Evan_in_CA
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- 2006 Mazda5 Touring
I think my wife totaled it. From what she told me and my mad CSI skills after seeing the damage to the car, it appears that it unfolded like this...
She had a sudden loss of pressure in the rear left tire that caused her to lose control and veer into a semi that was in the lane next to her. She hit the front wheel of the semi with the corner of the front bumper, and the lugnuts basically tore off a large portion of the front right of the car. The car bounced off of the semi's wheel but momentum caused it to pivot around, causing the right rear of the car to try to cram itself under the trailer. When the tires on the trailer met the rear of the car, it pretty much punted the entire thing like a football, back across the left lane, through a wide dirt center divide and into 2 lanes of oncoming traffic. Luckily nobody was in those lanes at the time so she got the two kids (2 and 4 y/olds) out and onto the median with the help of some Samaritans, and a couple of guys stopped to push the car out of the road.
I have a feeling it's probably totalled, what do you guys think?
Here's the front right corner, or what's left of it -
Here's the left side of the front bumper, you can see where the lugnuts of the semi wheel grabbed into it -
The back corner where it tried to get under the trailer and was then punted by the trailer tires -
The hatch opening is smashed in a good 2 inches on the right side, and quite deformed.
Roofline has a new curve in it -
The motor is crooked and the framerail is smashed into it. There's a good crease in the frame just behind the motor, it was impossible to get a good pic of though -
I'm just happy that my wife and kids are OK, we can always get a new car. I just hope she doesn't get an "at fault" from the insurance company for it, I can't afford that. Not sure if they blame a tire going flat on mechanical failure or if they try to say lack of maintenance. I just had them rotated and checked a week and a half ago when I put the Racingharts on and they tire place said they were good.
Here's a few more of the pics.
She had a sudden loss of pressure in the rear left tire that caused her to lose control and veer into a semi that was in the lane next to her. She hit the front wheel of the semi with the corner of the front bumper, and the lugnuts basically tore off a large portion of the front right of the car. The car bounced off of the semi's wheel but momentum caused it to pivot around, causing the right rear of the car to try to cram itself under the trailer. When the tires on the trailer met the rear of the car, it pretty much punted the entire thing like a football, back across the left lane, through a wide dirt center divide and into 2 lanes of oncoming traffic. Luckily nobody was in those lanes at the time so she got the two kids (2 and 4 y/olds) out and onto the median with the help of some Samaritans, and a couple of guys stopped to push the car out of the road.
I have a feeling it's probably totalled, what do you guys think?
Here's the front right corner, or what's left of it -
Here's the left side of the front bumper, you can see where the lugnuts of the semi wheel grabbed into it -
The back corner where it tried to get under the trailer and was then punted by the trailer tires -
The hatch opening is smashed in a good 2 inches on the right side, and quite deformed.
Roofline has a new curve in it -
The motor is crooked and the framerail is smashed into it. There's a good crease in the frame just behind the motor, it was impossible to get a good pic of though -
I'm just happy that my wife and kids are OK, we can always get a new car. I just hope she doesn't get an "at fault" from the insurance company for it, I can't afford that. Not sure if they blame a tire going flat on mechanical failure or if they try to say lack of maintenance. I just had them rotated and checked a week and a half ago when I put the Racingharts on and they tire place said they were good.
Here's a few more of the pics.