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i broke my mini!
May. 16th, 2005 08:16 pmwell, after something like 15 years and a couple of hundred thousand miles (iirc), i've been involved in another car accident that was my fault. (i think it's been about a hundred thousand miles and 10 years since i was involved in an accident at all that i can recall).
this time, i was driving to work and coming around the offramp from the weston tollbooths on I-90W to 128S and at that hellacious merge i turned for a headcheck to see what traffic was coming up and turned back to realize that the car ahead of me (a big old lincon towncar) had come to a dead stop. so i stood on the brakes, but not quite enough and ended up hitting the guy at about 10-15mph. i think if the bumpers had been an equal height, there wouldn't have been much damage. instead, my mini attempted to emulate a u-boat and do an emergency dive under the towncar's bumper, caving in the hood somewhat
i'm unharmed, although i expect i'll be sore tomorrow. the mini is at the auto body shop waiting for a visit with the insurance adjustor on weds and subsequent fixing.
pics of the sad mini here
this time, i was driving to work and coming around the offramp from the weston tollbooths on I-90W to 128S and at that hellacious merge i turned for a headcheck to see what traffic was coming up and turned back to realize that the car ahead of me (a big old lincon towncar) had come to a dead stop. so i stood on the brakes, but not quite enough and ended up hitting the guy at about 10-15mph. i think if the bumpers had been an equal height, there wouldn't have been much damage. instead, my mini attempted to emulate a u-boat and do an emergency dive under the towncar's bumper, caving in the hood somewhat
i'm unharmed, although i expect i'll be sore tomorrow. the mini is at the auto body shop waiting for a visit with the insurance adjustor on weds and subsequent fixing.
pics of the sad mini here
