Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
On the way home from town we were rear ended...and we were only 1.5 miles from home to boot! They always say the most accidents happen within five miles of the home.
My kids were freaked out. We had just filled all our water, picked up some rabbit feed, some lumber for my raised bed (totally blew my plans for this evening!), and some sand for my carrots. I was planning on coming home and starting on my raised bed and stuff.
We were slowing down to make a left hand turn, and I heard tires squealing. I was nonchalantly thinking, "Oh someone's going to get hit" and BAM it was us! It sounded like a bomb exploded. Next thing I know all five kids are screaming, I turned in my seat and asked are ya'll OK? and they said yes just scared. DH had already ripped off his seat belt and leaped out of the car (oh he was soooo mad) and by the time he got to the other guy, he'd decided (thankfully) to keep his cool. He asked him, "Did you see us?"
guy (kid really): yea but by that time it was too late to stop.
Dh: well are you hurt?
guy: no
DH walked back to our van, and since this happened infront of the home of someone DH formerly worked with, we used their phone and called 911. Then I called both our parents.
State troopers suspects due to the age of our van it will be totalled. Great.
State trooper was super nice, to us any
He asked me as he was taking DH to his cruiser to talk if I was OK and I replied, "Yes, just mad." Trooper shakes his head in agreement and says, "And it's broad daylight, too!" while nodding his head in the direction of the other guys car.
Friends, this car was so smashed, I don't know HOW his airbags didn't deploy. He hit us, and then bounced backwards a good six feet. He tried to say he was only going 20 MPH on impact, the state trooper said there is no way he was going that slow, more like 50-55. We had to remove a large chunk of his fender from under our van where it was wedged between the frame and our tire before we could get our van home. The officer let us drive the van home, but because the kid smashed out all our rear passenger side lights on impact, he marked it down as not road safe. Great. Just great.
He told us to get home and contact our insurance right away because the other kids insurance (or his parents as apparantly this was mom and dad's car) will have to cover a rental for us until our van is either fixed or replaced. I highly doubt they will be doing either.
The kid refused to give us his name or any of his insurance information when DH asked. All he said is, "I have really good insurance."
We're all pretty sore. No major injuries thank goodness that we are aware of. Our claims adjuster advised us to go get checked out just in case, but we're not decided on that yet.
And may I say, my old jalopy van sure can take a hit!!
My kids were freaked out. We had just filled all our water, picked up some rabbit feed, some lumber for my raised bed (totally blew my plans for this evening!), and some sand for my carrots. I was planning on coming home and starting on my raised bed and stuff.
We were slowing down to make a left hand turn, and I heard tires squealing. I was nonchalantly thinking, "Oh someone's going to get hit" and BAM it was us! It sounded like a bomb exploded. Next thing I know all five kids are screaming, I turned in my seat and asked are ya'll OK? and they said yes just scared. DH had already ripped off his seat belt and leaped out of the car (oh he was soooo mad) and by the time he got to the other guy, he'd decided (thankfully) to keep his cool. He asked him, "Did you see us?"
guy (kid really): yea but by that time it was too late to stop.
Dh: well are you hurt?
guy: no
DH walked back to our van, and since this happened infront of the home of someone DH formerly worked with, we used their phone and called 911. Then I called both our parents.
State troopers suspects due to the age of our van it will be totalled. Great.
State trooper was super nice, to us any
He asked me as he was taking DH to his cruiser to talk if I was OK and I replied, "Yes, just mad." Trooper shakes his head in agreement and says, "And it's broad daylight, too!" while nodding his head in the direction of the other guys car.Friends, this car was so smashed, I don't know HOW his airbags didn't deploy. He hit us, and then bounced backwards a good six feet. He tried to say he was only going 20 MPH on impact, the state trooper said there is no way he was going that slow, more like 50-55. We had to remove a large chunk of his fender from under our van where it was wedged between the frame and our tire before we could get our van home. The officer let us drive the van home, but because the kid smashed out all our rear passenger side lights on impact, he marked it down as not road safe. Great. Just great.
He told us to get home and contact our insurance right away because the other kids insurance (or his parents as apparantly this was mom and dad's car) will have to cover a rental for us until our van is either fixed or replaced. I highly doubt they will be doing either.
The kid refused to give us his name or any of his insurance information when DH asked. All he said is, "I have really good insurance."
We're all pretty sore. No major injuries thank goodness that we are aware of. Our claims adjuster advised us to go get checked out just in case, but we're not decided on that yet.
And may I say, my old jalopy van sure can take a hit!!
But you do have it all reported in case someone still needs care! 
