Hope you and your friend recover soon! As for the other drive, Hmmmmm
I'll be nice and say same for him. Shame we lost a Dak to a jerk diver.
Don Mallett
2000 QC SLT 4.7L Auto
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On 5/27/2011 4:38 AM, M.B. wrote:
>
>
> Friend of mine and I were in his 2000 Dakota headed to the hardware
> store around 9pm tonight. We were making a free left turn across a
> major arterial, and just as we were broadside to oncoming traffic I
> saw light glint off black paint. I started to yell "Look out!" but
> only got out the "Look" part out before some idiot in a late model
> black Toyota with his headlights off (not even parking lights!)
> slammed into the passenger side door of the truck where I was
> sitting. He hit us so hard we spun in a 180 degree arc across traffic
> and ended up with our REAR bumper smashed into the front bumper of a
> lady who was waiting to make a right turn on to the arterial we were
> crossing, blowing out the rear passenger side tire and pulling it half
> off the rim.
>
> I hauled myself across the truck and out the driver's side with the
> help of my friend. I stood there coughing on airbag fumes and waited
> for the cops to show up. The lady we hit with our rear bumper took
> one look at the side of the truck and told me I needed to go to the
> hospital asap to get checked out. I looked, and due to past
> experience, immediately pulled my cell out and took pictures:
>
> http://www.moparhowto.com/pictures/2000-Dakota-Accident/pass_side01.jpg
> http://www.moparhowto.com/pictures/2000-Dakota-Accident/pass_side02.jpg
> http://www.moparhowto.com/pictures/2000-Dakota-Accident/pass_side03.jpg
>
> As far as I can tell in #2 the guy hit hard enough to either bend the
> frame into a "U" or shear the cab to frame bolts. A fire department
> paramedic showed up first, asked if we were all ok, where we were
> sitting, etc. He found out I was in the passenger seat of the truck
> and took a look at that side and immediately had me stand with my
> hands on the bedrail of the truck and used his hands to immobilize my
> neck and told me to stand still. Then the ambulance showed up and
> they put me in a neck brace and strapped me to a backboard where I
> stood and hauled me to the ER.
>
> I must say, you get quicker service in the ER when you show up in an
> ambulance. They checked me out and x-rayed me so much I probably glow
> in the dark now. A few hours later they discharged me with pain
> killers and muscle relaxants and bumps and bruises all over. I'm home
> now, very lucky that that Dakota was able to absorb a Toyota T-boning
> it at 45+mph. The Dakota, sadly, is totaled, though it was still
> running until we turned it off. Thank god for modern crash protection
> and the fact it wasn't a taller vehicle that hit us. The Toyota
> looked like someone dropped it nose first off a cliff.
>
> Drive safe everyone and TURN ON YOUR HEADLIGHTS. :)
>
> M.B.
>
>
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