, i don't think anyone really cares here. I'm never ON topic and nobody ever complains to me Drive safe guys!

[hotwhip9]

Glad to hear everyone is ok. I've gotten in two major wrecks, one totalled f-body and a almost totalled monte carlo.

[Nightrage]

Well, my dad just told me it's been labeled a total I think there was some mechanical damage to the car. He's not exactly rich, he saved every penny he had for a few years to buy that car and he paid for it in cash so he kinda went broke on it. They're offering him $42,000 for it. It was a 96 GTS, blue with white stripes and it had nearly 60,000 miles on it. I'm trying to talk him into something that will be a little more economically sound. I really wish that he'd just supercharge a WS6, change a few other things and upgrade the suspension to handle and perform like the viper did but he's thinking a worked 57 vette....ugh. He could get a 98+ WS6 for probably under $20,000 and make it equal to, if not better than the viper with the money he had left over. He doesn't want that or a vette though since it doesn't get nearly as much attention. People always commented on his car and stuff whenever we were stopped. Some people even yelled stuff out as we were driving. Nobody would comment as much about a vette since they're EVERYWHERE. Man, it still doesn't feel like it happened.

[DJ Taso]

The first thing I would of said if I was driving by the scene would be, "Oh man, poor Viper.. "

Glad you guys are ok.