Fender Bent

If you hadn't noticed my Facebook and MySpace updates today, I was involved in a wreck. Just south of Downtown Louisville, a semi with a 53' trailer blindly merged into my lane, where I was driving. I hurriedly jumped into the left lane to avoid death by truck and found that my blind spot was full of black Dodge pickup. The rear quarter of my car and the front quarter of the pickup bounced off each other. I doubt the trucker even knew what he caused.

I pulled off the highway to see that the Dodge was slowing to a halt in the fast lane. Fearing the worst, I made my way to the truck to make sure the other driver was unharmed. I basically caught him as he stumbled from his truck. The man was roughly my age, inked, probably a wigger, and looked like he had half the money it'd take to buy a truck like that. A witness and a concerned citizen stopped to help, and were soon joined by a Metropolitan Police officer. The other driver was on the floor and seemed to be in pain, which I assumed at the time was an attempt to fuck me over for the insurance.

I told the officer my story: I was being crowded out of my lane by a semi and merged into the truck as a result. He walked me across the highway to my car to retrieve my license, registration, and insurance card, then told me to wait with my car until he could get the Dodge out of the way and talk to the witness. During this time, the man's mother arrived, followed by an ambulance. The man was loaded into the ambulance and his truck was moved. I talked to his mother and learned that he had a bad back, was probably fine, and was going to the hospital to make sure he was okay. She also said the witness confirmed my story. The officer returned to send me home, and gave me a number for the incident report. Neither I nor the driver of the Dodge received a citation, leading me to believe that the police listed this as a no-fault traffic accident.

The damage, while ugly, is entirely cosmetic. No mechanical damage resulted from the accident. Both doors on the driver's side are badly scuffed, and the rub strip on the rear door is damaged. The rear wheel was blackened, and the rear wheel well is badly wrinkled. Further inspection revealed that most of the "damage" to the doors was rubber transfer from the Dodge's tire, and a quick scrub with a Magic Eraser returned the wheel to pre-accident condition. I'll clean the rest of the car tomorrow to see what the real damage is. I'll take and post pictures if I get around to it.