Just like the title says. Last night on my way home from work. Just driving down a busy three lane road at normal speeds (70 km/h) not sure what that is in Miles.) Well a stop light just turned green but most of the cars ahead of me where still at a full stop. With the traffic at the lights still at a crawl, the traffic around me starts to slow down. Every car is slowing down to about 30km/h, except for the Toyota Previa behind me. When I noticed that the van was coming at me at full tilt, I tried shifting my car down a couple of gears to gun it to the left turn lane. By the time i stepped on the gas, all i can hear was screetching tires. BAM! I was about to cry!
Got out of the car and ask the 17 year old girl if she was alright. Then I took a look at my bumper. To my surprise it wasn't that bad. A couple of scratches. A nice shape of a licence plate screw was showing on my bumper.
Poor girl though. She was scared. She took her mothers car. I don't think she was suppose to be driving. Anyways to make things short, I got the insurance info but I think they rather give me cash. My uncle is a mazda mechanic and says the damage is in the 300-400 dollar range (Canadian dollars)
He told me he'll take the bumper off and get it patched up. Then repaint it.
Think i should get the whole bumper replaced?
Anyways here some pics.
Got out of the car and ask the 17 year old girl if she was alright. Then I took a look at my bumper. To my surprise it wasn't that bad. A couple of scratches. A nice shape of a licence plate screw was showing on my bumper.
Poor girl though. She was scared. She took her mothers car. I don't think she was suppose to be driving. Anyways to make things short, I got the insurance info but I think they rather give me cash. My uncle is a mazda mechanic and says the damage is in the 300-400 dollar range (Canadian dollars)
He told me he'll take the bumper off and get it patched up. Then repaint it.
Think i should get the whole bumper replaced?
Anyways here some pics.