Got T-boned Thursday afternoon. We're fine, the truck is fine, but the trailer is not so fine.
Day 3 of our planned slow trek to CT, we got whacked in Hardeville, SC. We were only about 1 1/2 miles from our planned overnight campground.
Driver with no license, probably no insurance either, was on her cell phone.
Not my fault, we had a witness who saw everything.
There was no traffic except for 4 or 5 vehicles waiting to turn in front of me in the left turn only lane. The next guy in line allowed me to go cause he saw me waiting so long. Then as I was almost halfway thru the intersection this woman decided she didn't want to wait and zoomed out of the turn lane and BAM!
I saw her coming out of the corner of my eye and hit the go pedal and that saved the truck and most of the trailer.
She never hit her brakes or tried to avoid. Luckily she was also not injured (but who knows what she'll do in a few days).
But we're done for a while. Friday we unloaded everything out of the trailer and into a uhaul trailer and brought it all back home to Fl yesterday.
Monday our insurance company will flatbed the trailer to their facility near Savanna and then an adjuster looks at it to determine if they repair or total it.
So right now we are in limbo.
But we are home and not injured. $hit happens
Day 3 of our planned slow trek to CT, we got whacked in Hardeville, SC. We were only about 1 1/2 miles from our planned overnight campground.
Driver with no license, probably no insurance either, was on her cell phone.
Not my fault, we had a witness who saw everything.
There was no traffic except for 4 or 5 vehicles waiting to turn in front of me in the left turn only lane. The next guy in line allowed me to go cause he saw me waiting so long. Then as I was almost halfway thru the intersection this woman decided she didn't want to wait and zoomed out of the turn lane and BAM!
I saw her coming out of the corner of my eye and hit the go pedal and that saved the truck and most of the trailer.
She never hit her brakes or tried to avoid. Luckily she was also not injured (but who knows what she'll do in a few days).
But we're done for a while. Friday we unloaded everything out of the trailer and into a uhaul trailer and brought it all back home to Fl yesterday.
Monday our insurance company will flatbed the trailer to their facility near Savanna and then an adjuster looks at it to determine if they repair or total it.
So right now we are in limbo.
But we are home and not injured. $hit happens