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09-29-2007, 06:12 PM #1
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just totalled a cobalt cuz it sucks
EDIT!!! here is the thread for the news article:
http://www.ls1.com/forums/showthread...06#post1049806
wlel... liek the title says. i was in a cobalt, goin about 55, a deer ran in front of me by like 20 feet or so (im bad with distances) and i slammed on the brakes, swerved once i let off the brakes, and could not regain control cuz i immediately lost control. in my third gen i could have gone 80 and had more control than that...
i was on a country road, and there was a field on one side and trees on the other... luckily i went towards the grass... but anyways, i went straight into the ditch and rolled 2 or 3 times.. im not sure how many cuz it all went so fast.
i was the only one in the car, and the scariest part was hearing the windshield smash. i ended up upside down in the ditch a little further up the road than where i initially hit cuz i rolled so much. rolled down (or up.. lol) the windows and crawled out. pulled out my cell and called my dad first, then an old man wlaking came running to help me, called 911, and said he was a paramedic so he helped keep me still and what not.
nothing hurt at the time... emts got there and thought i snapped my neck. i had slight pain in it that they were relaly worried about. at the hospital after all teh cat scans and what not we realized it was neck muscle damage and not bone so nothing toooooo serious...
other minor injuries like bleeding inside my arm from being pinched on sumthing some pretty big lumps on my head, and some shoulder pain.
walked out of the hospital a couple hours later with aspirin. i shouldnt be makin jokes, but im takin this as calmly as possible.
i never liked that car anyways i told that to all the emts and they laughed so hard.
i can testify.... seat belts save lives. i could feel it holding me in my seat the whole time i was rolling and had i not been wearing one i would have been dead... no doubt about it.
think about it... in a situation where i would have died without a seatbelt, i wore one and walked out of the hospital in a couple hours with some bruising and muscle damage needing only aspirin... pretty amazing
i hope i do not have to pay for any tickets or fines... but i may... idk how much our insurance deductible is but its pretty much totalled.
honestly... the worst parts about it all are that now that i sold my car and just totalled my moms, we only got 1 car in the house, i have to pay for the car (surprise) and i missed homecoming... my girlfriend was so disappointed i felt relaly bad, but what am i gonna do....
cliffnotes: i rolled my mom's cobalt, swerving for a deer and hitting a ditch. seatbelt saved my life
edit... pictures:
Last edited by ATCharming; 10-04-2007 at 08:44 PM. Reason: added pics
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09-29-2007, 06:20 PM #2
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Yeah, had to drive a rental cobalt for a week.. hated every SECOND of it!! So I know what you mean. You're lucky all you got was a sore muslce.. when our van rolled.. I SHATTERED my 7th vertebra... won't heal, and I get migrains from it.. and pretty much complete memory loss before the acciudent... took me 2 weeks to accept the people that took me home were my parents.. Had to relearn spelling, friends, everything.. it sucked! So just count yourself REALLY lucky!
-Geno
1983 Black WS6 "WindCharger"
1987 Black WS6 "WS87"
2002 Black WS6 "Silver Streak"
Sold the other four f-bodies
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09-29-2007, 06:22 PM #3
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holy shit kitt... thats insane.
i would assume with a van ud be much safer?
the cobalt blows in so many ways... the sound systems just about the only good part about it.
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09-29-2007, 06:25 PM #4
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Shitty pics, but this is the van... and me after 2 weeks when I finally came out of my coma...
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09-29-2007, 06:28 PM #5
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wow... how long ago was that?
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09-29-2007, 06:29 PM #6
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09-29-2007, 06:30 PM #7
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so u were 14?
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09-29-2007, 06:31 PM #8
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why swerve atc?
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09-29-2007, 06:32 PM #9
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09-29-2007, 06:35 PM #10
I am glad you are O.K., but dude, next time, HIT THE DEER!!!!!!!! I come across deer everyday, maybe 2-3 a day running out into the road, and I have hit many! HIT THE DEER!
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09-29-2007, 06:36 PM #11
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09-29-2007, 06:36 PM #12
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09-29-2007, 06:36 PM #13
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Yeah I was 14... mom was driving.
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09-29-2007, 06:37 PM #14
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09-29-2007, 06:39 PM #15
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No, if I was driving, I would have known where we were going, and not almost miss the exit and go off the road and roll...
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09-29-2007, 06:40 PM #16
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09-29-2007, 06:41 PM #17
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it didnt flip cuz i swerved... read the post carefully lol. i hit a ditch and rolled because of that
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