This was about 4 years ago in Atlanta.
It was a rainy Friday evening on my way home from work. I stopped to get gas at the gas station about a 100 yards from my condo complex. That’s how close to home and the weekend I was.
I need to make a left hand turn out of the gas station parking lot. There are 2 right-bound lanes and the closest one is full and stopped back from stoplight. There is no one in the second lane. A driver in a Lincoln LS has left the gas station driveway open, and waves me to make my left turn.
Following his advice, I get T-boned in my driver-side door by a Pontiac Aztek coming up second lane. Very scary.
And then…
It’s crazy all the things that have time to run through your head in the split second before an accident. Holy shit that guy’s coming fast. Dude that guy in the LS told me to go. He’s going to hit me. Honk. This might really hurt. If I die, Bryn’s going to kill me. Honk.
Crash!
The airbags go off and I’m still laying on the horn when I realize I’m ok. My driver’s seat area is noticeably smaller but I don’t even have a scratch on me. I’m shaken up but the car makes it the final few hundred feet to my complex.
My door wouldn’t open so I crawled over the console to the passenger side to get out and inspect the damage. It was at that point I became very thankful to have been driving such a solidly built and safe car. It was pretty much a direct hit!
The best part was it was this cashmere colored Explorer. It was a company car so I call over to the office that’s just 2 miles down the road to see if anyone is still there. Ten minutes later my friends Jen and Heather pull up, in two identical cashmere-colored Mountaineers. “Here’s your new car, Nick.” The kids in the Aztek and the guy in the LS must have been like, “Who is this guy?”
Ford’s insurance ended up totaling the car (sticker price $42k), and I was cited with a $200 “failure to yield” ticket. Ouch!
Bye-bye, first company car. I hardly even got to know you!
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