texasbred

I knew eventually I would be rear ended living in the Houston area. I was just sitting still in traffic and got nailed. I saw them coming in the mirror then BOOM. Cops estimate she was doing around 55 mph and never touched the brakes. It was a small Mitsubishi Outlander, looked like it hit a brick wall.

First pic isn't a great angle, but the frame is buckled on both sides(worse on the driver's side), the bed is pretty much trashed and pushed into the bottom of the cab, you can also see the frame is twisted under the cab and the rear doors are warped pretty good.

Their insurance is All State, the guy should be looking at it tomorrow or Friday. I'm thinking the truck is totaled since it's not a high end upper model, the cash value is only in the 20's. The frame definitely took most of the force.

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This is the passenger side frame rail, the driver's side is worse and under the cab the frame is wrinkled in a few spots and you can see the twists in it.
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I'll get more pics later. I'm not sure if I'll be truck shopping soon or not though.

jstrain14

Hope you and any passengers were unharmed. Very unfortunate about the truck, best of look with repairs or replacement.

acdii

Its a total. Another member had the same kind of hit, but not as hard, nor as much damage and his was totaled out too. Best to just start looking now.

Get yourself checked out too, a hit from behind will sneak up on you, trust me, I know, been nearly 30 years since it happened to me, and I still can feel the pain in my back.


How someone traveling at that speed can not pay enough attention to hit the brakes is beyond me. Hope you have At Fault in your state, let their insurance cover it all.

texasbred

Everyone walked away. She had to deal with an airbag but she was walking around. Luckily I had no passengers. I went ahead and went to the ER mainly to have it documented, it hurts today though.

Also in Texas they are 100% at fault. I'm pretty sure it's totaled. I think I may have seen the thread with the other member that took the same type of hit. I'm thankful for my sake that it wasn't a heavier vehicle.

VTX1800N1

Sorry, but that wasn't a 55 MPH crash. Damage would have been much more extensive if she was doing 55 and hit you while you were stopped.

texasbred

I don't honestly know how fast she was going. I was stating what the deputies estimated. The frame took most of the force, also that little suv wasn't very tall. The damage on the tailgate is right inline with their hood height. That little thing was all smashed up.

They could have hit at a slower rate, I'm definitely not a crash expert. If I was I wouldn't turn wrenches and swing hammers for a living.

tjm623

Id take the officer on sight estimate over yours based on two photos. Outlanders don't sit high...frame looks toast easily could have popped back end up if it hit that hard. Which is why the actual body doesn't look that bad.

whats the point of calling BS on someone's brief description of accident events??

OP, glad to hear you're ok...hopefully you get what you owe and can get into another one easily!

VTX1800N1

I'm a LEO and investigate crashes all the time. A 55 MPH crash causes MUCH more damage than that. Just my 17 yrs of experience talking, FWIW. I've no doubt he's just relaying what the deputy on scene told him, but unless that deputy is a traffic crash reconstructionist and took numerous measurements of the impact point, debris field, and final resting points of both vehicles, it's just his guess. Looking at the damage on the rear of the truck, that's no where near a 55MPH crash. That's more like 20 MPH, likely much less. It doesn't take much speed to cause extensive damage. Modem vehicles are designed to crush during impact, absorbing the crash energy and thereby protecting the occupants.

VTX1800N1

This thread has pictures of a 40 MPH rear end crash into a truck. This is consistent with what I would expect to see at 40 MPH. Even if the Outlander went under the rear bumper of the OP's F150, there would be much more extensive damage. I would have expected to see the hitch and rear axle ripped completely off the truck in that case. Neither appears to have happened from the OP's pictures. A 55 MPH crash into a stationary vehicle is an incredibly violent event.

40 MPH rear end crash:

http://www.f150online.com/forums/201...ml#post5140416

acdii

I call BS on all speculators, There are no pics of the other vehicle, nor enough pics of the overall truck. That other truck posted is of a different design, and was hit on an offset angle. The OP's truck, based on his description suffered cab damage, the frame picture shows it telescoped into itself, and aluminum impacts differently from steel.

You can also clearly see the other vehicle went under the bumper by the way it is bent down. Bet that ball made a good impression too.

Until we see what the other vehicle looks like, we have nothing to base speed on, though I too agree, that isn't a 55MPH hit, nor a 45 MPH hit, just based on experience what hitting something at 45 MPH does, but that's with a much heavier vehicle. Somewhere I have pics of what a car looks like after being struck at 45 MPH, several times, by several vehicles.