A kid driving an old Ford Ranger in the rain without brakes hit my wife and I as we were stopped in a line of traffic in my 2014 Volt. I heard his tire squealing and looked in my mirror. He was so far back I thought he could stop, but I had some room and hit the power demand pedal to move forward, hoping he could stop. Watching in my mirror as the right front of his truck whacked into the left rear of the Volt. I was so pissed off I jumped out of the car and started yelling at the kid, ask him how the he ll he can be such a bad driver, etc and he said he had been working on the brakes and they didn't work! The tire squealing was from him locking up the parking brake.
It's 1 AM and I've had a vicodin, some muscle relaxers and two glasses of cheap win and I still can't sleep. Maybe I need better wine.
There was a fire truck right beside us when it happened so they called an bambalance and took some vitals. My blood pressure was at 160 and heart rate at 100. Bambulance guys sqeezed some sore ares on my neck and put me in a collar and took me to the ER. My wonderful wife took care of getting the car home before she came to the ER to get evaled. Looks like whiplash-type extreme muscle extensions for both of us, and she is actually worse though she didn't show it at the scene. She is made of steel. At the end of the world it will be just her and the cockroaches that survive.
Pain for a while and we'll be OK. Tomorrow I'll talk further with my insurance agent about what to expect. They have USAA and considering the kid was driving with no brakes I expect a big azz rental car for the time the Volt is recovering like a 20 foot Lincoln town car. The impact bent the steel cross member at the back of the car pretty good, so it's not just damage to plastic.
It's 1 AM and I've had a vicodin, some muscle relaxers and some win and I just want to sleep. Sorry if I'm rambling. My refrigerator is making odd noises.
