Well, I went and saw the car, its not as bad physically as he was making it out to be, but there is still quite a bit of damage. It looks like the front fender and door was the only thing hit at first look, but then when you get down to looking at it harder, your realize that the A pillar is bent up pretty bad, and if you look underneath the car you can see where the cradle has buckled, and then a whole lot of other undercarriage damage, Its definately a write off though.
I like what someone said a page or so back about how its quite easy to get a license to drive these things now, a quick course and you have it, and the guy he was talking to didn't know how to back up at the end of it. Calgary has been getting stupid with traffic problems, and people just not giving a shit anymore. People expect you to move. I get pushed around in my Dakota all the time by Civics and Camrys and Neon and whatever else, and then the worse are the people in the Exclades and Suburbans and Expeditions. People here thing that if you have a big vehicle, every small vehicle has to get out of your way, if its doesn't accelerate out of your way first. People don't care anymore. On average I have to avoide at least 3 accidents daily to and from work, its a 10 km drive, round trip. I nearly got smoked by a dump truck that ran a stop sign coming home from the pub tonight, lucky for me I was stopped and saw him. The point of this post wasn't to start a war against truckers. It was to tell people that a very good friend of mine could have easily lost his life by a careless trucker, just as I nearly lost my life by a careless trucker a few months ago. Just because you have the license doesn't mean your an expert driver. I'm not admitting that my buddy is completely 100% right in this, and I do agree with the ticket, but however, despite the fact that my buddy was on a bit of an angle the truck driver still hit him knowing that there was someone in front of him. From talking to my buddy tonight, it looks like this accident is ruling in his favor as the police who were looking at it understood the accident and had further accounts from witnesses. In the worst case scenario its will be ruled 50/50. I don't have anything against truckers, If it was a woman that hit him this post would have been titled "damn woman drivers" or if it was a bus that hit him it would have been titled "damn bus drivers", and so on. This post was more about the fortune of good news about someone being hit by a huge vehicle and surviving without injury, and it wasn't about the flaming of truckers. I'm sorry if this is they way it lead but I'm not pissed at truckers in general, I'm pissed at the one that forced me off the road, and the one that hit my friend. We both lost a new vehicle that we babied (even though mine was old, I had just had $6300 worth of body work done, and everything was new on it, or at the point of becoming new). Its sad to see something you worked hard on and invested a lot of time and money on, and to see it wrote off by someone not paying attention. This post is starting to get out of hand and is turning into a huge debate. I'm sorry I brought it up, I was just glad a friend of mine made it out and I wanted to share the good news.
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