Subject	Got rear ended
Posted by	hunterg on February 06, 2014 at 3:01 PM
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Message	Hey guys I had quite a weird crash the other night. I think the woman may have fallen asleep at the wheel because she ran into me while we were driving about 40mph. Traveling down a 2 lane road at midnight. Speed limit is 35 so I'm going about 40mph. Wasn't braking or slowing down and I get hit from behind by a Honda Accord. She was probably going 45-50mph. It felt like quite a huge hit, so I was expecting a lot of damage, however the damage initially didn't look bad. Some small paint cracks and the rear bumper is a little off alignment I got her information(no police called) and we decided to handle it outside insurance since I thought it would likely be a few hundred bucks. In hindsight, not getting a police report was a mistake, but so far the lady at fault is communicating and cooperating with me. Here's the part that has me really worried..last night I noticed a massive dent behind my driver side door in front of the rear wheel. I remember seeing crash pics on TT.net over the years of z32s being rear ended and the rear fenders buckle just over the rear wheels, which likely made the chassis not worth repair. Check out my pictures below and tell me if you think this might be related to the crash- I realize the dent(or buckle) is in a different place than usual, but it looks like the majority of the impact was made to the driver side of my rear bumper, which could potentially move the spot where the body would buckle(no buckling apparent on the pass side. I already took the car to classic collision here in atlanta(reputable body shop) and the guy didn't think the dent was related to the crash, however he didn't say it wasn't possible. Only way to know for sure was to put the car on a jig, which is very labor intensive$$$$. He recommended getting an alignment to see if the car will drive and align straight. It SEEMS to drive fine so far, but what the hell do I know? Possible that this dent is related to getting rear ended, or did my car get hit AGAIN in a parking lot in the past 2 days and the person took off without leaving their info? SRC="http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l284/shawtaehunter11/shot.jpg ">
Follow Ups	Got rear ended - hunterg 15:01:34 02/06/14 HUGE mistake. Now she is going to claim you are trying to - LJZTT 15:11:03 02/06/14 2nd. (n/m) - StramanVerTT(GA) 08:39:09 02/07/14 3rd (n/m) - 300zxNA2TT 12:37:29 02/07/14 If you never noticed the dent before... - Aqualung 15:18:05 02/06/14 Same here, at least in CA, cops won't show up - ZXRider 15:19:18 02/06/14 In GA if you call, 10 will show up in 3 minutes (n/m) - hunterg 16:26:36 02/06/14 My insurance guy says always get a report. (n/m) - Bernie (NoVA) 01:40:38 02/07/14 Can you ask your insurance guy what would he - ZXRider 09:40:10 02/07/14 You can still file for a police report - ZXRider 15:18:12 02/06/14 I got rear ended many years back and had the same "dent" - Ahmed (NoVA) 15:18:32 02/06/14 Did you check the undercarriage specifically the two - Krazyd27(Houston) 16:02:07 02/06/14 there was no other damage that I was aware of (n/m) - Ahmed (NoVA) 07:58:47 02/07/14 What was the outcome? Fixed? Totaled? (n/m) - hunterg 16:47:59 02/06/14 easily fixed...body guy popped out the buckle - Ahmed (NoVA) 16:59:39 02/06/14 Good to hear. Did the car align properly after? - hunterg 17:05:54 02/06/14 yes the car aligned properly - Ahmed (NoVA) 07:58:06 02/07/14 odds are the buckle is from the rear end impact. (n/m) - 90TT Zfan (E.Tenn) 15:20:36 02/06/14 That dent is definitely related to the crash. The energy tra - MixManMash 15:26:15 02/06/14 Was the damage on a z32? Do you recall - hunterg 17:08:49 02/06/14 Yes it was. Even if I was to disclose the number it - MixManMash 09:29:19 02/07/14 Definitely related to the crash. I was rear ended years ago - Jayru 16:03:30 02/06/14 Will be visiting more shops, thanks - hunterg 17:10:28 02/06/14 No pics, was almost 15 years ago. But the damage was worse - Jayru 09:33:47 02/07/14 Agreed (n/m) - Bernie (NoVA) 01:41:34 02/07/14 It's related. Same thing happened to me - BondzTT 13:56:35 02/07/14 Wow, thanks for the feedback everyone. - hunterg 16:16:11 02/06/14 If it costs more than you both thought... - Aqualung 16:31:52 02/06/14 got the same damage when I was hit in my first Z. (n/m) - Halo TTZ 16:37:02 02/06/14 What was the outcome? Fixed? Totaled? (n/m) - hunterg 16:46:49 02/06/14 it was a 93 NA in 2001, it was fixed. but it did have - Halo TTZ 17:43:35 02/06/14 Did you get any witnesses' contact info? - bartz32tt 16:37:41 02/06/14 No witnesses. We were the only 2 cars on the road @ 11pm (n/m) - hunterg 16:45:13 02/06/14 ALWAYS get a police report - Agent X 17:29:32 02/06/14 I bet you definitely have unibody damage, check under - CmyZ 17:48:32 02/06/14 Not necessarily. I've seen it where the wibble / dent is - MixManMash 09:31:14 02/07/14 Re: Got rear ended - GCamp 17:51:25 02/06/14 Do you know how fast she was going? - 300ZMang 07:27:44 02/07/14 JMO, but it seems to me that if you got hit hard enough - TheMarlin (MidTN) 12:10:09 02/07/14 It was a pretty big hit. As far as her speed - hunterg 00:47:32 02/08/14
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