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I'd heard the talk, and even seen a few pics, but I had personally never seen a fairly significant front/rear collision where one of the vehicles was caved in and the other one wasn't even scratched. Until this afternoon, anyway. My 16 year old son driving our H2 rear-ended a girl at a redlight, seriously caving in the entire rear of her VW Passat. Fortunately she wasn't injured (nor was he), but her car is going to need basically everything from the rear glass back. The officer who wrote up the report finished up with her car, walked over and looked at the front of the Hummer for 30 seconds or so, and then turned to me and said (with the look and sound of someone who had seen a UFO and just couldn't believe it), "I can't find any damage." It has a chrome brushguard, bumper, and tow hooks, and as best I can tell it doesn't have a mark on it. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it.
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08-18-2005, 02:07 PM
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08-18-2005, 12:08 AM
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Alec W:
My girl will be 17 in a few short years and I plan on giving her my H2 as her first ride. **** the insurance cost and other cars, it's only money and my girl is worth more money than I have. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Exactly. Very well put.
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08-17-2005, 11:22 PM
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Wow..Just where did you get your Psych degree from again? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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08-17-2005, 10:09 PM
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">you take pleasure in other peoples misfortune? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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08-17-2005, 09:40 PM
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Your son hit someone=HE'S AT FAULT. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Wow!!! didn't realize that... now I am the newest follower of Hummerdestroyer. please take me under your wing as your newest and most eager student..
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08-17-2005, 09:06 AM
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Glad everyone is ok. I have seen a bunch of VW's in accidents and those cars sure can hold up.
I heard about an accident where a woman hit the back of an h1 at 45mph while the h1 was stopped at a red light. He had a bicycle on the back and his infant son in the back seat. The kid was asleep and never woke up. The cop was looking for the rider of the bike.
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08-17-2005, 10:03 PM
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So HD, do I understand this correctly, you take pleasure in other peoples misfortune? May I ask why? Are you that filed with hate or jealousy or whatever you want to call it that you take pleasure in this? It is unfortunate for all involved that the accident ever happen but that is exactly what it was, an accident. That is what insurance is for. Anyone with half a brain realizes that the insurance will more than likely go up without you having to laugh and point it out. It is just so sad that you feel the need to do so 
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08-17-2005, 09:45 PM
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Who said his insurance was cheap?
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08-17-2005, 03:08 PM
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Is it about 13mph? I've also heard 22mpg... I guess it depends on the manufacturer..
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08-18-2005, 12:58 AM
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You know, that stuff about a missile makes me want to put a blower on the H2. Then my son could really inflict some damage on the other poor saps out there. As Bugs Bunny often said, "what a maroon!"
What Alec said is exactly why my son is driving my H2 rather than one of the other lighter and much more powerful cars that I own. And my insurance is not only my business, it also won't go up for a number of reasons I have no desire to explain to a troll. |
08-16-2005, 11:02 PM
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Sorry about the accident. hope everyone is ok.
I'm surprised HD hasn't posted in this thread yet.
tick tock tick tock tick tock....
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08-17-2005, 01:24 AM
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by TXSUT:
My advice...be ready to seek help from an attorney. There's a possibility that someone will get into that girl's head about filing a lawsuit. I've seen it happen on several occasions.
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08-16-2005, 11:14 PM
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Yeah, I know, pics would convey what I said much better than words, but I didn't have a camera at the scene (and while I could take pics of the Hummer now that isn't going to show any damage).
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08-16-2005, 10:48 PM
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08-18-2005, 03:45 AM
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Red, why were you letting your 16yo run rampant in the city with an H2? What? Are you crazy?!?!?!?! HD is right, we should really be concerned about the other guy, not ourselves or our own family. I think you should teach your son a lesson and get him a yugo, or better yet, just a scooter. That way, if he's running rampant in the city again, he'll just kill himself and not someone else. God forbid if he were to hit a comanche on the road or something....
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My advice...be ready to seek help from an attorney. There's a possibility that someone will get into that girl's head about filing a lawsuit. I've seen it happen on several occasions.
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08-17-2005, 03:23 PM
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My wife had a similar accident in our Suburban with a brushguard on the front. Both were stopped at a stop sign turning right, the lady goes and then abruptly stops and my wife is looking to the left for on-coming traffic and steps on it. She hit the back to the Bonneville and caused over $5k in damages!! All from a standing start. It was the same, damaged to the rear window and all it did on ours was bend the license plate!
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08-18-2005, 02:05 PM
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Just found out the Passat is totalled.
Missile 1, VW 0.
Oh, the horror of it all.
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08-17-2005, 10:50 AM
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KenP:
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>Glad everyone is ok. What caused the accident?[/quote]
It had been raining hard, but had pretty much stopped, so he had his wipers on intermittent. As he was coming up on an intersection he ran through a puddle that was a lot deeper than he thought and it threw up a lot of water on his windshield. He got on the brakes and reached for the wipers, but apparently about that time she stopped (she was moving when the water came up), and he just didn't get stopped in time.
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Man, I thought those guys were kidding about Hummers and frontal collisions
