another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

[LD]

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I just found out 5 minutes ago that the adjuster is going to total it.
I will post up details of what happened when I get home, im leaving work right now driving a 99 escort :\


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[flyfrito_SS]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

ANOTHER ONE! what the heck.

[00 Silver 6]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

im afraid to drive my car when i get home... ill get blindsided by a cement mixer or something insane like that, so many lost cars already this season

[Camaro Dom]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

oh i'm WAY due to get smashed... i just got new tires, fixed my exhaust hangers, detailed it, flushed the radiator fluid and am putting in new subs this weekend...

every time i do ANYTHING beneficial to a car i own i either get in an accident or have a near miss where i can thank only my alertness and good reactions. i swear its like final destination...

[Camaro Dom]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

btw... really sorry to hear that bro... hope you'll get some good cash for her and start afresh!

[BobDoLe]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

I just found out 5 minutes ago that the adjuster is going to total it.
I will post up details of what happened when I get home, im leaving work right now driving a 99 escort :\

congrats on the total.. get yourself into something with the almighty LS1 NOW

[LD]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

Ok here's the story
I was driving North bound on Van Dyke in the left lane (divided road with turnarounds) coming up onto a turnaround. There was a rendezvous to my right in the middle lane. There was also an older model Taurus in the middle lane in front of him.



Well suddenly the rendezvous decides he wants to make it into the turnaround and cuts in front of me. I narrowly missed him by slamming on my brakes and whipping around his right side.



What I was not aware of however was the Taurus was trying to follow him. I could not see around the SUV and did not know he was turning also. The bad thing was he was almost past his turn so he slams on his brakes and makes a 90 degree turn directly in front of me.



I ended up in the median with a wrecked car. The Taurus pulls across the street into a Comcast parking lot and the rendezvous stops behind me

[black98V6]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

damn dude, I would have been about ready to kill if that happened to me, you come across awefully calm in your posts.

[Mighty Thor]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

Sorry to hear that bro.

Sad were losing so many fbodies.

[LD]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

It turns out there were 3 car loads of African American gentlemen (at least 9 of them). They all got out of their car screaming and yelling at me. I was on the phone with 911 before I even opened my door. One guy was screaming at me and being held back by his buddy. I'm still not sure why they were angry with me. Well there were about 5 gentlemen standing across the street in the parking lot jumping around calling me names. I was kind of in a shock and didn’t realize they were yelling at me in a negative way. I thought they were asking if I called the police, so I politely informed them I was on the phone with 911 already. Well when I did that, they all jumped in the cars and began driving around the Comcast parking lot.

In the following image the black dots represent people around my car and the people across the street that were involved in the accident and were yelling at me


I guess at that time they decided it was a good time to run. They drove around the Comcast lot looking for a back exit (there isn’t one) then they pulled out onto the road with the Lumina close as possible to the Taurus so I can’t see his plate. I ran down the street trying to read their plate, but it’s a lot harder than I thought to catch a plate from a speeding vehicle.
I was on the phone with 911 telling them that the gentlemen were speeding away from the scene. I told them as much as I could about them and the car and where they were turning.

My buddy was with me in the car and flagged down a passerby and pointed at my car, then pointed at the fleeing Taurus. The nice gentleman and his wife proceeded to follow the Taurus with 911 on the cell phone telling them where the Taurus and Lumina were going. The response time by the Sterling Heights Police Dept was amazing. They were in the Meijer parking lot within a couple minutes. A police car pulled up behind me and had me sit with him in his car to write a statement. While I was writing my statement in his car, he got a phone call that the fleeing cars were all caught. He asked the witness that followed them which seat the driver jumped into and he told the arresting officer to arrest him for hit and run and "anything else you can find" lol.

Well on the way home a Sterling Heights police car passed me with 3 gentlemen in the backseat
I lol'd a little bit

Here are some pics of the car
Keep in mind these look a lot worse because the body shop and the insurance adjuster were pulling stuff apart to look for damage. But this still gives u an idea

[LD]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

damn dude, I would have been about ready to kill if that happened to me, you come across awefully calm in your posts.

This happened last Saturday
I am actually amazed that I am so calm also
I would have thought I would be screaming at someone
Really I just want it to be taken care of and move on
I did love my car though and have taken really good care of her, and it is quite disappointing that this happened, but in the end, it is just a car.

[4thgenowner]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

I would have chopped someones wig off!

[LD]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

Sorry to hear that bro.

Sad were losing so many fbodies.

It really is sad. The part that tore my heart out was seeing the bent hood and peeling off a silver dollar size piece of my paint.
5 years of waxing every few months and parking 500 miles away from other cars, freaking out when anything happened.
It all seems kind of pointless and depressing.

[Mike88]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

Sorry to hear about the accident. That doesn't seem like a lot of damage for the insurance company to decide to total the car. Maybe there's frame damage, but even at that it doesn't look that bad. Seems like an awful waste to me.

[HokieBird]

Re: another one bites the dust. RIP 02 SOM

Sorry to hear about your car.

It's weird about not flipping out when someone destroys your car. I was the same way when the guy hit me last summer.