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beany323 · 12-07-2012, 10:39 PM

i bet the truck had a few beers in it.

Abomb1223 · 12-08-2012, 09:10 AM

The zl1 grille is about 1100 fully assembled not painted. I'm sure you could get yours fixed for less. But if they decided to repainted the whole bumper you could do the t3 ports for 300 something. I'm in the middle of the same deal, fender bender, my fault, and now weighing my options on coming out of it with something better. Just wish the zl1 front end wasn't so expensive. Actually it's the lighting that knocks the price up.

upflying · 12-08-2012, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DivorcedDaddy18

Definition of accident: An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.
LOL

Accidents are preventable, correct definition of this incident is "collision".

CWI · 12-08-2012, 10:02 AM

I have been a member here for more than 4 years and I am rarely cinical of people's comments but everyone has pet peeves and one of mine is the use of the word accident.

I work in quality assurance in heavy industrial settings. Oil refineries, which are some of the most dangerous work sights. I work closely with the safety department. I was just making the point that texting and driving or looking at your phone receiving a text resulting in your car contacting another is an avoidable "incident", NOT an "accident". If it is caused by a person's negligence, it is an incident. Call it what it really is. I have had my share of broken bones and injuries including a broken back and none of them were an accident. They were all the result of bad decisions by myself or others and hardly accidents.

Not a grammatical thing. It's a definition thing!!! I know what year it is, I am guessing I've made couple more trips around the sun than many on here.

I'm not trying to flame anyone or be a hardass. I apologize if it sounds like that but negligent behavior while driving or any place else resulting in damage, injury or death is no accident. People don't need to chill. People need to open their eyes and be responsible for their behavior that causes incidents that are so easily passed off as "accidents."

While doing some work on a crane over 8 years ago, I joked with a fellow superintendent to catch me if I fall. I knew there was risk in what I was doing, yet I made the decision to continue. 10 seconds later I was on the ground after falling 4 1/2 feet, waiting for an ambulance for the first time in my life, not knowing how bad I was hurt or if I would walk out of the hospital whenever I got through this. Mistake? Yes. Stupid? Yes. Accident? Hell no!!!

I don't care if you think I am an ass or if anyone else does for that matter. What I do care is that maybe someone reads this and realizes risky behavior isn't worth it. That text message isn't as important as an innocent person's health or life. I see so many of these threads about how they had an

accident

because of something that distrated them. I've been in and seen many car wrecks and not one was an accident.

Enough of my rant. That's all I have to say. I don't want to be the reason your thread gets locked.

Overflow · 12-08-2012, 11:02 AM

And this is why it's bad to text and drive..

DivorcedDaddy18 · 12-08-2012, 11:18 AM

I wasn't texting. My phone was in my cup holder, I heard it go off and looked down. I was going to get my daughter at school, for some reason I thought it might be the ex-wife about something with our daughter -- I was at a stop light and the cars in front of me stopped after going.

Again -- my fault. I don't disagree.

I've been driving 25 years and never was a fault for an accident. It was a stupid mistake, taking my eyes off the road. Thankfully it was at 10 mph.

markmass · 12-08-2012, 11:23 AM

Whereabouts are you in the springs??? I'm over at Lennox Isle - Atlantic and coral ridge drive.

Abomb1223 · 12-08-2012, 11:47 AM

I think when CWI fell off that crane on purpose it knocked a couple screws loose haha

DefianceDan · 12-08-2012, 12:50 PM

Eekk...that JCWhitney back view looks downright scary!

CHMSC · 12-08-2012, 01:52 PM

Wow. Sorry for the peeps giving you a hard time. Chit happens and you owned up to it. That should be all that matters, along with the lesson learned.

Now back to the OP's question. If your bumper is wrinkled you will most likely need a new bumper cover. If the crush absorbers are ok then it's probably around $1000 maybe a little more.

ActNup NY · 12-08-2012, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lil'BlueCoupe

expensive text.....

sorry to here of your pain

+1 Glad it wasn't serious.

MYDLIFECRISIS · 12-08-2012, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CWI

I have been a member here for more than 4 years and I am rarely cinical of people's comments but everyone has pet peeves and one of mine is the use of the word accident.

I work in quality assurance in heavy industrial settings. Oil refineries, which are some of the most dangerous work sights. I work closely with the safety department. I was just making the point that texting and driving or looking at your phone receiving a text resulting in your car contacting another is an avoidable "incident", NOT an "accident". If it is caused by a person's negligence, it is an incident. Call it what it really is. I have had my share of broken bones and injuries including a broken back and none of them were an accident. They were all the result of bad decisions by myself or others and hardly accidents.

Not a grammatical thing. It's a definition thing!!! I know what year it is, I am guessing I've made couple more trips around the sun than many on here.

I'm not trying to flame anyone or be a hardass. I apologize if it sounds like that but negligent behavior while driving or any place else resulting in damage, injury or death is no accident. People don't need to chill. People need to open their eyes and be responsible for their behavior that causes incidents that are so easily passed off as "accidents."

While doing some work on a crane over 8 years ago, I joked with a fellow superintendent to catch me if I fall. I knew there was risk in what I was doing, yet I made the decision to continue. 10 seconds later I was on the ground after falling 4 1/2 feet, waiting for an ambulance for the first time in my life, not knowing how bad I was hurt or if I would walk out of the hospital whenever I got through this. Mistake? Yes. Stupid? Yes. Accident? Hell no!!!

I don't care if you think I am an ass or if anyone else does for that matter. What I do care is that maybe someone reads this and realizes risky behavior isn't worth it. That text message isn't as important as an innocent person's health or life. I see so many of these threads about how they had an

accident

because of something that distrated them. I've been in and seen many car wrecks and not one was an accident.

Enough of my rant. That's all I have to say. I don't want to be the reason your thread gets locked.

I agree with you...who's to say he wouldn't check a text at 60mph and really hit someone causing severe damage or death. I say if you play with your phone while driving, you deserve what happens. But whoever you hit certainly doesn't deserve your stupidity!

blink · 12-08-2012, 04:53 PM

Reminds me of about two months ago. I was driving my Monte Carlo SS and was stuck in traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The guy behind me, I had noticed was talking on the phone, texting, eating all throughout the period of being behind me. He hit me not once, but twice from looking at his phone or eating is food and taking his foot off the brake. No damage, either times, since he was literally just rolling two feet or so. But just stupidity.

wadeh · 12-08-2012, 05:40 PM

If you took your eyes off the road to read a text, that is the very definition of texting and driving. It's fortunate that no real harm was done. This is the event to let you know that no text is worth hurting someone. Don't do it. Ever.

A couple of years ago, somebody following me in traffic felt the need to look at their phone. They were a at least a hundred yards beck, so I guess they though it was ok. Well, they didn't count on traffic coming to an unexpected stop. I was fully stopped in my Corvette. They looked up about 50 feet behind me and slammed on the brakes. They still hit me hard enough to shove me into the stopped car in front of me. Their car was destroye. The combination of the collision and their airbag deployment shattered their windshield and showered me with broken glass as my convertible top was down. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, be he did $20,000 damage to my car in addition to totaling his. All of the financial dust still isn't settled after two years. I hope the message on his phone was worth it.

And as for whether this counts as an accident or not, the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary has multiple definitions of accident. One of the, implies and unfortunate and unintended event. Another specifically applies to liability in the case where there is no negligence. The event that started this thread is an accident by the first definition, but not the second.

12-08-2012, 10:02 AM	#18
CWI Helping Build America Drives: 2010 2SS/RS,LS3 2013 Duramax 3500HD Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Freeport LPG Export Posts: 3,836 View My Garage	I have been a member here for more than 4 years and I am rarely cinical of people's comments but everyone has pet peeves and one of mine is the use of the word accident. I work in quality assurance in heavy industrial settings. Oil refineries, which are some of the most dangerous work sights. I work closely with the safety department. I was just making the point that texting and driving or looking at your phone receiving a text resulting in your car contacting another is an avoidable "incident", NOT an "accident". If it is caused by a person's negligence, it is an incident. Call it what it really is. I have had my share of broken bones and injuries including a broken back and none of them were an accident. They were all the result of bad decisions by myself or others and hardly accidents. Not a grammatical thing. It's a definition thing!!! I know what year it is, I am guessing I've made couple more trips around the sun than many on here. I'm not trying to flame anyone or be a hardass. I apologize if it sounds like that but negligent behavior while driving or any place else resulting in damage, injury or death is no accident. People don't need to chill. People need to open their eyes and be responsible for their behavior that causes incidents that are so easily passed off as "accidents." While doing some work on a crane over 8 years ago, I joked with a fellow superintendent to catch me if I fall. I knew there was risk in what I was doing, yet I made the decision to continue. 10 seconds later I was on the ground after falling 4 1/2 feet, waiting for an ambulance for the first time in my life, not knowing how bad I was hurt or if I would walk out of the hospital whenever I got through this. Mistake? Yes. Stupid? Yes. Accident? Hell no!!! I don't care if you think I am an ass or if anyone else does for that matter. What I do care is that maybe someone reads this and realizes risky behavior isn't worth it. That text message isn't as important as an innocent person's health or life. I see so many of these threads about how they had an accident because of something that distrated them. I've been in and seen many car wrecks and not one was an accident. Enough of my rant. That's all I have to say. I don't want to be the reason your thread gets locked. __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit, what a ride!"

12-08-2012, 11:23 AM	#21
markmass TRI-COUNTY CAMAROS Drives: 2SS/RS Oct 2009 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Coral Springs Florida Posts: 448 View My Garage	Whereabouts are you in the springs??? I'm over at Lennox Isle - Atlantic and coral ridge drive. __________________ GET-TORQ custom CAM 223/243 LSA113, Full LS3 conversion, 3200 stall Multi-Disk TC from Circle-D, B&M Supercooler to cool that tranny down....1 7/8" Kooks Headers and High flowCats. MACH XL Catbacks. Eibach springs, R2C Performance CAI, powdercoated calipers, Footwell lighting in tune with dome lights, tints, ABL Lighting, ACS T3 ports and ACS Eagle T3 triple LED lighting kit. Heritage grill, Hex vents, ZL1 rockers, ZL1 Diffuser, Quad tips...the list keeps getting longer - whats next??

12-08-2012, 12:50 PM	#23
DefianceDan VroomVroom Drives: 2017 50th 2SS Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Columbus, OH Posts: 497	Eekk...that JCWhitney back view looks downright scary! __________________ 2017 H50 2SS MX8 F55 NPP CF5 RN2

12-08-2012, 01:52 PM	#24
CHMSC ROAD COURSE JUNKIE Drives: 2012 SS/RS LS3 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Somewhere Posts: 4,868 View My Garage	Wow. Sorry for the peeps giving you a hard time. Chit happens and you owned up to it. That should be all that matters, along with the lesson learned. Now back to the OP's question. If your bumper is wrinkled you will most likely need a new bumper cover. If the crush absorbers are ok then it's probably around $1000 maybe a little more. __________________

12-08-2012, 04:53 PM	#27
blink dave Drives: 2011 2LT/RS Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Dewey Beach, Delaware Posts: 292	Reminds me of about two months ago. I was driving my Monte Carlo SS and was stuck in traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The guy behind me, I had noticed was talking on the phone, texting, eating all throughout the period of being behind me. He hit me not once, but twice from looking at his phone or eating is food and taking his foot off the brake. No damage, either times, since he was literally just rolling two feet or so. But just stupidity. __________________

12-07-2012, 10:39 PM	#15
beany323 Drives: Camaro 2SS /RS/1LE Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Southern Cali. Posts: 1,566 View My Garage	i bet the truck had a few beers in it.

12-08-2012, 09:10 AM	#16
Abomb1223 Drives: 2011 Camaro Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,086	The zl1 grille is about 1100 fully assembled not painted. I'm sure you could get yours fixed for less. But if they decided to repainted the whole bumper you could do the t3 ports for 300 something. I'm in the middle of the same deal, fender bender, my fault, and now weighing my options on coming out of it with something better. Just wish the zl1 front end wasn't so expensive. Actually it's the lighting that knocks the price up.

12-08-2012, 11:02 AM	#19
Overflow Space Shuttle Aficionado Drives: 2016 Camaro 2SS Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 30,897 View My Garage	And this is why it's bad to text and drive..

12-08-2012, 11:18 AM	#20
DivorcedDaddy18 Drives: 2012 Camaro 1LT Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Coral Springs, FL Posts: 45	I wasn't texting. My phone was in my cup holder, I heard it go off and looked down. I was going to get my daughter at school, for some reason I thought it might be the ex-wife about something with our daughter -- I was at a stop light and the cars in front of me stopped after going. Again -- my fault. I don't disagree. I've been driving 25 years and never was a fault for an accident. It was a stupid mistake, taking my eyes off the road. Thankfully it was at 10 mph.

12-08-2012, 11:47 AM	#22
Abomb1223 Drives: 2011 Camaro Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,086	I think when CWI fell off that crane on purpose it knocked a couple screws loose haha

12-08-2012, 05:40 PM	#28
wadeh Drives: 2011 2SS/RS/M6, Silver Ice Metallic Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Snohomish, WA Posts: 124	If you took your eyes off the road to read a text, that is the very definition of texting and driving. It's fortunate that no real harm was done. This is the event to let you know that no text is worth hurting someone. Don't do it. Ever. A couple of years ago, somebody following me in traffic felt the need to look at their phone. They were a at least a hundred yards beck, so I guess they though it was ok. Well, they didn't count on traffic coming to an unexpected stop. I was fully stopped in my Corvette. They looked up about 50 feet behind me and slammed on the brakes. They still hit me hard enough to shove me into the stopped car in front of me. Their car was destroye. The combination of the collision and their airbag deployment shattered their windshield and showered me with broken glass as my convertible top was down. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, be he did $20,000 damage to my car in addition to totaling his. All of the financial dust still isn't settled after two years. I hope the message on his phone was worth it. And as for whether this counts as an accident or not, the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary has multiple definitions of accident. One of the, implies and unfortunate and unintended event. Another specifically applies to liability in the case where there is no negligence. The event that started this thread is an accident by the first definition, but not the second.