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

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Is MN a no-fault state?

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

$9400? You beat my record!

Then again mine was in 2003 dollars.

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

Wow. This whole thing just hurts. I'm sorry.

[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.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry.