There was an accident already on the side of the freeway and traffic was moving... hmmm how do I put it... slowly. Stop and go. I drive stick (the only way to drive), but in situations like this you tend to keep your distance and just try to keep the car in gear, especially when you've been in this stop and go traffic for the past 2 miles.
Anyway, the accident that had traffic slowed was on the right side of the freeway and for some reason (unknown to me) was on the left side... a 5 lane difference. I'm finally clearing the scene of this accident, I'm looking ahead and traffic is going back to freeway speeds, the person in front of me starts to accelerate. I follow suit.
Then out of the blue, right near the police officers, the person in front of me brakes for maybe 5 feet before the back end of their car lifts about 4inches off the ground. They just ran into the person in front of them... This was not a "oh damn i just needed 1 more foot of stopping distance.., " it was literally a good ol' ramming. Fuck the back end came off the ground.
Anyway, as I said, I was accelerating like everyone else around me when this happened.... oh and not hard or fast mind you. Well, needless to say this thread is about my accident, I couldn't stop from hitting the lady that hit the other person... I needed that extra foot
Part of my hitting this person was a contribution from just having new tires put on my car and not wearing through the outer hard coat yet. So as I slid into the rear end of this pile up I left no tracks nor any smoke... I just slid.Well, the back end of her car was still perched up and my car being lowered i just slid right under her bumper, leaving all the damage to occur above my crash bar.
Good luck hope she's back soon!
I'll obviously post pics of her coming home.
