4th of July Accident... REALLY?!?!

Dave and I were "lucky" enough to start our holiday weekend with a lovely car accident on I-90, while heading up to Wisconsin.

This is my 3rd accident this year! WTF?! 1st one was on 2/12, 3rd one was on 4/4, and now this one happened today, exactly 3 months after my 2nd one.

Is there any way that my car can have the demons exorcised from it?

Jesus, take the wheel. (I borrowed that line from another blog I was introduced to. I'd credit the blog by including it's link here, but I don't know what it is right now... I'll have to find out on Monday.)

The only LUCKY part about the accident was that Dave and I came out alright. No cuts or bruises, just banged up from the jerking of our heads back and forth... and back and forth.

A Corolla in front of us locked up on their brakes because the 3 cars in front of him locked up on their brakes for no reason. They didn't end up hitting anyone in front of them, but for me and the pick-up truck behind me, it was too late.

With I-90 being under construction, in the area where the accident happened, there was no where to go, but forward. No shoulders were available to swerve into and the other lane wasn't clear to get into either.

I got a ticket for "Failure to Reduce Speed to Avoid An Accident," but was "given a break" since it was a holiday and didn't get my license taken away. The guy that rammed into me also got a ticket for the same reason. I got one since I hit the Corolla first, then the truck hit me. If the truck hit me first and then pushed me into the Corolla, then the truck driver would've been the only one to walk away with a ticket. He's even more fu¢ked because he was driving his work truck, while not being on work hours, which might be grounds for termination for him. I just hope that his company auto insurance isn't a pain in the ass to deal with. I'll leave all that up to my State Farm to deal with.

P.S.
We never made it to Wisconsin. We were only planning on spending the day and evening there since we had to get back to feed the dogs. Without the tail lights in tact, we didn't think it was a good idea to drive up to WI and drive it back at night. So we just went to the next gas station to find duct tape to tape the lights on, and headed back to Naperville. I'd say we had about 20-25 minutes left to drive to get to Milton, WI... only to turn back around.

Fun times. Un-freakin-believable.

Here are pics of the damage:

Wonderful trunk shot from my camera phone.


This is a better shot since it's from Dave's phone. Reminds me that I need a new phone.



Wonderful front shot from Dave's phone.


Front shot... At least my license plate is still in tact. Barely. It's on with one screw.


This is the Corolla that was in front of me. Damage was only on bumper of his car, so not bad at all.


Another trunk shot. The tail lights are only attached by the wires. We had to tuck them into the trunk, bunjee'd the trunk door to the bumper (yes, i actually had a bunjee cord in the trunk!!) to drive to the next gas station to find duck tape to tape them back into place.


This is the pick-up truck that rammed into my car. This is his damage. It doesn't look so bad from this picture, but he was leaking coolant immediately.

Another view of his front.