Today was the day my truck ate a Cadillac for breakfast. I love my truck for so many reasons. It’s an 05 Dakota, so it has steel bumpers and only a handful of computers that control inconsequential stuff. That means I can fix almost everything by myself, and it’s a sturdy truck. This truck has collided with other vehicles and poles and always comes away with little to no damage. Today was no different.
I was driving west on Martin east of Gratiot. If you’re familiar with the area this will make more sense. I’m doing 32-35. It’s a 30 mph zone.
There’s a Cadillac behind me that keeps speeding up then slowing down. It gets on my ass then falls back. It goes into the middle lane then back into ours, then to the shoulder then back. At first I thought it was an aggressive driver who didn’t understand the light timing so I wasn’t paying much attention. They veer to the right where there is a little avenue that will take you northeast or you can keep on Martin like I’m doing. I thought they had veered off onto that avenue but I missed where they swerved off the avenue and back on to the road I was on.
I’m coming up to the light and am braking. I almost come to a complete stop when all of a sudden BAM! The loudest crash I’ve heard in a long time slams into the back of my truck. I let off the brake pedal almost as soon as I registered the impact, and it hit me so hard it pushed me out into oncoming traffic. Thankfully the roads are pretty dead right now so no one was coming because the road I was pushed into is a 4 lane one way road, which gets A LOT of traffic.
The force you would have to hit my truck with to push it out into the road is incredible, even if I wasn’t braking. So between the sound, the jolt, and the movement I’m positive this car has destroyed my rear end. I look in my rear view and can see their entire front end is crumpled up. Their hood looks like a pyramid, I can see all their cars guts, they’ve got fluids dripping and just overall it looks devastated. I’m concerned with what my truck will look like because the Cadillac looked so bad.
At this point I’m stopped at the light in between the road. I’m getting ready to hop out of my truck so I check my mirrors and rear view. I see this person in the Cadillac hesitate for a moment then they hit the gas and turned right. They were gone before it even clicked that they were running. I bust out laughing that they just took off then remembered my truck was just hit
So I pull into the gas station and hop out of my truck bracing myself for the horrors I’m about to see when I see this:
I busted out laughing again. I was positive between the sound, the other car, and him running that my truck was gonna be wrecked. If you look in the red circle you can see a piece from the Cadillac that got stuck in the tow hook. If you look at the right side you can see that the Cadillac slightly bent my bumper in. No damage anywhere else and because I wasn’t fully stopped, and because I let off the brake, there was no shock to the rest of the truck so it was like it never even happened.
At first I was a little annoyed but then thought, it was a minor inconvenience to me no big deal. Whoever hit me is going to be dealing with way more crap than I am with my bent bumper. Whether it was their car and they were under the influence at 830 am, or they have a warrant, or they stole the car, or all three, whatever caused them to hit me, then take off, is a much worse life than my bumper being bent.
In all reality, I’m actually glad they just took off. I despise police and want nothing to do with them, ever. The thought of having to deal with cops over this was what I was dreading the most and this guy made it easy by just taking off. I avoid cops at all costs and this person at least had the courtesy to keep the cops out of it
