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ScovillesFX4
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There's been an unfortunate spike in ranger carnage threads recently and it got me thinking about my own bad turn last July. So here's the short version of the accident and a few shots i took of my baby at the towing company a couple days later.
Was on my way into town last July 4th with my brother-in-law around 2:18 that afternoon and came to a 4-way stop intersection that I travel through regularly. The 4-way is at the top of a hill from two directions but there is plenty of signage warning drivers of the upcoming stop. I stop at the intersection and check each direction as usual. No approaching traffic so I pull out into the intersection and I see this truck in my peripheral vision a fraction of a second before he T-bones me.
I got hit by a 1986 F-150 going between 50-55 mph. The guy was either on his G-D cell phone or otherwise not paying attention to what he was doing. He must have come up over the rise at the precise moment I looked to check the other direction. He never saw me until he was right on top of me and never applied his brakes, so he had to be distracted by something. After seeing him coming only an instant before he hit me, the next thing I knew I was in a ravine trying to draw a breath and the smoke from the airbag was still rising in front of me.
I'm very lucky in a great many respects. The fire station was only a quarter-mile away, the knucklehead had insurance, I only had to spend 3 hours in the hospital, I was shaken up pretty good but nothing was broken (my bro-in-law got a cracked rib from me sliding into the 60/40 console and driving it into his ribs), and most of all, I'm lucky that Ford builds good cabs on these Rangers. I took these images at the tow yard so my options for different shots was limited but here are the pictures of my old girl. I love my 2003 but this truck and I had 9 1/2 very good years together and I had just put a new head unit and speakers into her less than two weeks before she got hit.
Here you can see that he put the corner of his F-150 right into my door.
I'll post some pictures of my 2003 one of these days but since we all have a weird mixture of horror/fascination seeing ruined Rangers, I thought I would contribute to the conversation.
Was on my way into town last July 4th with my brother-in-law around 2:18 that afternoon and came to a 4-way stop intersection that I travel through regularly. The 4-way is at the top of a hill from two directions but there is plenty of signage warning drivers of the upcoming stop. I stop at the intersection and check each direction as usual. No approaching traffic so I pull out into the intersection and I see this truck in my peripheral vision a fraction of a second before he T-bones me.
I got hit by a 1986 F-150 going between 50-55 mph. The guy was either on his G-D cell phone or otherwise not paying attention to what he was doing. He must have come up over the rise at the precise moment I looked to check the other direction. He never saw me until he was right on top of me and never applied his brakes, so he had to be distracted by something. After seeing him coming only an instant before he hit me, the next thing I knew I was in a ravine trying to draw a breath and the smoke from the airbag was still rising in front of me.
I'm very lucky in a great many respects. The fire station was only a quarter-mile away, the knucklehead had insurance, I only had to spend 3 hours in the hospital, I was shaken up pretty good but nothing was broken (my bro-in-law got a cracked rib from me sliding into the 60/40 console and driving it into his ribs), and most of all, I'm lucky that Ford builds good cabs on these Rangers. I took these images at the tow yard so my options for different shots was limited but here are the pictures of my old girl. I love my 2003 but this truck and I had 9 1/2 very good years together and I had just put a new head unit and speakers into her less than two weeks before she got hit.
Here you can see that he put the corner of his F-150 right into my door.
I'll post some pictures of my 2003 one of these days but since we all have a weird mixture of horror/fascination seeing ruined Rangers, I thought I would contribute to the conversation.
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