This has NOT been a good weekend for me.
To update from other parts of the forums: On Thursday night, I was on my way to work (I work in a rural part of Wisconsin, at a corrections facility out in the middle of nowhere, on third shift) when I hit a deer on the county highway that leads out of town. I swerved to miss it, still managed to clip my driver's side (left side) mirror, and slid onto the shoulder. Because we have had an unusual cold snap here (it's sub-zero temps at the moment), the shoulder was pretty much solid ice - so the car went right into the ditch on the east side of the road. I was heading northbound at the time - and the car went flying over the frozen snow.
I actually thought I would be able to recover and get back on the highway, but momentum had finally caught up to my car, and the front got stuck in the deep snow. I had to call 911 and get the car towed - there goes $200 out the door - and yet I still managed to drive the car home, sans side mirror.
After taking it in to the body shop, I thought I was going to end up having to really take it on the chin for my deductible, despite the deer fur still on the remnants of my side mirror. This morning, I get a call from the insurance, and they inform me the deductible will only be half of what I had thought. The only major damage was a crack in the front bumper, the mirror, and the driver's door window. The latter was from the mirror, causing some pitting of the window. The deer did put some smallish dents in the side of the car, but nothing that couldn't be bumped out.
And then came today. I was going to take the opportunity to get gas in the vehicle, so I took my wife off to an appointment and then went off to the gas station.
As I was driving back into town, a #### kid in a Saturn rammed me while he was turning through an intersection, and there's now MORE damage to the car. Front bumper is shattered, with the grill. Fender got shoved back, so I can't open the driver's door. Hood is bent and damaged.
The intersection in question is both a.) the busiest in the city, because it leads to the Wal-Mart and the McDonald's, and b.) the worst for accidents.
Add to all this the lovely weather (sub-zero temps that make it feel like February, not December) and the fact that I am dangerously close to totaling out the car, and I'm just happy I'm okay.
This has NOT been a good week.
To update from other parts of the forums: On Thursday night, I was on my way to work (I work in a rural part of Wisconsin, at a corrections facility out in the middle of nowhere, on third shift) when I hit a deer on the county highway that leads out of town. I swerved to miss it, still managed to clip my driver's side (left side) mirror, and slid onto the shoulder. Because we have had an unusual cold snap here (it's sub-zero temps at the moment), the shoulder was pretty much solid ice - so the car went right into the ditch on the east side of the road. I was heading northbound at the time - and the car went flying over the frozen snow.
I actually thought I would be able to recover and get back on the highway, but momentum had finally caught up to my car, and the front got stuck in the deep snow. I had to call 911 and get the car towed - there goes $200 out the door - and yet I still managed to drive the car home, sans side mirror.
After taking it in to the body shop, I thought I was going to end up having to really take it on the chin for my deductible, despite the deer fur still on the remnants of my side mirror. This morning, I get a call from the insurance, and they inform me the deductible will only be half of what I had thought. The only major damage was a crack in the front bumper, the mirror, and the driver's door window. The latter was from the mirror, causing some pitting of the window. The deer did put some smallish dents in the side of the car, but nothing that couldn't be bumped out.
And then came today. I was going to take the opportunity to get gas in the vehicle, so I took my wife off to an appointment and then went off to the gas station.
As I was driving back into town, a #### kid in a Saturn rammed me while he was turning through an intersection, and there's now MORE damage to the car. Front bumper is shattered, with the grill. Fender got shoved back, so I can't open the driver's door. Hood is bent and damaged.
The intersection in question is both a.) the busiest in the city, because it leads to the Wal-Mart and the McDonald's, and b.) the worst for accidents.
Add to all this the lovely weather (sub-zero temps that make it feel like February, not December) and the fact that I am dangerously close to totaling out the car, and I'm just happy I'm okay.
This has NOT been a good week.
