Another reason why people shouldn't buy civics...

[Keyan]

.....or allow people who own civics to DRIVE.

Ok, so I'm driving SpartanElantra home when I stop to make a left turn across heavy traffic...well, I'm getting ahead of myself. I didn't even get across traffic.

I had checked my rearview mirror, and I saw a silver car maybe 500 feet behind me driving really slow. Well, I couldn't cross traffic because it was so heavy, so I sat there waiting and about 15 seconds later....
SSSQQUUUEEAAALLLLLL BUMP "****!"
A silver civic slid up my right side and stopped. I angerly pointed and told her to pull into the parking lot right up the road.
The first thing I did when I got out of my car was to check her car, so I appeared to be more concered about if she was alright....(F#$!@$!ing B$@#@tch F$@#ked up my F$@#$ing car!!!)
Her entire front left fender was bend inside out, with the metal cutting into the wheel. Uh oh, I thought, I wonder what my car looked like.
Turned around....and judge for yourself.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/Keyan/DSCF0108.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/Keyan/DSCF0107.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/Keyan/DSCF0105.jpg
The rear bumper now sits further in than the tail light, which tells me it's bent and needs to be replaced :(

And the lady denied this, but her side mirror f%#@$ked up my right rear tail light and quater panel as well
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/Keyan/DSCF0106.jpg


This REALLY sucks because it won't be fixed before the baltimore meet! :mad:

:kick:

[NorthernYankee]

not too bad considering...but its still heartbreaking when you look at it.

--NY

[SPARTANELANTRA]

first off


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but now to get to the point... i was in this crash and i thought i was going to die but after i felt the bump and i realized that there was not a air bag fixing to punch me in the nose i was like ... damn im a lucky bastard.. but then i just had to laugh because the old lady went sliding by in her 96 civic DX steering like crazy it was one of the funniest things i have ever seen, but any way i feel bad for keyan because now he has to get a new bumper

[hyunelan2]

My damage estimate: $1400. That sucks. You got off luck though, had she been over another foot to the left, you'd prob need a new tunk, taillight, and others.

Sorry. I know how much it sucks, just got my car back from the shop yesterday.

[Jlivan]

Damn! Sorry to hear that, I wouldn't blame it all on civics...she was old you know. Same thing happened a year ago w/my husband's car. The old woman tried to tell us that the dent on the car was there before she hit us. Excuse me...how the hell did she know? She wasn't even aware that she backed into us.

[jameswing]

Old people need to take driving tests like teanagers do before they get their licences.

Or just change causing a accident into a felony like mexico. :)

I have been overseas in asia, and seen people driveing worse than here, but not nearly as many accidents, and thats in Bangkok 6 million residents +a few hundred thousand visitors in a city 3/4 the size of LA.

[ButterBean]

Sucks about the bumper, but luckily that's all it is.

Not just old people, but EVERYONE needs to be re-tested about once every 2 years...none of this panzy crap where you drive around a parking lot, put the car in reverse, remember your seatbelt and then you get a license. A day long course and you muck it up, no test again for a few months...if you want to drive on the streets, you should have to work at it! It's not a right, and there are way too many people on the streets anyway...If we could get rid of about 1/3 - 1/2 the people then I could finally have my own personal lane on the highway :D

Oh yeah, and those of you that can't drive and answer a cell phone at the same time then :stupid:

[slvrsleeper]

Hey man it could have been a lot worse, when you get to B-more I'll show you my SUV rash on the passenger side. That will make you feel much better

[watson80]

Sorry to hear about all this. But atleast you're getting it fixed and you dont have to pay let the old hag pay for that ****!!

[jameswing]

Sucks about the bumper, but luckily that's all it is.

Not just old people, but EVERYONE needs to be re-tested about once every 2 years...none of this panzy crap where you drive around a parking lot, put the car in reverse, remember your seatbelt and then you get a license. A day long course and you muck it up, no test again for a few months...if you want to drive on the streets, you should have to work at it! It's not a right, and there are way too many people on the streets anyway...If we could get rid of about 1/3 - 1/2 the people then I could finally have my own personal lane on the highway :D

Oh yeah, and those of you that can't drive and answer a cell phone at the same time then :stupid:

I had friends who were German exchange students a few years ago, and they said that it cost about $1000 US and a lot of training to get a license if you were under 21, and still a lot if you were older, but thats why they don't have speed limets.

[2GTS]

I had friends who were German exchange students a few years ago, and they said that it cost about $1000 US and a lot of training to get a license if you were under 21, and still a lot if you were older, but thats why they don't have speed limets.
They really need to overhaul the drivers license system here and make it a national drivers license instead of each state issuing their own with their unique rules. People need to be reminded that driving is a privalege and not a right, maybe then the roads would be safer and there would be more qualified drivers on the road. We could really learn quite a bit from Germany in regrards to driver training.

[hyunelan2]

The other problem is that in most areas of the U.S. there is no alternative to driving. There are no local mass transit systems outside of the urbanized areas, and everything is spread out and set up to accomodate for a nation of cars. Changing the system would cause for a whole change of lifestyle for the United States.

Now the nationalized license plan, I like that one. Our State sucks at DMV related activities. Although, there'd be plenty of people screeming about it 'really' being the department of homeland security wanting to track everyone.

[jameswing]

Thats right, most parts of europe and aisa have good mass transit systems so that not eveyone has to drive, but look at the shear size and Makeup of the US. even though we have big citys, we also have hundreds of miles of nothing in between.

I don't know how other states are but in Cali you have to go into the office to do just about everything. and the system sucks, if you change your address you have to list all of your vehicles on the for or they won't have their addresses changed, because they are not linked to you. What kind of a dumbass made up that Database? Their reason There can be more than one person with the same name. yeah sure but not more than 1 with the same SSN or DL#. and in order to change anything you have to go in, the only thing you can do by mail is reregister you car(online now also), and renew your licence (the one thing that you should really have to go in for every so often).

The national license is a good Idea but that would be a major PITA to organize and you know AARP would be against it, so that means that it wouldn't get done untill more young people can agree to out vote those basterds.

You don't want to get me started on politics

[2GTS]

Public transportation really needs an overhaul as well, and Chicago and the burbs is a good example. Sure we have trains and buses but they all run east-west not a single one goes north-south. If you wanted to get from the south burbs to the north burbs you have to take a train ne to downtown and then hop on another train going nw to get back out of the city to where you're going.

The whole idea of a national license and the homeland sec dept becoming the same is really only a bad thing if you're trying to hide something. And if you are I probably want you behind bars instead of a steering wheel. It's not like there would be a tracking device on the license anyway.

[jameswing]

It's not like there would be a tracking device on the license anyway.

Not that you know of........... J/k

[hyunelan2]

I agree that there's no reason to be afraid of the DOHS (hahah - Department of homeland security = DOHS - doh!) , i have no problem with a national registry - I don't need to hide, but I'm sure the ACLU and a whole bunch of other @ssholes will be fighting it, saying it will invade people's rights.

[SPARTANELANTRA]

hey im from germany and rigbht now it would have cost me 2.5 grand and a half year of driving school to get my liscense

[04 elantra cvvt]

Sorry to hear about this Keyan. I hope you get it fixed soon. Just make sure you take it to a GOOD body shop.

[watson80]

Yeah get it fixed up right so everything looks like it matches!

[jameswing]

Looks like this threadis comming back from being :hijacked:

Hope things go good with repairs.