Originally Posted by
ShaneB
Thanks
We definitely won that battle. A larger vehicle than a nissan versa and things would of been VERY different. Nobody sitting in the seat at the point of impact however every other seat was occupied. Got lucky there. My son got the worst (far back seat by driver side wheel) with a small bruise on his arm but that was it. No airbags deployed in our vehicle, 3 went off in theirs. I believe they hit us going about 35-40mph.
$11k in damage and a month later the van is back on the road. Crazy thing is... that door still opened/closed fully under its own power.
Seeing others posts... I got REALLY lucky I guess. We were stopped at a red light (first car), turned green and I started to go, by the time I noticed the white car out of the corner of my eye it was too late, I swerved to the right a split second before impact but it was unavoidable. It wasnt like they were trying to beat a yellow either, just blatantly ignored the red. Fortunately the 2 vehicles who were behind me pulled off and stayed until the police came and gave statements backing up my side of the story (we had the green light). The other driver tried to say they had the green but ultimately were given a ticket. Our car got fixed, theirs I`m sure was totaled.
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