Yup I agree, and right around :27 you can barely hear the Challenger owners discontent with the incident. I'd be pi$$ed beyond belief too. I mean, come on. It wasn't as if the Challenger made a sudden stop and the pickup truck driver had a split second to react to it.....he was stopped for several seconds for petes sake. The guy in the pick up needs to get his head out of his a$$.That hurts just to see it. I can only imagine how the owner of that beautiful new car feels.
I've only been rear-ended once - in my previous SUV on the expressway while having to brake for a sudden traffic jam that materialized across all three lanes ahead. I had about 2 or 3 seconds before he hit me - but I had cars ahead of me, and on the left - and a guard rail to the right. Nowhere to go. I kept my foot hard on the brake because I didn't want to get pushed into the cars ahead of me.Not much you can do in a situation like this, sitting at a red light. I've been hit in the rear like this while stopped three times in my life. One time I saw her coming and I tried to get going, but I couldn't get traction on the wet road then BAM!
If there's no place to go, brace your head against the head rest!
Only once for me, but similar. Sitting at a light, then wham, guy just ran into the back of me! Car was never the same. Trunk never quite closed right after wards, front windshield cracked months later, and my exhaust y-pipe also developed a crack months later. No way to recover those costs, so I had to eat them.Not much you can do in a situation like this, sitting at a red light. I've been hit in the rear like this while stopped three times in my life. One time I saw her coming and I tried to get going, but I couldn't get traction on the wet road then BAM!
If there's no place to go, brace your head against the head rest!
Simular accident happened to me. Nissan pathfinder was comming in the oncomming lane and lost control on a icey road in town limits, and ended up in my lane at about 30mph, I hit the nissan and it bounced off my pickup into the ditch. Fortunatly a cop car was right behind me. The cop car managed to stop with no room to get between the front of the car and the back of my pickup. Should have seen the look on the little asian/chineses face.(priceless) He got cut up a little bit, I had mild whiplash but we both walked away.I've only been rear-ended once - in my previous SUV on the expressway while having to brake for a sudden traffic jam that materialized across all three lanes ahead. I had about 2 or 3 seconds before he hit me - but I had cars ahead of me, and on the left - and a guard rail to the right. Nowhere to go. I kept my foot hard on the brake because I didn't want to get pushed into the cars ahead of me.
Luckily, although it crumpled the front end of his Ford Focus, all I had was a couple scuffs on the plastic bumper cover of my SUV. Hardly visible. And although it was a heckuva jolt, nobody got hurt.
And, conveniently about 400 ft further down the expressway was a nice State Trooper on hand already for a truck breakdown (the cause of the backup). He wrote up a nice ticket to the rear-ender for following too closely and I was on my way in about 15 minutes. The traffic jam had completely cleared by then.