Well, it wasn't really my fault, but it's good and dead.
My gf commissioned me to help her move boxes to her new place with her '94 Saturn SW1 wagon. I was doing ~30mph through downtown when a nice Sedan Deville pulled out in front of me from a stop sign. Slammed the brakes at the same time I went 'ah shit,' because it was too late. Smacked into the r/f quarter of the Caddy, stopped the Saturn cold. Airbag deployed, completely destroyed the front of the Saturn. Did only minor damage to the Cad, but then I wouldn't really expect much considering the Cad is 3 tons of steel and the Saturn is 2600lbs of plastic and recycled tin cans.
It happened right in front of a Porsche repair shop, so all of the techs there saw it, and several city roadworkers from the yard across the street saw it too.
I'm fine aside from some rug-burns on my forearms from the airbag and a bashed knuckle that i think hit the turn signal witch. The other guy is an older guy who shouldn't be driving, but fortunately has insurance. Judging from the car and the driver, he probably has really good insurance.
My gf is rather distraught. The car is a pos, but it ran very well, got good mileage, only had 98k mi on it, and had no mechanical problems whatsoever. Unfortunately, it's a '94 Saturn SW1, so it's worth beans to the insurance company. I'm not expecting her to get any more than $1400 for it (Nada 'clean trade-in'), but $1k would probably be closer to my estimate. Not really enough to get another reliable car to replace it, in any case. Not really sure what she's gonna do.
On top of all this, we still need to get her moved by Tuesday, and she needs to find transportation so she can get to each of her 3 jobs.
*sigh*
My gf commissioned me to help her move boxes to her new place with her '94 Saturn SW1 wagon. I was doing ~30mph through downtown when a nice Sedan Deville pulled out in front of me from a stop sign. Slammed the brakes at the same time I went 'ah shit,' because it was too late. Smacked into the r/f quarter of the Caddy, stopped the Saturn cold. Airbag deployed, completely destroyed the front of the Saturn. Did only minor damage to the Cad, but then I wouldn't really expect much considering the Cad is 3 tons of steel and the Saturn is 2600lbs of plastic and recycled tin cans.
It happened right in front of a Porsche repair shop, so all of the techs there saw it, and several city roadworkers from the yard across the street saw it too.
I'm fine aside from some rug-burns on my forearms from the airbag and a bashed knuckle that i think hit the turn signal witch. The other guy is an older guy who shouldn't be driving, but fortunately has insurance. Judging from the car and the driver, he probably has really good insurance.
My gf is rather distraught. The car is a pos, but it ran very well, got good mileage, only had 98k mi on it, and had no mechanical problems whatsoever. Unfortunately, it's a '94 Saturn SW1, so it's worth beans to the insurance company. I'm not expecting her to get any more than $1400 for it (Nada 'clean trade-in'), but $1k would probably be closer to my estimate. Not really enough to get another reliable car to replace it, in any case. Not really sure what she's gonna do.
On top of all this, we still need to get her moved by Tuesday, and she needs to find transportation so she can get to each of her 3 jobs.
*sigh*