We're off to Cananada on Saturday morning so I decided to throw the driver seat and brakelights into the Cuda to take it for one last spin before we're gone for two weeks. I think I'm a pretty cautious driver and tend to spend alot of time with my eyes on the rear view when I'm stopped on the road for any reason. It paid off today.
The car 6 in front of me stopped for whatever reason and so did all the cars behind him without a problem. I stopped a good car length and a half behind the car in front of me and started watching my rear view. The car behind me doesn't seem to be slowing down so I start looking for somewhere get the car out of the way. I finally decide to cut across the oncoming lane which was empty and pull into the parking lot for a pet supply place. The tires spin and then bite and I get out of the way at about the same time that the lady who was behind me slams into the car that was in front of me and sets off a chain reaction of 4 or 5 cars hitting the car in front of him.
It was no million dollar boo boo like in Monte Carlo, but it probably crept into the 20 or 30 thousand dollar range.
The lady that caused the accident got out of her car, hung up her phone after the shock wore off. Nobody was seriously hurt, but I'm sure there are going to be a few sore necks tomorrow.
I had almost the same thing happen when I was still up in Canada and driving a 91 Sonoma. The guy behind me had his brake lines blow out and my truck didn't get clear in time. I did manage to point it out of the lane so that when I got hit my truck launched past the guy in the brand new pick up in front of me and left skid marks 20 feet or so from the point of impact. New truck guy didn't even bother to pull over to see if I was ok, even though the box of my truck was mashed into the cab.
