evo dsm pics then accident ohhhhh noooooooooooooooo

[95whitegst]

well me and my buddy with his evo met up ton went out to eat then went to sheetz to get some gas and i took some pics then we proceeded to drive to his house to chill and we were going around a turn and he was wayyy ahead of me and a dog ran into the road at night and he saw it at the last minute jerked the car one way then back the other and up an embankment into a tree and it pushed his entire frame in....his turbo went through his radiator i couldnt get a real good pic of that cause it was dark but heres the best i could do

 

[95redturboawd]

That's why if an animal runs out in the road in front of you, you should just hit it. You don't run the risk of this happening, or swerving into oncoming traffic. Pretty shitty though.

 

[95whitegst]

yea i saw it happen and i was like dude hit that shit then boom tree meets evo and it almost rolled

 

[907gs-t]

Now that blow's. Up here you don't have a choice you have to swerve because of these damn suicidal MOOSE.

 

[95whitegst]

yea hes soooo mad he just got the car back too with all new shit on it and then this happens 3 days later

 

[95whitegst]

if you guys can kinda see the frame on the passenger side got pushed back a bit idk if its fixable or not im assumeing he can just pull it out but im not 100% as i dont know much about frame damage and what is and isnt fixable if anyone could chime in on that issue that would be awsome

 

[Killa_dsm]

That's why if an animal runs out in the road in front of you, you should just hit it. You don't run the risk of this happening, or swerving into oncoming traffic. Pretty shitty though.

x2 Its never safe to swerve. They teach you that in driving school.

 

[sik4g63]

It should be able to be fixed. It will cost some greenbacks though. My buddy works in an auto body shop and I have seen worse get repaired. Thats sucks that he hit the tree instead of the dog, but I think I would have swerved to miss the dog.

907GS-T I here ya on those damn moose. I was up there in Anchorage for a couple of years. I had to sit in traffic one day for bout an hour because of a few moose.

 

[casperfast]

awwwwww hit it, hit the damn dog, dog wouldnt do near that much damage

 

[95whitegst]

it was a dog though man i would swerve to i couldnt just run over it knowingly i know its not what he should have done but he did and im sure about 98 percent of people would have done the same

 

[95gst16g]

This sucks.I always think oh shit if I hit that it's gunna mess up my car so you instinctivly swerve but then sometimes it would have been better to just hit it.You really dont have enough time to think about it...well I dont anyway my brain is too slow

 

[95whitegst]

haha mine too and if you knew my friend his is too but hey everyone is ok which is good the car is replaceable i guess

 

[sax_man]

Thing ####in sucks. Remeber! "Don't veer for a deer"

 

[jdodds]

small animals are softer than trees. I wont swerve for anything smaller than a deer.

 

[Thomas91169]

i dont swerve for anything smaller than a calf.

 

[Fabian]

i dont swerve for anything smaller than a calf.

RO

I'll get you and your buddy some prices on the headlight, fender bumper and hood and call you later today with it all

 

[dannyd97gst]

That sucks for your pal with the Evo. Several years ago, when bored at work I called our parts department and priced out a Evo headlight $2100 or so for only 1. I hope it's not totaled. But yeah like almost everyone else said "Always hit the animal" and for alot of reasons Insurance being the main reason.

 

[wibblersnatch]

Dibs on the seats.

 

[Trav83]

It's only a natural reaction to swerve around something running out in the road, most of the time you can get away with not hitting it avoiding any disasters, but if anything runs out in front of you so close that you have no time to react, then yeah you're just better off hitting it.

 

[95whitegst]

haha i told him right after it happened i had dibs on the seats and steering wheel sorry man

 

[teamo2t]

Does the no swerve rule apply to small children as well? The neighbors kids are still learning to look both ways before crossing...

 

[95whitegst]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[brownfinger]

if you guys can kinda see the frame on the passenger side got pushed back a bit idk if its fixable or not im assumeing he can just pull it out but im not 100% as i dont know much about frame damage and what is and isnt fixable if anyone could chime in on that issue that would be awsome

My 1G was totaled back in Aug. The body and paint estimate totaled it, for sure, but the estimate didn't mention anything about frame damage. I knew it was un-fixibly bent because the steering wheel was off about an eighth of a turn, even though the impact was no-where near the wheel/suspension.
A couple of weeks ago I went to the junkyard where I laid her to rest. They had my car up in the air. I was under it taking off some junk I need for my new car when I noticed the bend. I was taking off the splash shield that covers all the belts and pulleys. Right above the axle, where the plastic shield bolts to the metal frame, there was a huge crease. The entire driver's side frame member had been bent down a few degrees.
It was relieving, in a way. I knew it would have been impractical to keep it and try to fix it, but it nagged at my conscience. I had a hunch that distorted frame would have been there. I knew after seeing it that I had made the correct decision.
The combined speed of the two vehicles in my crash was about 15 mph. I bet your friend was going a lot faster, and that tree was a lot heavier than a Grand Cherokee. Might be toast

 

[95whitegst]

he was doing about 55 down the road its a 45 and the dog ran out and he swerved the the right first and tried to bring it back and was doing fine till he oversteered and gassed it and boom tree met evo

 

[kottyking]

You should have seen it when me and some friends smoked a deer doing 60 in a plymouth acclaim with 5 people in the car. We won but my friends car was totaled. Had to wait for the county sherriff to come. The deer, running on adrenaline dragged itself to the ditch and twitched for 20 minutes till the sherriff came and unloaded a clip in his head because he wasn't dead yet.