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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Hope that you're healing well after this accident.</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Vehicles are replaceable, people are not.</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Your point about installing a dash cam is well taken.</span>
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Driving home on Friday night at about 11:30pm we got sideswiped by an impaired driver who had already sideswiped three other vehicles on I-25 SB between Broadway and University. The driver of the van high-tailed it down Buchtel westbound with sparks flying from the left rear wheel (tire had blown). Quite the sight to see and a bit of fancy driving by a drunk in an 80's Chevy panel (work) van.
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Thankfully, no one was physically injured and the damage was confined to just the vehicles. The knucklehead damaged the passenger side of a white Tesla, the Driver's side of a Hyundai, and the driver's side of a new Lincoln. Our 2007 4Runner sustained just very minor damage to the left front fender. We got lucky.
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A dash cam would have been a great thing to have because the events of the accident happened all too fast to take it all and remember it for the statement we had to give the DPD officers.
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After DPD had gotten everyone's statements, gave us the case numbers, and let us go, we headed home; but just a few miles south at Hampden, we had to detour due to a serious accident that closed SB University and WB Hampden.
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Good grief, what a way to end the evening!
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Be safe out there,
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John Dawson
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On 12/08/2023 5:54 PM MST Garrie Fox via RMC-List <rmc-list@corvair.org> wrote:
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I purchased <span class="ydp60527829u_b ydp60527829en_0 ydp60527829c1AVi73_6FsP ydp60527829c1AVi7H_6LEV ydp60527829C4_Z29WjXl" data-test-id="message-from"><span class="ydp60527829D_F ydp60527829rtlI_dz_sSg" data-test-id="email-pill">Nielsen'</span></span>s BMW wagon they offered for sale since I waited months for a shop to weld up my Corvair engine head.
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Last month it probably saved me from even more serious injury.
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I was stopped and waiting in the center turn lane just two blocks from home. A scofflaw driver was using the same center turn lane to pass all the southbound traffic. He collided with the rear of the wagon. It was declared a total loss.
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Quite amazing that a 2006 Chevrolet Malibu going 50+ MPH had the kinetic energy I felt while <em>firmly</em> belted in.
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It Broke my lower back.
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Two suggestions for everyone in this rat race traffic we are enduring now:
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1. Have a dash cam type camera both front and rear in every vehicle you drive.
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2. Do not place anything in the rear seat that would be thrown about the inside of the vehicle.
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Couple of pics for emphasis on my suggestions.
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Regards,
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Garrie Fox
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