daveSanborn
Active Member
Well..... 29 year old son returned from working overseas on Friday night. SOB surprised me as he wasn't supposed to land here until Monday evening. It worked out good as it gave us the weekend plus all of last week to hang out. It was the first time he'd seen his '57 F100 and Exile cycle that he bought and had delivered to my house. We dicked around with the toys for most of the week and then my other son (Tim) flew in on Thursday with his fiance in tow. We took the fiance around the area (her first time leaving the frozen tundra of NH) and did some light partying in the evenings.
On Saturday morning, they were all supposed to pile into his F100 and head North up to NH. They ended up laying around all day and didn't get on the road until 6PM.... not the best time to be embarking on a 15 hour drive. Around 4AM on the NJ TurnPike they hit some black ice and after a few 70 MPH donuts did a Dale Earnheart into the concrete guardrail/barricade. Fortunately no-one was injured. With the F100's rear bumper sticking out into the RH lane, they exited the truck and then stood there and watched as an F250 repeated their ice dancing manuevers and slammed into DS of the F100's rear bumper. The corner of the heavy steel rear bumper is now located closer to the rearend housing than it's stock location. While on the phone with my son and just a couple minutes after the accident, he started screaming for everyone to get out of the way as a tractor trailer truck came through the area completely sideways. He said it was like some special effect out of an action movie. Miraculously, no-one was injured and the F100 and F250 narrowly avoided any further damage from the traffic that kept sliding on by. They stood on the side of the Turnpike and waited their turn as the TurnPike Authority slowly made their way through all of the accident sccenes. The truck was towed to an impound lot just off of exit 8.
Son #1, son #2, and my future daughter-in-law have been sitting in a Marriott hotel room since the accident. There are no available rental cars in the area due the holidays and I suppose other accidents like theirs. Daughter-in laws father is on his way down from NH to pick them up right now.
Dad (me) will be heading up to NJ on Friday with the car hauler to pick it up and bring it home where we can get it fixed. He was carrying full coverage on the truck. The NADA Average retail is $13k. The High retail is $26k. His truck didn't have a scratch on it and was in mint condition. It's very unlikely that the truck will be totalled.
Never a dull moment around here!
On Saturday morning, they were all supposed to pile into his F100 and head North up to NH. They ended up laying around all day and didn't get on the road until 6PM.... not the best time to be embarking on a 15 hour drive. Around 4AM on the NJ TurnPike they hit some black ice and after a few 70 MPH donuts did a Dale Earnheart into the concrete guardrail/barricade. Fortunately no-one was injured. With the F100's rear bumper sticking out into the RH lane, they exited the truck and then stood there and watched as an F250 repeated their ice dancing manuevers and slammed into DS of the F100's rear bumper. The corner of the heavy steel rear bumper is now located closer to the rearend housing than it's stock location. While on the phone with my son and just a couple minutes after the accident, he started screaming for everyone to get out of the way as a tractor trailer truck came through the area completely sideways. He said it was like some special effect out of an action movie. Miraculously, no-one was injured and the F100 and F250 narrowly avoided any further damage from the traffic that kept sliding on by. They stood on the side of the Turnpike and waited their turn as the TurnPike Authority slowly made their way through all of the accident sccenes. The truck was towed to an impound lot just off of exit 8.
Son #1, son #2, and my future daughter-in-law have been sitting in a Marriott hotel room since the accident. There are no available rental cars in the area due the holidays and I suppose other accidents like theirs. Daughter-in laws father is on his way down from NH to pick them up right now.
Dad (me) will be heading up to NJ on Friday with the car hauler to pick it up and bring it home where we can get it fixed. He was carrying full coverage on the truck. The NADA Average retail is $13k. The High retail is $26k. His truck didn't have a scratch on it and was in mint condition. It's very unlikely that the truck will be totalled.
Never a dull moment around here!
