My baby’s broken

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While I was driving to work this morning, a man failed to yield at a light & I smashed into his pickup. I pulled off to the shoulder & started making phone calls. He pulled over then drove off again. Luckily, someone called the police station with his license plate number and the local police were able to track his info down. I’m just relieved that my truck’s damage is going to be paid for.

Here’s the rest of the pics.

update: The preliminary estimate declared my truck a total loss, stating the repairs would be nearly $4000. I’m okay with it being a total; I’ve been wanting to get a car with better gas mileage. But I’d be cool with my truck getting repaired too: it runs great. I couldn’t have asked for a more dependable vehicle.

update #2: Here’s how it ended.

8 Comments so far

  1. richard on March 8th, 2006

    Too bad, looks like a nice truck. You should get a Nissan Micra next, haha.

  2. Mikey on March 8th, 2006

    goddamnit that is a nice chevy truck you got there nick.
    people like that shouldnt be allowed to drive

    ….or live muhahahahahah :P

  3. mindcaster on March 9th, 2006

    damn, glad you don’t suffer from this. Seeing that beast of a truck, I can’t help but frown at my bike now :]

  4. Matt on March 11th, 2006

    This same thing happened to one of my friends a couple weeks ago. Luckily, a couple blocks down from where the guy hit my friend and drove off, he hit another car and the police were able to catch him. There’s crazy people out there…

  5. max on March 13th, 2006

    Ouch! Glad no one was injured, and hope the guy gets whats coming to him! :)

  6. Nick Starr on March 17th, 2006

    Well if you get a new vehicle out it, that’s a good thing I guess. All depends on your outlook. Better gas mileage is certainly a better thing.

    Good luck

  7. Mikey on March 19th, 2006

    “I couldn’t have asked for a more dependable vehicle. ”

    well, it is a chevy :P

  8. FriedGeek on March 21st, 2006

    Ouch! At least they picked up the guy.

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