...I got rear ended by a lifted Hummer...The guy said he fell asleep in traffic with his foot on the gas and woke up after he hit me...
..I didn't have my camera as I was running 1 cabinet out to Riverside at 2 in the afternoon...At 2:30 while stuck at a sigalert on the 91 @ Kraemer, the Hummer hit me but good...No warning and I didn't see it coming...
...The dash popped out, but everything else was secured...I just removed my floor jack and tall jack stands so I could haul this cabinet....I was wise enough to stow all the rig bags behind the front seat...
...I went to the doctor last night as the back of my head hit the seat so hard, it actually compressed the padding and hit the metal in the seat...This left a knot and an indentation of the seat frame below the knot...
...Initial look of the two vehicles showed the light tabs of his brush guard hit the top of my bumper and bent it...My receiver had the clevis holder in it, minus the clevis, and this pierced thru his front license plate...So, his brush guard was bent, my bumper was bent, and he had a hole in his license plate...
...My first thoughts was some buddy hit him but no one did...When I got out to look the first words out of my mouth when I saw the damage was," you hit me a lot harder than it looks...Are you ok??"...
..This morning I started the X to go pick up my prescriptions and it had a definite vibration...I went and picked up the prescriptions, Then headed over to a tranny shop where they charged me $80 bucks...They took it for a test drive and were able to feel the vibration...It was while you are in gear with the foot on the brake..If you gave it gas it was noticeable...:scratch:..Probably the tranny mount...
..They put it up on their rack and started looking it all over...We found out that his bumper hit my hitch hard enough to partially collapse the drivers side of the hitch mount...Their is a good 2" from the pass side hitch mount to the frame and on the drivers side, it buckled over to the frame...The rear axle seems to have shifted on the drivers side...They sent me over to a collision shop to get an estimate...The estimate was minus a lot as they will not put it on a rack until his insurance, or I, pay for it..
..Stats so far..
Me.. A little dazed....bump and swelling on the back of the head and a stiff neck..
Project X...
Bent bumper
Bent hitch
Tach not working as dash popped out at impact
Rear end out of alignment
Pulls to the left bad...RA seem to of held...:biggthump
Vibration at tranny
The tranny shop will send me pics tonight I hope and I will post them...He contacted his Insurance this a.m. after calling me to see if we could settle with out them...They are now waiting for his formal statement and said it looks like it's a cut and dry case...Hopefully, all I want is to make sure the Project X and I are fixed back to normal...
...2 good things though...I was going to take my Ranger and it would have been totaled...And, her highness was asleep in her bed so she was not hurt a bit in this accident...
..I didn't have my camera as I was running 1 cabinet out to Riverside at 2 in the afternoon...At 2:30 while stuck at a sigalert on the 91 @ Kraemer, the Hummer hit me but good...No warning and I didn't see it coming...
...The dash popped out, but everything else was secured...I just removed my floor jack and tall jack stands so I could haul this cabinet....I was wise enough to stow all the rig bags behind the front seat...
...I went to the doctor last night as the back of my head hit the seat so hard, it actually compressed the padding and hit the metal in the seat...This left a knot and an indentation of the seat frame below the knot...
...Initial look of the two vehicles showed the light tabs of his brush guard hit the top of my bumper and bent it...My receiver had the clevis holder in it, minus the clevis, and this pierced thru his front license plate...So, his brush guard was bent, my bumper was bent, and he had a hole in his license plate...
...My first thoughts was some buddy hit him but no one did...When I got out to look the first words out of my mouth when I saw the damage was," you hit me a lot harder than it looks...Are you ok??"...
..This morning I started the X to go pick up my prescriptions and it had a definite vibration...I went and picked up the prescriptions, Then headed over to a tranny shop where they charged me $80 bucks...They took it for a test drive and were able to feel the vibration...It was while you are in gear with the foot on the brake..If you gave it gas it was noticeable...:scratch:..Probably the tranny mount...
..They put it up on their rack and started looking it all over...We found out that his bumper hit my hitch hard enough to partially collapse the drivers side of the hitch mount...Their is a good 2" from the pass side hitch mount to the frame and on the drivers side, it buckled over to the frame...The rear axle seems to have shifted on the drivers side...They sent me over to a collision shop to get an estimate...The estimate was minus a lot as they will not put it on a rack until his insurance, or I, pay for it..
..Stats so far..
Me.. A little dazed..
..bump and swelling on the back of the head and a stiff neck..Project X...
Bent bumper
Bent hitch
Tach not working as dash popped out at impact
Rear end out of alignment
Pulls to the left bad...RA seem to of held...:biggthump
Vibration at tranny
The tranny shop will send me pics tonight I hope and I will post them...He contacted his Insurance this a.m. after calling me to see if we could settle with out them...They are now waiting for his formal statement and said it looks like it's a cut and dry case...Hopefully, all I want is to make sure the Project X and I are fixed back to normal...
...2 good things though...I was going to take my Ranger and it would have been totaled...And, her highness was asleep in her bed so she was not hurt a bit in this accident...
at least it looks like the hitch took a lot of the damage, and hopefully saved the frame.
