That's one pretty crunched up car right? So crunched up the insurance company wrote it off rather than try to repair it. Basically one December evening on the way back from Walmart traffic stopped, I stopped, the lady in the two ton SUV behind me busy admiring the Christmas lights across the road didn't stop. Wham she went in to the back of me at 40mph, pushing me in to the pickup truck in front of me which got pushed in to the vehicle in front of him. I got out with no scratch at all even though the back window had shattered glass all over me, my glasses had been thrown from my face and were sitting by the front windscreen and the frame of the car ended up being bent.
How do I classify this as a good thing you ask? I'll point out the following good points that came from this:-
1) Other than a fricking sore neck for a few days I walked away from this unharmed.
2) The car had 105000 miles on it and was coming to the end of a 60000 mile lease. With it being written off the insurance covered all of it with no cost to me.
3) It allowed me to go on to purchase my current car (ok SUV) which I still have after 7 years and coming up to 210000 miles and I'm still loving it.
4) The lady who hit me immediately admitted responsibility and other than one phone call to my insurance company it was all dealt with easily.
5) I could have been in my other car at the time, a BMW roadster. If you can see the back of the car the SUV that hit me didn't touch my rear bumper. If I had been in that BMW then she would have ridden over the back of me and potentially on top of me resulting in potentially serious injury.
So there you have it. How something shitty that happened to me actually turned out all well and good in the end. It also helps that I always try to see the positive in situations which couldn't be helped here.
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