Rear ended

[SwampGas]

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I'm sitting at a stop light yesterday...and I hear skidding. Not the dry rubber on pavement...the sliding kind of skid because the ground was wet. I was looking around to see if someone was gunning it at the light.

Looked in the rear view really quickly and saw a truck barrelling down on me. Took my foot off the brake, he slammed into me, and then I hit the brake again really quick before I hit the car infront of me.

It seemed to be a pretty good, hard, solid collision square into the back.

Pulled over, got out, and looked. Not a freaking scratch

He really did a hard smack, too...my head hit the head rest pretty hard.

Upon closer inspection, there's a tiny dent in the license plate underneath that black border thing the dealer puts on. Other than that, nothing. It was even a big, chrome bumper on that truck.

Not sure if me letting go of the brake before impact helped, if it was Acura's design, or The Force was with me...but that was pretty weird.

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[Paladyn]

> Posted this on the a-tl forum...
>
> I'm sitting at a stop light yesterday...and I hear skidding.
> Not the dry rubber on pavement...the sliding kind of skid
> because the ground was wet. I was looking around to see if
> someone was gunning it at the light.
>
> Looked in the rear view really quickly and saw a truck
> barrelling down on me. Took my foot off the brake, he
> slammed into me, and then I hit the brake again really quick
> before I hit the car infront of me.
>
> It seemed to be a pretty good, hard, solid collision square
> into the back.
>
> Pulled over, got out, and looked. Not a freaking scratch
>
> He really did a hard smack, too...my head hit the head rest
> pretty hard.
>
> Upon closer inspection, there's a tiny dent in the license
> plate underneath that black border thing the dealer puts on.
> Other than that, nothing. It was even a big, chrome bumper
> on that truck.
>
> Not sure if me letting go of the brake before impact helped,
> if it was Acura's design, or The Force was with me...but
> that was pretty weird.
>
I wish my car was like that. Chryslers will fucking dent in a stiff breeze. :P

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[World_Demise]

> Posted this on the a-tl forum...
>
> I'm sitting at a stop light yesterday...and I hear skidding.
> Not the dry rubber on pavement...the sliding kind of skid
> because the ground was wet. I was looking around to see if
> someone was gunning it at the light.
>
> Looked in the rear view really quickly and saw a truck
> barrelling down on me. Took my foot off the brake, he
> slammed into me, and then I hit the brake again really quick
> before I hit the car infront of me.
>
> It seemed to be a pretty good, hard, solid collision square
> into the back.
>
> Pulled over, got out, and looked. Not a freaking scratch
>
> He really did a hard smack, too...my head hit the head rest
> pretty hard.
>
> Upon closer inspection, there's a tiny dent in the license
> plate underneath that black border thing the dealer puts on.
> Other than that, nothing. It was even a big, chrome bumper
> on that truck.
>
> Not sure if me letting go of the brake before impact helped,
> if it was Acura's design, or The Force was with me...but
> that was pretty weird.
>
Dude, take the car to a good mechanic and have it looked at. Even tho you don't see any marks on the outside, I bet something's bent out of shape or damaged in the bumpers or somewhere else. I've seen it happen before

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[Isildur]

You sound pretty lucky, but like World_Demise said, get your car checked out, just in case something you can't see got bent or shaken loose.

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