"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
07/13/2016 at 01:57 • Filed to: story time, car crash
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"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
07/13/2016 at 01:57 • Filed to: story time, car crash | 3
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Witnessed car accidents edition. Inspired by a comment by themanwithsauce , why I have automotive PTSD around 6th gen Accords.
In high school I was friends with a girl who drove a 6th gen Accord. She was a terrible driver. It wasn’t long after getting the car that she was in her first small accident. This trend continued for several months until the front end damage to her car was severe enough that the hood no longer latched.
As such, the hood was ingeniously ( /s ) rigged shut with a bungie cord. This solution worked well enough as the car was driven only about a quarter mile back and forth to school.
One day a group of us decided to go to the movies, I think it was Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Our small group of 6 people wouldn’t fit into 1 car, so 4 of us jumped into my TA and one guy joined her in the Accord.
We drove there without issue, watched the movie, and left in the same cars. I followed her onto highway 70, laughing and talking with my car full of friends.
Explosion!
At 70mph the bungie cord holding the hood down had failed. The hood had flung open into the windshield, throwing a cloud of glass dust everywhere. The Accord is now blindly weaving around the highway. From my car I start yelling directions trying to keep them from hitting anything
Fun fact: no matter how loud you yell, people in another car can’t hear you.
They narrowly avoid hitting one of those massive green exit signs and get the car stopped on the shoulder. I stopped behind them and ran up to check on them. There was glass everywhere, but luckily nobody was hurt or even cut.
Cops were called, and parents arrived. Apparently, she had been told not to drive on the highway (for obvious reasons). The force of the hood impact was pretty impressive, smashing the front foot of the roof pretty badly. More impressively, they repaired the car.
Fast forward about a month or two, shortly after the Accord she was repaired she got T-boned in an intersection and totaled the car. That’s how she got her nickname:
“Car Crash Katie”
Her parents bought her another Accord which she also wrecked multiple times, eventually leading to her current collapsed suspension Grand Marquis.
You know the dumbest part of this story is though? Shortly after getting her second Accord, we started dating. Ultimately, it’s a good thing that didn’t last, because I couldn’t have knowingly sentenced more cars to their untimely deaths.
PanchoVilleneuve ST
> Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
07/13/2016 at 02:23 |
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All this story did was make me feel old, having a bad high school car experience take place in the same time as Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World was in theaters.
My bad high school car experience involved an early 90s Cadillac Eldorado (which was the driver’s grandfather’s pride and joy), the egging of the driver’s ex-girlfriend’s house, and a surprisingly immediate car chase from the ex-girlfriend’s dad that wound up with a bit of off-road driving across a golf course that ended when we ramped into a small pond and had to swim to shore.
Sovereign, Purveyor of Coupes
> Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
07/13/2016 at 02:24 |
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Yikes. Some people just don’t understand the consequences of poorly piloting a 3-4k pound mass of steel and plastic. Our license tests should be far more stringent if you ask me.
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Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
07/13/2016 at 02:32 |
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Haha, Eldo ramping sounds way more intense. Also, I just graduated college so... yeah I’m not terribly old yet.
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Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
> Sovereign, Purveyor of Coupes
07/13/2016 at 02:32 |
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Yep.
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PanchoVilleneuve ST
> Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
07/13/2016 at 02:35 |
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I envy your youth. I was stupid, but not stupid enough.
Honeybunchesofgoats
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
07/13/2016 at 05:10 |
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All this story did was make me feel old, having a bad high school car experience take place in the same time as Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World was in theaters.
But... that was only 2010...
shop-teacher
> Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
07/13/2016 at 08:39 |
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I think we all went to high school with people liked that. There was a girl in my high school who wrecked her Lebaron convertible seven times. Another girl with rich divorced parents who got two cars for her 16th birthday, one of which she rolled a week later.
Then there was the other rich kid who nearly totaled his Blazer twice, before finishing the job by wrapping it around a tree. What did his parents do? Buy him a Camaro, of course. That met its end when he somehow landed on TOP of a fire hydrant. I saw him a couple years later driving an Escalade EXT.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
07/13/2016 at 09:40 |
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She crashed a car multiple times and her parents still got her a new one
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Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/13/2016 at 14:11 |
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I graduated high school in 2011.
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Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/13/2016 at 14:13 |
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Yeah, although I was her primary transportation for about 3 months
Svart Smart, traded in his Smart
> Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
07/14/2016 at 09:55 |
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My automotive PTSD comes from early Civic Hybrids in opal silver blue, thanks to an emotionally manipulative couple I once considered friends.