Just Got Hit In the Back

[N2NH]

Glad to see you're ok - good advice is to see ifbthere is hidden damage to the car. Some bumpers need to be replaced after an accident. All the advice on getting a doctor to look at you is good. Hopefully he is insured.

[wa6mhz]

Someone hit and ran my Town Car in a parking lot sometime in the last few days. Put a nasty cut into the middle of the rear bumper. Not a dent, but a cut. Maybe I can patch it over with some JB WELD and then touch it up with touchup paint. Not sure what it was, but it looks to be about 3 inches square, like a Trailer hitch.

[K7SGJ]

Someone hit and ran my Town Car in a parking lot sometime in the last few days. Put a nasty cut into the middle of the rear bumper. Not a dent, but a cut. Maybe I can patch it over with some JB WELD and then touch it up with touchup paint. Not sure what it was, but it looks to be about 3 inches square, like a Trailer hitch.

Why not just jack up the paint job, and put a new car underneath it?

[wa6mhz]

They stopped making Town Cars in 2011, and I have yet to find a new car that can come even CLOSE to they way they handle and feel. It is a Land Yacht! A Tuna Cruiser! Gone are the days of the big wide cars made for Superhighway cruising! Now, all the auto industries are concerned about is FUEL ECONOMY, so even Cadillacs are the size of a Toyota!

Comfort and RIDE are GONE! (And I get 25 MPG on the road in my TC!)

[WØTKX]

F-150 four door Eco-Boost is the new Town Car.

[Bubba]

Just go see a lawyer. Skip the doctor.

[K7SGJ]

Or see if you can find someone whose name ends in Esquire M.D.

[KG4NEL]

They stopped making Town Cars in 2011, and I have yet to find a new car that can come even CLOSE to they way they handle and feel. It is a Land Yacht! A Tuna Cruiser! Gone are the days of the big wide cars made for Superhighway cruising! Now, all the auto industries are concerned about is FUEL ECONOMY, so even Cadillacs are the size of a Toyota!

Comfort and RIDE are GONE! (And I get 25 MPG on the road in my TC!)

This is not a bad thing.

I've been in International box trucks that have had better cornering "feel" than a Crown Vic...and unlike the police, I can't cruise at 100mph all day legally :cool2:

[n2ize]

So far all is well. No latent injuries. The owner of the car is going to have someone take a look at the bumper just to make sure but it's probably okay. Thank God I wasn't sitting in an 1970's Ford Pinto or I might have been cremated alive. 2 lessons learned here. 1) You never know when it's gonna happen and, 2) There are drivers who don't feel it is necessary to look in front of them. Thats why I always tell people who walk in the street, esp. at night. Don't expect that the approaching car see's you.

[kb2vxa]

"There are drivers who don't feel it is necessary to look in front of them."
That's how I got hit. The driver was looking to his left for a break in traffic while I was crossing his path. "But I didn't SEE you!" I told him "Yeah, because you weren't watching where you were going. You were expecting your way to be clear, it wasn't, that's why you didn't see me." I learned a valuable lesson; when you think you have the right of way you don't. The rules of the road have changed; the biggest vehicles have the right of way. The pecking order is according to size; 55' semis have but one predator, trains, women pushing baby carriages are at the bottom of the food chain.

"Thats why I always tell people who walk in the street, esp. at night."
People who walk in the street are stupid. If you allow them to pass on their stupid genes future generations will have to put up with more stupid. Try a little chlorine in the gene pool, ENCOURAGE them to walk in the street and do your part while driving, AIM for them. Future generations will thank you.