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The cloud of bad luck still looms over us fellow CEGer's....

Earlier today I was driving on I-71 south, to visit my girlfriend and I was in the middle lane, in the process of switching lanes to the right lane and my car lifted up and hydroplaned. I was just beginning to move into the other lane and my tires caught the row of slush that collects between the lanes on that dashed lines and it made me spin 180 degrees and I faced traffic and hit the guardrail. I was only going about 55 because it was raining/snowing. Luckily I had my seatbelt on and wasnt hurt at all, but I was really shaken up. I have never been that scared in my entire life, I thought I was going to die. I'm actually still a little shaky as I write this. The car has a good amount of damage but isn't totalled and was still driveable. It took an HOUR AND A HALF for the state trooper to get there, when I was less than a mile from the station. Because I wasn't hurt at all, the injured people got first priority. On top of that, I was cited for failure to control! WTF!!! There were 3 accidents on the other side of the road before I had mine. Then there were 2 when I was driving home. When I was in the troopers car doing paper work, he told me before my accident he was with some girl i went to school with for 12 years and said she rolled her car a few miles back. I think if I can get all the police reports for that area, then I can fight it in court and say there were bad conditions. What an effing crappy weekend. Heres some pics of it all.















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Ouch, sorry to hear this. Yeah it is getting bad down here in Ashland too, whereabouts does your g/f live?
Also I couldn't help notice you go to UT, what year are you? My sister is a under-grad from there she is in grad-school right now her 1st year of it actually (she graduated in 05 and is going for another 3 years for her doctrine )

Edit: I just looked at the pictures closer, I dunno about not totaled, maybe close though. Good luck on getting it fixed.

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That sucks to hear but I don't get this black cloud over CEG thing.


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i know what you mean bro my car maybe totaled due to a rear ender. i feel ya.


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MAN!! I hit a big pothole today... I think it bent my pass LCA. Not as bad as your setup, but bad luck for both of us!


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Originally posted by Mystique97:
Ouch, sorry to hear this. Yeah it is getting bad down here in Ashland too, whereabouts does your g/f live?
Also I couldn't help notice you go to UT, what year are you? My sister is a under-grad from there she is in grad-school right now her 1st year of it actually (she graduated in 05 and is going for another 3 years for her doctrine )

Edit: I just looked at the pictures closer, I dunno about not totaled, maybe close though. Good luck on getting it fixed.




My gf goes to Denison University. I am a freshman at UT because my grades from community college were't good enough to transfer over to my scholarship. The accident happened around mile marker 170, I think thats further south than Ashland. The quarter panel (not sure of the correct name) that is dented in that goes from the roof and c-pillar might need alot of $ to fix. My dad doesn't want to turn it in to the insurance, but we're stil not sure yet.

I swear this car is cursed. The first week we had it, someone t-boned my sister in the drivers fender. Then it got rearended at low speed (less than 15mph), then I took out a cat going 60, which ripped half of the bumper cover off, then my buddy backed into it and scraped the rear passenger door and the quarter panel, after that was all fixed, it got some scrapes from the community college parking lot and now this.

Kremit- I meant black cloud as a figure of speech because it seems like CEG'ers are getting into alot of accidents recently.


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Sorry to hear 'bout your accident . Looks like you put a hurtin' on that guardrail ! I hope it fixes up OK for ya (fingers crossed) . At least you weren't hurt .


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Sorry to hear about your accident. Looks like you hit the guardrail pretty good. Hope everything turns out ok for ya (also crosses fingers) At least you were ok...the car can be replaced!


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