My car is totalled. 
I was driving to work, and approaching an intersection which had just turned green. Just as I was reaching the intersection, one of the cars stopped to pick someone up (at least that's what I'm told, I couldn't see it) and the other 3 or 4 cars had to stop, including the pickup in front of me, which stopped in the middle of the intersection. I didn't see this, and wasn't able to stop in time.
Air bags deployed (damn, that smell is horrible), I had to push the door open, the front end had been pushed back far enough so the fender was pushed into the door. The front end was pretty ripped up on the driver's side. headlight and grill destroyed. The interior was damaged too, some of the dashboard trim was thrown off with the airbag.
Aside from a scrape/burn on my arm from the airbag, I'm ok. The guy I hit was ok too, and his truck didn't seem to suffer any noticable damage (I miss when cars all had steel bumpers).
Now I gotta wait for the insurance to tell me what they're gonna give me for my car. I'm sure it won't be enough to compensate me what that car was worth to me. It ran well, although it had 120,000 miles on it. Plus, I'm mad that Ford has, this year, taken away both of the cars that I would want. The Grand Marquis I was thinking of buying is no longer available with the handling/performance package like I had on my Crown Victoria, and although the Crown Victoria is available with the package, it's only available to fleets, so I may not be able to buy it even though they make what I want.
On the bright side, I may have found a car already. Stopping by the local Mercury dealership to get a brochure, the salesman told me he had something on the lot I might like. It's a beautiful 2003 Mercury Marauder. (If you're not aware what that is, it's your grandmother's Grand Marquis, only made into a menacing machine)
I was driving to work, and approaching an intersection which had just turned green. Just as I was reaching the intersection, one of the cars stopped to pick someone up (at least that's what I'm told, I couldn't see it) and the other 3 or 4 cars had to stop, including the pickup in front of me, which stopped in the middle of the intersection. I didn't see this, and wasn't able to stop in time.
Air bags deployed (damn, that smell is horrible), I had to push the door open, the front end had been pushed back far enough so the fender was pushed into the door. The front end was pretty ripped up on the driver's side. headlight and grill destroyed. The interior was damaged too, some of the dashboard trim was thrown off with the airbag.
Aside from a scrape/burn on my arm from the airbag, I'm ok. The guy I hit was ok too, and his truck didn't seem to suffer any noticable damage (I miss when cars all had steel bumpers).
Now I gotta wait for the insurance to tell me what they're gonna give me for my car. I'm sure it won't be enough to compensate me what that car was worth to me. It ran well, although it had 120,000 miles on it. Plus, I'm mad that Ford has, this year, taken away both of the cars that I would want. The Grand Marquis I was thinking of buying is no longer available with the handling/performance package like I had on my Crown Victoria, and although the Crown Victoria is available with the package, it's only available to fleets, so I may not be able to buy it even though they make what I want.
On the bright side, I may have found a car already. Stopping by the local Mercury dealership to get a brochure, the salesman told me he had something on the lot I might like. It's a beautiful 2003 Mercury Marauder. (If you're not aware what that is, it's your grandmother's Grand Marquis, only made into a menacing machine)
I'll just have to decide if I want to buy a used car (I was so looking forward to finally buying my first new car in the spring, I don't know if I can afford what I had wanted to get just yet, though). It looks great, and it sounds awesome. I'll have to wait until the insurance company gets back to me.
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I see your journal about your car accident is several months old, I hope things have worked out alright with that.
The chemicals in those airbags are horrible