05shinka

I was sitting at a stop sign near my house, There was a 2001 Toyota Corrola in front of me waiting on traffic to clear. Suddenly I see his reverse lights come on and hear his tires chirp! I layed on the horn and tried to get it in reverse, Managed to start rolling back a little, but he scrapes the length of his passanger side down my car right around the drivers side headlight!

My initial reaction was "I'm gonna kick this Guy's A$$ !" The he gets out of the car and can harly walk. After a few minuites of conversation he says that he is 85 years old.

Lots of paint scrape and transfer on the bumper cover and headlight, warped my fender a little and pushed it back, broke my Clear Corner. Headlight still works but its out of alignment and shoots almost straight down.



Here is a cell phone pic....

Kaiser bun

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That sucks, too bad he wasn't a high school ricer so you could kick the sh*t out of him and ruin his driving record forever.

RyansRx8

Perfect reason why old ppl should not be driving...the same reason why 10 yr olds shouldn't drive

NautyOne

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Ouch dude that sucks.

At least insurance will cover for you.

05shinka

Yea... The guy only had liability on his vehicle.. so he is screwed... caved in the whole side of his car.. cant open either of the passanger side doors on his. I was actually supprised so much damage to his with so little to mine. I was also afraid the air bag was gonna deploy !

ZachLegend

damn dude, what an idiot. hopefully he loses his license. I'm sorry though! Wanna see me your passenger side clear corner?! haha

CarAndDriver

Sorry to hear. 85 year olds on the road - scary.

05shinka

And what is amamzing is that at 85YO he is chirping tires in reverse, in a corolla !

HockeyRX-8

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sorry to hear man

GearDriven

Did it look like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J488dQHjHt4

DarkLord7854

+1

10charlimit

05shinka

LMAO!... Not quite that bad, Thank goodness...

azzuro

^
Frightening, gotta watch those 85yr old Corolla speed demons.

mazdaverx7

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most importantly, no one was hurt. secondly, thats what insurance is for. hope everything work out well and hope you get your car fixed before the holidays.

rodjonathan

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hope you car gets fixed soon and that vid was hilarious

Gr8Bullet

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ouch! ive had that happen to me in a parking lot but i was parked. no note or anything. it sucked.

hope your car get fixed fast.

Bigbacon

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but why reverse? I don't get why, if the car was already in drive, would it magically end up in reverse?

05shinka

His house is on that corner, so he was gonna back, back into his driveway and go the opposite direction.

BTW.. Got the insurance check today...It should cover everything $3650.00

05shinka

Got my car back from the shop.. only took 3 days in the shop... had to wait about a month for the shop to have time to start on it. It looks like its brand new! shop buffed the whole car. The shop I took it to mainly restores old muscle cars. car looks better than it did when I bought it... no rock chips on the front.

Tweek

We need to have older people take the license test again at a certain age, and possibly a vision test. theyre almost worse than young drivers on the road

05shinka

I agree...

NotAPreppie

Doesn't help. My grandfather failed the vision test at the CA DMV and they gave him a license anyway.

klanham08

Ouch man, that is not a good way to start the week! Still have my old Amber Corners if you need some.

kersh4w

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my friend and i were at a light last night and the land rover in front of us just starts rolling back. my friend is driving (his parents caliber) and he is honking like crazy. he tries to get it into reverse (slow cvt) and then there isnt a lot of space behind us either and he cant back up a lot. still honking like crazy and rolling slightly back, the land rover still hit us. luckily he was already moving back so the impact was pretty slight. just broke his license plate frame.

still, wtf...

05shinka

Wow Kersh4w... the guy that hit me, I saw his reverse lights come on, and I heard his tire chirp....... Not sure which is worse... some guy not paying attention and letting his car roll back, or a guy not paying attention and doing a high power reverse..