Interesting evening

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
G

Goosemaster

Lifer
Apr 10, 2001
48,775
3
81
Well, I was driving to class from work, and I saw a fender bender, or more of a 40mph-slammed-into-a- stopped-car on the free way and immediately pulled into their lane with the hzards to stop incoming traffic.

Suddenly the car who had hit the other starts moving foward, and thecar that was hit follows. I think they are moving off of the road so I tail them to see if anyone is hurt.

Suddenly, the suspect floors it a la a cops "hit and run scene"

Naturally I followed him:D

I try to flag down a cop in the closed X HOV lane, who as it turns out has already seen the guy fly by and left in persuit. Finally I pull up to the scene where everyone has stopped like a mile away, and the suspects car is appearantly all but on fire. As I get closer I assume that he must have punctured the radiator or something but once I get close I realize how bad it is....the front end was totalled.

and then, and only then, do I notice the 80s boxy volvo waggon stopped behind. The cops tell me it is a witness but that I should stay just in case. As it turns out the suspect actually hit the volvo.


I was in shock and told them that I thnought the car that was hit was still back there. Turns out that I was wrong.

THERE WAS NOT A SCRATCH on the volvo. NOTHING.....NADA....(this was after a ~40mph rear collision.
Obviously the cops come and ask for my info and stuff, and then the cop was like "..yeah....we aren't sure if that volvo actually got hit either. " I nthe end, you could sort of tell because of scratches, but nothing like with the suspects car..parts of his front end were ALL OVER the raod..ah the beauty of crumple zones.

In the end, the main cop .....

"yeah, thanks for stopping, but it would have been hard for me to let a smoking car with the hood up, that was speeding in the closed hov lane to just keep driving " ;)



In the end, the guy would have had higher insurance rates and a repaired nice japanese car (very nice whatever it was) ...

The guy decided to run...and now he has a f'd up car, MASSIVE insurance rates, and ahs to spend the night in jail...



CLIFFS FOR ALL TO SEE..:


some dude hit someone on the freeway, all but totally destroying his car, and tried to get away by speeding away in the closed HOV lane where the cops always love to pick off apprehensive drivers.

Isntead of dealing with just higher insurance rates, he ran and pwned himself
 
T

thomsbrain

Lifer
Dec 4, 2001
18,148
1
0
yeah i remember when my parents were shopping for cars in 1991, they were reading safety statistics. more people died in corvettes than any other car (per car, i think), and no one died in volvo 240 wagons. NO ONE. of course volvo drivers are usually pretty conservative (minus those turbos, they're all flying), but still. they are tanks, no doubt about it.
 
G

Goosemaster

Lifer
Apr 10, 2001
48,775
3
81
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
yeah i remember when my parents were shopping for cars in 1991, they were reading safety statistics. more people died in corvettes than any other car (per car, i think), and no one died in volvo 240 wagons. NO ONE. of course volvo drivers are usually pretty conservative (minus those turbos, they're all flying), but still. they are tanks, no doubt about it.
Click to expand...

Still, a car should have more than scratches after a 40mph collison.

HELL, A CONCRETE WALL WILL HAVE MORE THAN SCRATCHES AFTER A 40mph collissions. Those Sweeds must haved used the same stuff ancient chastity belts were made of back in the ole days....

Now that I think about it, the japanese car literally exploded on impact...fine engineering...the guy was fine enough to make a getaway:D
 
K

Kibbo

Platinum Member
Jul 13, 2004
2,847
0
0
I've had this theory for awhile:

Volvo should start one of those stupid "communities" like Saturn did. In the event of alien attack or other calamaty that knocks out the military quickly, the drivers of the Volvos could unite and form the back bone of the resistance.

Notice how no-one invades the Swedes?

Think about it.
 
G

Goosemaster

Lifer
Apr 10, 2001
48,775
3
81
Originally posted by: Kibbo
I've had this theory for awhile:

Volvo should start one of those stupid "communities" like Saturn did. In the event of alien attack or other calamaty that knocks out the military quickly, the drivers of the Volvos could unite and form the back bone of the resistance.

Notice how no-one invades the Swedes?

Think about it.
Click to expand...

Yeah...with a pocket knife and a Volvo wagon, the world is ours for the taking :evil:
 
A

apac

Diamond Member
Apr 12, 2003
6,212
0
71
My friend in HS had one of those. He hit a tree with it once ...and it left a dent in the tree taking only scratches on the fender.
 
C

Calin

Diamond Member
Apr 9, 2001
3,112
0
0
The 8 series Volvo - they are great cars (too bad they are the most expensive cars to repair)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom