Car

[bertine]

$9400 of damage.

It turns out I was hitting the brakes when I hit her which is nice to know. They can tell because if I hadn't hit my brakes the nose wouldn't have gone down and I would have hit her with my bumper and there would have been different damage. Funny that they can tell that. Even funnier that I honestly can't remember much other than looking over my shoulder to see if someone was in my blind spot, looking up to see a car stopped, hearing a lot of crashing noise and yelling "FUCK" when the airbag went off.

Anyways, the accident didn't touch the frame which I had a feeling that it didn't when I drove it off the freeway because if I hadn't been driving with a deployed airbag I wouldn't have known my car had been in an accident. Now I am waiting to hear from the shop to see what the next step is. I am pretty sure it is waiting for them to repair it for the next month, paying them $750 dollars and then seeing my insurance rates go up. Oh well.

Comments

[patrickwonders.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'd have thought the car computer would cache the state of everything when the airbag deploys: were brakes engaged? were headlights on? was windshield wet? current gear and rpms? etc.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Actually, I got off the phone with the bodyshop and it turns out that they knew it because of the computer and not just because of the damage. I wondered about that. It is pretty cool the info my car knows. Also, the airbag is smart so it goes off because of lots of different reasons and not just speed.

[lisianthia.livejournal.com]

Sometimes massage therapists can tell what direction you were looking in when the accident occurred based on the location and type of muscle injury.