Tappity-tap
Jan. 29th, 2009 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nockergeekThis morning, I got tapped by an SUV on my way in.
I was on one of the busier stretches of my drive (I-435 between Wornall and State Line, for the locals), and traffic suddenly shifted from moving smoothly to stop-and-go. The red sports car in front of me suddenly decided that stopping was the order of the day and slammed on their brakes. I followed suit, hoping to avoid a crash, which I did... with them. The SUV behind me also slammed on their brakes, but not quite fast enough. I saw them rapidly draw close in the rearview mirror, and then heard (more than felt) a "THUMP". We pulled over through two lanes of traffic, threw on our hazard lights, and got out to inspect the damage.
Apparently, our two vehicles were moving at such speeds in proportion to one another that the "collision" was more of a "love tap". No denting, no cracking, no bending of any parts visible, either on my car or theirs. The only sign that there had been any impact at all was a brand new clean spot amongst the dirt and schmutz that's accumulated on the car over the last couple of snows, with a tiny scratch in the paint where his license plate frame lightly kissed my bumper. No harm, no foul, no point in reporting that since it'd be well under the deductible. Since all was well, we mutually decided to just move along. The rest of the drive (minus some heavy traffic further along) was uneventful.
So, yeah, very, very thankful that I got rear-ended by an SUV and have nothing to show for it. Easily the most exciting non-event I've had in a while.
I was on one of the busier stretches of my drive (I-435 between Wornall and State Line, for the locals), and traffic suddenly shifted from moving smoothly to stop-and-go. The red sports car in front of me suddenly decided that stopping was the order of the day and slammed on their brakes. I followed suit, hoping to avoid a crash, which I did... with them. The SUV behind me also slammed on their brakes, but not quite fast enough. I saw them rapidly draw close in the rearview mirror, and then heard (more than felt) a "THUMP". We pulled over through two lanes of traffic, threw on our hazard lights, and got out to inspect the damage.
Apparently, our two vehicles were moving at such speeds in proportion to one another that the "collision" was more of a "love tap". No denting, no cracking, no bending of any parts visible, either on my car or theirs. The only sign that there had been any impact at all was a brand new clean spot amongst the dirt and schmutz that's accumulated on the car over the last couple of snows, with a tiny scratch in the paint where his license plate frame lightly kissed my bumper. No harm, no foul, no point in reporting that since it'd be well under the deductible. Since all was well, we mutually decided to just move along. The rest of the drive (minus some heavy traffic further along) was uneventful.
So, yeah, very, very thankful that I got rear-ended by an SUV and have nothing to show for it. Easily the most exciting non-event I've had in a while.
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on 2009-01-30 12:52 pm (UTC)This week we had a pretty good icestorm, and every vehicle I saw french-kissing the highway medians were SUVs, no exceptions.
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on 2009-01-30 02:23 pm (UTC)