Trees, ditches, and side roads suck.
 

Coming back home from a friends this morning, I'm driving along this nice fairly open dirt road...

I'm coming up to an intersection, that has a little POS car at the stop sign (keep in mind, I have NO stop signs for my direction, as it's the 'main' road of that part)

Right as I'm about 10 - 15 feet away from the intersection, the car frickin' starts going, and I can see its tires spinning, so I know damned well what she was aiming for... She wanted a new car. (Without witnesses, if there's a young male vs. any aged female in an accident, it's automatically assumed, that the male caused the accident)

So I slam the brakes, crank the wheel, miss the stop sign by about 5 inches and sail off into the ditch... And the girl drives by, giving me a dirty look, like I did something wrong, and then drives off, doesn't even stop to make sure I'm okay or anything.

There must've been a piece of tree in the mud, or something, because some of the rubber on my brush guard is loose now, and I've got broken bumper fascia,at the drivers side tow hook.After I get some sleep, I'm going to take a closer look and see what else is toast.

And of course, AFTER the car is gone, a cop pulls up and asks me what the heck I thought I was doing in the ditch.

Yay for a good morning.

At least the truck seemed to drive just fine... Nothing feels wonky yet...

RE: Trees, ditches, and side roads suck.
 

I hate when that happens. Hopefully the damage isn't too bad.

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The plastic around the drivers side tow hook is broken loose... and my brushguard is bent... Hopefully it's not the truck frame... And the rubber strip on the drivers side brushuard post is loose, and flapping in the wind, lol.

Luckilly, I was only going 60km/h instead of the speed limit... So my turn didn't make me roll... And the power poles were on the other side of the road...

Hopefully I'll be able to bend my brushguardback into place easilly enough... Maybe with a couple tow straps, a cable jack, and a big rock...

So far, it doesn't seem like there's any important damage, only superficial... I'll know more once I get the mud cleaned off and the truck up on blocks.

RE: Trees, ditches, and side roads suck.
 

Thank goodness you have a brush guard. It may have damaged something more expensive had it not been there.

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I'm just happy it stayed rubber side down... the ditch was kinda steep, lol.

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Very true. Tires are always the best things to stay on.

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now comes the fun part, of getting a replacement valence! lol

and then, getting the thing painted...

RE: Trees, ditches, and side roads suck.
 

OMG!!! if some chick did that to me I woulda chased her downand slapped some sense into her!, then tie her down to some train tracks......thats absolutly crazy!

glad u and ur truck are o.k

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Well, I would have chased her down... Not to beat her up or anything like that, but just to ask WTF is wrong with her... Unfortunately, there's a lot of moisture in the ground, so that makes for muddy ditch...

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im no woman beater, but damn, she sure deserves it

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Man i cant stand people that do that crap. Had that happen to me and a buddy of mine while i was riding shotgun. This lady pulled out in front of us in some old toyota car and we were in a 79 suburban......i think you can guess what happens next. Her car is toast, the front of the truck is mostly fine and then she starts going on appolgizing and whatnot until the cops show, then its waterworks and blaming us claiming that we were doing at least 60 down this rutted dirt road. Luckily the cop wasnt stupid and stuck her with 70% of the blame and a $700 ticket i believe, we got off with a warning (i love small towns). At any rate that could have gone the other way and thats why i get soo angry when i hear about people like that. Its just so stupid. Its sux too that it had to be your truck, i gotta say you got one nice looking rig.

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I told my kids when they started to drive that the roads are full of bad drivers that will try to kill you, so watch out for eveything. People will come at you from the strangest places when you least expect it.

I actually like trees, ditches and side roads though.

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Me too... Just not crazy ladies in dented cars, lol... As long as nobody got hurt, I wouldn't have minded the crunch... But with no witnesses, it's pretty much guaranteed that the police are going to believe the girl when it comes to the accident report.

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Gotta love how the world works!
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