Ponyman66
Yak, yak, yak
OR "How not to start the New Year"!
Some Stangfixers have met my youngest child, my 20 year old son Micheal. He has generally been a good kid and the guys who've met him at MBB every year have gotten along well with him. Well (technically) Sunday morning at 1:00am my daughter came into our room and said "Mom, Dad you gotta get up. Micheal's been in an accident". Yes, that phone call every parent expects to eventually get, but dreads getting! He had been at work and then stopped by his girlfriend's house before coming home. He normally has to be home by 1:00am. Yeah I know, he's 20, but he had his mom's car, lives at home and we got rules! Anyhow, we jumped out of bed and got dressed. Where he had his accident was just over a mile from home. The trooper was already on scene, surprisingly! My son was okay, suffering only a bloody nose from the airbag deploying and a seat belt abrasion on his collar. My wife's car wasn't so lucky. A good friend works at one of local Ford dealers in the body shop. I stopped by today and he gave me a copy of the estimate. Looks like my wife's Edge is on the way to the big parking lot in the sky. The car did it's job and took the brunt of the impact. My son said he was going between 60-80mph. The road was a wet, two lane road with a 90 deg turn...and a 45mph limit. I looked at everything and figured he was actually at about 55mph. A few feet further off the road and he would have missed the big pine tree. His excuse? He didn't want to be late getting home, but he knew my wife and I had gone to bed and didn't want to wake us. I credit him with his honesty and trying to honor his curfew. I made it quit clear, as did the accident, rushing didn't save anything!
Here's what the car looks like:
The left front wheel is actually split into three separate pieces. The strut tower is driven back, the lower control arm snapped, the axle shaft broke, the whole front was torn off, the firewall, rocker panel, dash structure, A pillar and driver's floor pan are all bent. The car took one heck of a wallop! Needless to say, my son's bank account just went to a zero balance!
Some Stangfixers have met my youngest child, my 20 year old son Micheal. He has generally been a good kid and the guys who've met him at MBB every year have gotten along well with him. Well (technically) Sunday morning at 1:00am my daughter came into our room and said "Mom, Dad you gotta get up. Micheal's been in an accident". Yes, that phone call every parent expects to eventually get, but dreads getting! He had been at work and then stopped by his girlfriend's house before coming home. He normally has to be home by 1:00am. Yeah I know, he's 20, but he had his mom's car, lives at home and we got rules! Anyhow, we jumped out of bed and got dressed. Where he had his accident was just over a mile from home. The trooper was already on scene, surprisingly! My son was okay, suffering only a bloody nose from the airbag deploying and a seat belt abrasion on his collar. My wife's car wasn't so lucky. A good friend works at one of local Ford dealers in the body shop. I stopped by today and he gave me a copy of the estimate. Looks like my wife's Edge is on the way to the big parking lot in the sky. The car did it's job and took the brunt of the impact. My son said he was going between 60-80mph. The road was a wet, two lane road with a 90 deg turn...and a 45mph limit. I looked at everything and figured he was actually at about 55mph. A few feet further off the road and he would have missed the big pine tree. His excuse? He didn't want to be late getting home, but he knew my wife and I had gone to bed and didn't want to wake us. I credit him with his honesty and trying to honor his curfew. I made it quit clear, as did the accident, rushing didn't save anything!
Here's what the car looks like:
The left front wheel is actually split into three separate pieces. The strut tower is driven back, the lower control arm snapped, the axle shaft broke, the whole front was torn off, the firewall, rocker panel, dash structure, A pillar and driver's floor pan are all bent. The car took one heck of a wallop! Needless to say, my son's bank account just went to a zero balance!
