F-150 Did a Mustang

"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion) 06/26/2019 at 13:10 • Filed to: None

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This morning on my way to work I came upon an accident. Single vehicle, single occupant, no injuries, but the vehicle - a last-gen F-150 - was damaged and immobile. Fluids all over the ground and the right front wheel was properly borked.

I’m no vehicular forensics expert, but I’m pretty sure I know what happened.

The driver was (most likely) entering the state road (that I was on) from a side road; both are paved. The side road enters the other at a sharp angle going in the direction he was going, and it starts up a big hill in that direction as well. The side road ALSO comes down a very steep hill, then goes a little below the grade of the state road before the junction, so you kind of go up over a hump at an angle as you enter the state road . THEN, there’s a little bridge right there immediately after the intersection, which has been recently - and hastily - repaired, so it’s a big bump up and back down as you go over it. Here’s a picture:

SO. I think the driver came down the hill, looked both ways (there’s pretty good visibility both ways), saw it was clear and hit the corner a little hot. Maybe got a little wheelspin because RWD pickup, then hit the bump up onto the road, or that of the little bridge, and around came the rear end. The truck hit the guardrail of the bridge on the right front and stopped right there. No airbags deployed that I could see, and the driver was still inside and talking to another person who was just ahead of me. He nodded and gave an OK sign, so I didn’t stop.

A little too much throttle in a light-rear-end RWD vehicle and another factor pushing that rear end up and around, BAM. Pulled a Mustang.

Oops.

Maybe they can get a new truck from that place in Alabama...

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > functionoverfashion 06/26/2019 at 13:46

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No Casualties=No Mustang

Ash78, voting early and often > functionoverfashion 06/26/2019 at 14:11

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Yep, I think your CSI episode just ran exactly two minutes and CBS is canceling you.

Pickup truck + bump + throttle = trouble

functionoverfashion > Ash78, voting early and often 06/26/2019 at 14:17

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But this is the most exciting thing to happen in my town today! Yesterday it was when they were digging up my road all the way across at once. The “detour” was literally through two neighboring homes’ driveways/yards. Granted, it was because of these houses that the road was dug up, so they didn’t just send traffic through an innocent bystander’s yard. But anyway. It’s a quiet town haha

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Ash78, voting early and often 06/26/2019 at 15:07

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* Adds 58 minutes of commercials*

Chariotoflove > Ash78, voting early and often 06/26/2019 at 15:16

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So, you’re saying another spinoff ends tragically.

Thank you, I’m here all week.

Ash78, voting early and often > Chariotoflove 06/26/2019 at 15:34

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One of the best episodes of Breaking Bad was called Granite State .

dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford > functionoverfashion 06/26/2019 at 19:58

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It’s a good post but how does it have almost 15k views?

Kinja gonna kinja I guess 

functionoverfashion > dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford 06/27/2019 at 08:12

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I was thinking the same thing; it wasn’t that interesting nor did it generate much discussion, hardly any - not that I expected it to, just... yeah, kinja.

eta: also, just by virtue of being “featured” or whatever it’s now over 30k views, perpetuating the Legend. Look out Blackbird... 

dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford > functionoverfashion 06/27/2019 at 10:13

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Congratulations!

I know a similar thing happened to me on my post asking about the Infiniti G35/37, it was a quick paragraph and a google picture and last I saw it was at 3k views, but that one at least had a lot of discussion 

functionoverfashion > dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford 06/27/2019 at 11:29

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haha well, I’d rather it happened with posts that I spend time on... but you never know what people will click on, or how Kinja will handle it .