The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk got in an accident yesterday

college kid in a Jeep rear-ended me at the traffic light. put my hitch in his bumper. truck didn't move at all, I only noticed it because of the noise it made. didn't bother with cops or insurance, felt sorry for the kid, no need to mess up his driving record or insurance premium.
but yeah, talking about safety, good old heavy american steel goes a long way

Is your 59 still yellow? How embarassing to have missed it at a light. Yeah, I like it. Wish my 58 GMC was a panel.
Larry

If you were in a car made in the 2000's you'd have your trailer hitch up under your knees.
Long live Stovebolts!

seetz, glad you weren't hurt pal. My wife understand rear end collisions. TWO in one year. One at a stop sign the other at a red light. One kid, one grown, up texting and talking. Both of them!!

Glad your OK,I hope the truck wasn't too badly hurt either.

If it had been the other way round, your truck would have had a Jeep hood ornament!

Accident ? I think that's a poor choice of words or an old term that needs to be retired.
Two vehicles coming together sounds like a collision, caused by bad driving or as in chipmunks case distracted driving.

I got a bumper sticker, it says...Hang Up, And Drive.

I have no use for people who think they can do both at the same time, and texting is worse.

Dan

I live in a college town. You would not beleive the number of rear enders and near misses that occur around hear from Sept. to May. Cell phones look like a growth on ears that don't seem to go away. And NJ has a ban on any cell phone use by the driver. It's useless and is hardly ever enforced.

i had something like that happen in my '66 years ago. an older lady was distracted and came up on stoped traffic in the left lane, way to fast. she swerved over to miss rearending them and rear ended me in the right lane. smart choice on her part. she totaled her car. but mine had a huge back bumper on my dump bed- did nothing to it! i felt it hit and she pushed the truck foward but not enough for me to hit the car in front of me. her car was toast, one more buick sent to the promise land!
the funniest thing was her insurance contacted me and insisted on paying for the scratches on my bumper. i told them the dump bed still worked and no harm done, but they sent me $500 anyway. i guess they didn't want me changing my mind and cryin' whiplash.

I've been thinking of a bumper sticker, but then I thought, if you miss a yellow 1 ton panel truck, you will never ever see a bumper sticker! actually, come to think of it, is there a bumper sticker that says "I eat Japanese for breakfast"?