The End
This is the result of a guy in a Saturn Vue pulling out in front of me, where I didn't quite have enough time to react to miss him completely. Impact at about 45 MPH, air bags deployed, spun the other car completely around. Mangled the hood and fender, broken headlight, grille, bumper cover, cracked wheel, creased door, small crease in the roof suggesting frame damage, air suspension blown out on both sides and control arm broken on the impact side.
The officer at the scene estimated $8000 in damage, and the car wasn't worth anywhere near that, so obviously it was totaled. But it gave its life to protect me; my only injury from the accident was an abrasion on the wrist from the air bag deploying.
The Lincoln emblem from the grille stayed with me as a memento of a car I'll always remember fondly.
The End
This is the result of a guy in a Saturn Vue pulling out in front of me, where I didn't quite have enough time to react to miss him completely. Impact at about 45 MPH, air bags deployed, spun the other car completely around. Mangled the hood and fender, broken headlight, grille, bumper cover, cracked wheel, creased door, small crease in the roof suggesting frame damage, air suspension blown out on both sides and control arm broken on the impact side.
The officer at the scene estimated $8000 in damage, and the car wasn't worth anywhere near that, so obviously it was totaled. But it gave its life to protect me; my only injury from the accident was an abrasion on the wrist from the air bag deploying.
The Lincoln emblem from the grille stayed with me as a memento of a car I'll always remember fondly.