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I'm driving home from the Doc's, sick as a dog with a
miserable head cold. A mico-squall hits, visibilty drops
to like 10 feet with torrential rains, thunder and
lightning, etc.

I'm in the slow lane of the expressway doing maybe 5 to 7
mph in tight bumper to bumper traffic. A giant sneeze hits
me and I plow into the Mini Copper in front of me. She
smacks into the SUV in front of her, and my Wrangler gets
hit from behind. The Mini is squashed in the middle and
requires towed away.

The cops won't get out of their car until the storm passes
1/2 hour later. Yours truly gets hung for the entire chain
reaction and the guy who hit me skeedaddled.

Blargh!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/nopity.gif

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Man, sorry to hear about that. I'm glad you're ok. At least it was a Wrangler instead of the crypt car!

A giant sneeze?
 
I've often wondered about that myself and now I know. Good thing you are OK.
 
Glad your physically OK. Hope it dosen't cause a lot of Insurance headaches for you.
man o man...
Did that driver behind you happen to look like a certian DPO we all know and love???
 
I thought in a chain reaction accident the last guy in line gets blamed. Are you shure that at the time of your sneeze he didn't make contact and launch you into the Mini? He's gone so it becomes an uninsured motorist claim. It's plausable. You might not have even felt the contact because you were sneezing at the time. Glad your OK. Phil
 
Bummer. I rear-ended someone when I was a kid - very low speed, no one hurt - and was terrified at the thought of going into work the next day and the abuse I'd take from the guys there, (I was the boss's son & a "college kid" working in a large parts department at a Chevy dealers). Small town - I knew they'd all know.

I walked in & was immediately confronted by the toughest guy there, a WW2 Marine vet of several Pacific island invasions. His first words - through his always-present cigar - were "So how fast was this idiot going when he backed into you?" No one dared hassle me after that.

In my case, not much happened legally - my insurance rates didn't even change. Different times, maybe.

In your event- everyone survived, weather was a major factor, and with luck the dust'll settle quickly.
 
Yup, everyone was just fine. The old lady in the
front most car b-tched at me (in English) for living
on the island for 18 years and NOT being able to speak
Spanish. I answered her (in Spanish) that "I speak Spanish
very well, thank you very much. " She turned away in a huff.

I've got great Mini Cooper bumper imprints in my Wrangler's
front rock bumper. I'm thinking about getting a small mini
Cooper decal and pasting it on my driver's side door under
the mirror! Like the fighter planes in WWII.

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Tinster said:
I've got great Mini Cooper bumper imprints in my Wrangler's
front rock bumper. I'm thinking about getting a small mini
Cooper decal and pasting it on my driver's side door under
the mirror! Like the fighter planes in WWII.

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/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif There's a Mini at my kid's school with a custom DMV plate that reads: "SUV BAIT" very appropriate here!
 
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