Rstar cheats death like CP!

[RStar]

In the spirit (and honor) of Cadaverous Parlor, I too cheated death in a car.


I was on my way to work, going west on the 22 in the right lane. I had just gotten on and was trying to merge left when the right lane came to a complete stop. The off ramp at Beach had backed up onto the freeway. I just about came to a stop about 3 car lengths behind a white VW Jetta, and looked into my rear view mirror. I saw a White Buick Regal approaching at about 55 MPH, and closing in. The driver slammed on his breaks and began fish tailing out of control. I let off my breaks and advance forward to give him more room to stop. If I hadn't, it may have been much worse!

As I got about 1 car length behind the Jetta, he slammed into me at about 40MPH, forcing me into the Jetta. The front of his car is badly crumpled. We all get out briefly; I looked at our cars. The Buick wasn't leaking. I had a tail pipe stuffed with foam from his bumper, and a wrinkled back bumper, and the Jetta just had a scratch. I have duel exhaust, so I felt we could all get out of harms way and get off the freeway. There was no right shoulder, and with all of the construction, it was dangerous for us to be there.

Everyone was ok, just shook up. I'll need a new front bumper, back bumper, and work done on my exaust at the very least. There is some noise comming from the underside.

But the real worry is that I just has C-Spine surgery (2 level bone fusion, on May 22nd) that I'm healing up from, and have been wondering what might happen if I had an accident. Thank God the airbags didn't deploy! That could have sent me back to the hospital. I went to Urgent Care and had Xrays, everything looks good.

BTW, I think my car did pretty well for the inpact it got. I have a 2006 Ford Fusion (got it a week before my bone fusion!).

The driver of the Buick was a 17 year old trying to get the Cal State Long Beach for registration, driving on bald front tires. I feel sorry for him, but he should be more carefull.