Didn't See THAT Coming..
02-16-2010, 04:51 PM
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Didn't See THAT Coming..Updates
UPDATED PICS ON PAGES: 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 17 (<-- finished car!)
Last Friday, February 12 (well, 15 minutes into Saturday morning), I was sitting at a red light waiting to turn left onto a main road, when out of nowhere came a white VW bug. It attempted a right turn onto the street I was turning out of, and the driver was so drunk that she kept driving straight over the median and smashed into my car. This took me by complete surprise, and I had absolutely no time to react to the on coming vehicle. Luckily there were no serious injuries, and I get to have my car taken care of by Pascal, yes!
Moral of the story is:
a) You can never be too careful, even at a red light.
b) Don't drive drunk (see below)
In the picture below, I drew up what happened based on the aerial view of the intersection I found on google maps. Mind you this took place at night, so the traffic in the picture has nothing to do with my actual scenario.
She is represented by the yellow arrows (the green being the intended path, the yellow being her actual path).
I (represented by red arrow) was stopped that the light waiting to turn left.
Last Friday, February 12 (well, 15 minutes into Saturday morning), I was sitting at a red light waiting to turn left onto a main road, when out of nowhere came a white VW bug. It attempted a right turn onto the street I was turning out of, and the driver was so drunk that she kept driving straight over the median and smashed into my car. This took me by complete surprise, and I had absolutely no time to react to the on coming vehicle. Luckily there were no serious injuries, and I get to have my car taken care of by Pascal, yes!
Moral of the story is:
a) You can never be too careful, even at a red light.
b) Don't drive drunk (see below)
In the picture below, I drew up what happened based on the aerial view of the intersection I found on google maps. Mind you this took place at night, so the traffic in the picture has nothing to do with my actual scenario.
She is represented by the yellow arrows (the green being the intended path, the yellow being her actual path).
I (represented by red arrow) was stopped that the light waiting to turn left.
Last edited by Fred Malibu; 04-11-2010 at 01:26 AM. Reason: progress pics
02-16-2010, 05:30 PM
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02-16-2010, 05:49 PM
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Fred, I didn't know you were gonna post here but it's all good, I'll keep feeding pics to the thread anyway...
02-16-2010, 06:08 PM
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