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Written by RX-7 Driver
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I crashed my first car on I Street downtown at 23rd street. I was
zipping along westbound, before they put all those traffic circles in.
An elderly woman cruised through her stop sign at full speed. She
didn't even see it. I saw her coming, but couldn't get out of the way
in time. I left about 10 feet of skid marks before impact. BAM.
It
wasn't bad. I had smashed in her Honda's driver's side rear door. My
front bumper was crushed in on the passenger side, and only one of my
little winking headlights would pop-up.
However, this was my first time
coming face-to-face with the realities of "repairable vs. totaled". On
a 1980 RX7, there wasn't much question that it would be totaled. The
take-away lesson from this accident was that at low speeds, it is a
easier to avoid a collision... oh, and also, don't give Josh a ride
downtown to pick up his dry cleaning.
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