Crashed the subaru

[rouar]

This happened last Saturday. I've been waiting to hear back from the insurance company, and to calm myself down a bit, before posting publicly.

Please be kind in your replies .. while my public posts this week have been chipper, I've inwardly been an emotional wreck.. whatever you have to say that is negative, trust me, I already know.

Bottom line, flock of geese were wandering on I-495S, the SUV in front of me slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting one, and I didn't stop quickly enough. I was in the middle lane, moderate to heavy traffic, but I was not tailgating. The car went under the SUV. Despite the amount of damage, insurance today has deemed it repairable. It will in a few hours be towed to the bodyshop that did my repairs last time.

[BloodyTomFlint]

Please be kind in your replies .. while my public posts this week have been chipper, I've inwardly been an emotional wreck.. whatever you have to say that is negative, trust me, I already know.

Sorry to hear about that. And nothing negative to say, no one leaves enough room. Did you at least get to eat the goose?

[rouar]

coolant-marinated goose .. yummy, lol..

[BloodyTomFlint]

Yessir, thems good eatins.

[CSVT1214]

God Matt, I'm really sorry. People need to learn, sometimes its better just to hit the animal. They could have saved their car and yours.

[frenchblueC2]

One thing I wasn't clear on when you first told me about this:
Were there other cars in front of the chick in front of you?
Who hit the goose? her?

I'm just wondering how much of a pile up this caused and if you two were the only ones that incurred damage.

[frenchblueC2]

People need to learn, sometimes its better just to hit the animal. They could have saved their car and yours.

That's what I was taught in driver's ed. Most of the time it's safer to hit the critter than put others on the road at risk with your crappy animal avoidance.

[iBrent]

oh no!! and it was just fixed too .

I hope everything works out.

[D.Acker]

Oh crap Matt! That sucks. Sorry to hear. I'm assuming since you've been around you're ok?

The geese aren't proctected are they? I think here we get fined or something for hitting one.

But yeah, she should have mowed over them and kept going, you may have still incurred damaged from flying goose parts, but would have been better than this.

GL with repairs, and if you suffered any damage feel better.

[blu_fuz]

That idiot. Slam the brakes to miss a ing bird . Put a human's life at risk because you want to save a bird, that you didn't save anyway. They probably feel bad, but what a dumb choice. They could have killed someone. No blame on you really because no one should be going from 70 to 0 on the highway without some kind of accident.

Get well, and I hope they save the car .