Lincoln's accident

Yesterday I did not post any of the details of Lincoln's accident because at the time I didn't have any. I wasn't exactly sure what had happened and I hadn't seen the damage to the truck yet.

Where we live you have to go around a clover leaf entrance ramp in order to get on the highway going northbound. Lincoln was the last of four cars headed up the entrance ramp and was checking to his left to judge the traffic in the right lane with which he would be merging. The lane was empty except for one truck a ways back that he would have to deal with as he merged. The cars in front of him should have been fine for merging into the right lane except for some completely unknown reason the first car in the line came to a stop instead of merging into traffic. Why the hell do people do that??? You never, never, NEVER stop when merging onto an interstate because you need speed in order to do that safely and not cause everyone in the right lane to have to slam on their brakes once you do decide to merge. And you sure as hell don't have any reason to do it WHEN THE LANE YOU'RE MERGING INTO IS EMPTY!!!!!

Anyway, the idiot in the first car stopped at the top of the entrance ramp. The other cars in the line, probably doing the same as Lincoln and looking at the right lane over their left shoulder so that they could merge with oncoming traffic, all stopped suddenly as well when they noticed that the idiot who never have been given a drivers license in the first place had stopped FOR NO APPARENT REASON. Unfortunately Lincoln, being the last car, was just coming around the final bend in the cloverleaf and the three cars lined up and STOPPED FOR NO REASON would have been right there. He tried to swerve to miss the car that was stopped in front of him and unfortunately clipped her pretty good with his right front bumper pushing her into the car in front of her.

Car #1 - the jackass - took off and kept driving after setting in motion this series of events. His car was never touched. May bad karma bite him in the ass and cause him horrible inconvenience of either a physical or financial sort in the near future. And may his license be stripped from him forever for being an idiot who should never have been on the road in the first place.

Car #2 - A Caddy. Made of good old Detroit steel and barely had a mark on it despite Lincoln's impact with car # 3 causing car # 3 to hit the Caddy.

Car # 3 - A Mazda. Not sure how much damage was done to the Mazda but Lincoln said it was fairly substantial. There was the back end damage caused by Lincoln's large pick-up and then he said that her car sustained far more front end damage from hitting the Caddy than rear end damage caused to the Caddy.

Car # 4 - Lincoln's Toyota Tundra. The front bumper was pushed in and twisted to such a degree that it popped his front right tire and had the bumper up under the wheel well. Lincoln had the truck towed to a local shop and they were able to pull out his bumper, put on his spare tire, and replace his broken light bulbs in order to make the car drivable. The good news is that Lincoln's truck is already fairly battered so it doesn't look that bad. It's not like he'll be driving around with half of his truck missing.

The real question is going to be how much damage was done to the Mazda and what this is going to do to our insurance. All of that remains to be seen.