I got rear-ended on Saturday. I’ve had the truck about a year and already its been tagged in the back twice. The first time was minor and only resulted in a small scratch to my hitch. Last Saturday was a bigger deal. I was at a stop light and looked in my rear-view mirror and saw a gray Celica coming up on me fast. The driver was looking somewhere else and didn’t realize how fast he was coming up until it was too late. He slammed on the brakes and swerved to the right but ended up hitting my back end. I could see the whole thing coming through my mirror which made it tough because I knew I was going to be hit but I had nowhere to go. I was surprised that he didn’t push me into the car in front of me.
We pulled into a plaza and I looked at my car to see the back passenger side bumper was all dinged up. Other than that though there wasn’t too much damage. His car was a different story. The front corner of his car was smashed up pretty bad. He couldn’t open his driver’s side door and it looked like part of the car was wedged into the wheel. He ended up having to get the car towed.
We swapped insurance and I went to a collision center today to get an estimate. The preliminary cost is around $1400 and I should be without the truck for about a week. I won’t have to pay anything which is good since it wasn’t my fault but what a pain. No one was hurt either which is always a good thing.
Now I’ve got to get in touch with his insurance and work out the cost for a rental car and see if they need to inspect the car before I get it fixed.