Involved in a high speed chase today.

If you wake up tomorrow, you'll probably have whiplash and other injuries - see if you can find out what agency was chasing them and if they were breaking any of their own policies.
For real though, did you get twisted? impacts that make you twist put severe strain on your brainstem to the point where some people get internally decapitated. take care man, if anything's not right, get checked out.
 
I didnt hit my head though, and the hit wasnt that bad. Not even an airbag

I saw a F150 turn into an intersection right in front of a new Volvo that was in the lane next to me, running 40-45 mph. Volvo came totally off the ground, broke the lower control arm off the car. Not a single air bag went off.

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at least there is an Arby's right there!
 
honestly, they dont carry a lot of value, and I dont know how bad (cost) it is for straightening out a 1/4 panel. Im sure it's not totaled though

I am glad you are OK. That's some crazy sh88T. You will be surprised how much that damage will cost to repair. If you want it to be totaled it can be totaled. I would ask for the bumper, quarter panel and door to be replaced. If they don't they will never fit right. There will be gaps. If the axle is involved at all its toast.

Start van shopping. ;)

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You can be right, or you can be dead right.


I wasn't around when they wrote that law, but I'll bet the intent wasn't for people to pull over in front of a patrol car when he was chasing somebody.

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No...but....


A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER should know the law and expect citizens to follow the law...as most compentant drivers know the laws of the road.
Having said that...if the cop went left.... and @HMP went left and was tagged...it's @HMP 's fault....

But in this case... @HMP was in the right and should be awarded damages. Cop could have stopped pursuit at any time. Was the guy that much of a danger to the general public that he had to be apprehended right then involving a high speed pursuit putting the general public's life in jeopardy???


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Another Glad you're ok as well as you are! Sorry about the Fiesta, hope it gets better soon.

And get checked out by a doc. Worst they can say is that you're ok!
 
honestly, they dont carry a lot of value, and I dont know how bad (cost) it is for straightening out a 1/4 panel. Im sure it's not totaled though

Based on my brush up Iā€™d say around $5k in damage there. Bodywork has gotten to be more replace than fix. And if they blend the paint for the panels. If you get a low ball estimate ask for a second.


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Damn glad you are as well as you think you are. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. When it wears off the stiffness and soreness will follow. Definitely get checked out at least. Get several estimates for repair of the party car. Youā€™d be surprised what it takes to total a vehicle. Btw no offense, but you are not a doctor or a body man. Let a professional have a look.
 
Damn glad you are as well as you think you are. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. When it wears off the stiffness and soreness will follow. Definitely get checked out at least. Get several estimates for repair of the party car. Youā€™d be surprised what it takes to total a vehicle. Btw no offense, but you are not a doctor or a body man. Let a professional have a look.
That's where youre wrong, I AM a body man, have the shirt AND coffee mug to prove it

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I slept great, had two alarms set last night, one at midnight, one at 3. I slept well.

What can a doctor check for, exactly. No bumps bruises or scrapes.
I thought about it last night, and this morning, maybe I should get checked out just in case.

@wvsig and @chiefjason 's posts have me bummed. Man, just paid this off about 10 months ago or so, really liked not having a car payment, so I hope they're wrong. But, as stated, I want it fixed right. I took care of that car since buying. Have receipt for every oil change and the one issue it had (power steering).
 
I slept great, had two alarms set last night, one at midnight, one at 3. I slept well.

What can a doctor check for, exactly. No bumps bruises or scrapes.
I thought about it last night, and this morning, maybe I should get checked out just in case.

@wvsig and @chiefjason 's posts have me bummed. Man, just paid this off about 10 months ago or so, really liked not having a car payment, so I hope they're wrong. But, as stated, I want it fixed right. I took care of that car since buying. Have receipt for every oil change and the one issue it had (power steering).


Did you get a police report? Contact the shift supervisor for that agency and tell them they need to take care of running into your car. They should have a body shop to recommend. Appraisals are usually free but might take a while. The agency should take care of this. If not, I would start buy turning your insurance agency loose on them to force the issue. Then a call to a lawyer might not hurt either. You should not have to be paying for this. When I was hit by a cop it really didn't hurt the truck so I settled for a check and moved on. But the way I was hit, and the cop left the scene, I was not letting them off the hook. He would have forced most drivers into an accident with what he did to me.
 
Did you get a police report? Contact the shift supervisor for that agency and tell them they need to take care of running into your car. They should have a body shop to recommend. Appraisals are usually free but might take a while. The agency should take care of this. If not, I would start buy turning your insurance agency loose on them to force the issue. Then a call to a lawyer might not hurt either. You should not have to be paying for this. When I was hit by a cop it really didn't hurt the truck so I settled for a check and moved on. But the way I was hit, and the cop left the scene, I was not letting them off the hook. He would have forced most drivers into an accident with what he did to me.

this. Our police force gives the body shop a lot of money. And they go through cars like we go through toilet paper
 
I slept great, had two alarms set last night, one at midnight, one at 3. I slept well.

What can a doctor check for, exactly. No bumps bruises or scrapes.
I thought about it last night, and this morning, maybe I should get checked out just in case.


Do it.

You may have sustained a whipcash injury...go get it checked.
 
I was in a bad rear end collision back in Feb. 2006 and only had "soft tissue injuries". To this day, I'm still feeling the results of that wreck. My wife said that my personality changed after the wreck and I have never been the same since, mentally or physically.
 
Glad you are okay. That stuff is freaking scary.

I have witnessed two of those. Both during rush hours with heavy traffic. Both times I saw what was coming up behind me and instinctively pulled completely off the interstate (into the grass). The first one made the tremendously stupid error of zipping in front of a 18-wheeler. He was clipped by the truck and landed on his side in the center median. The second time (once I was able to re-enter the lane) I saw the perps car wrapped around a tree on the bank of the next exit.

Both incidents have made me despise driving on the interstates in heavy traffic.
Reaffirms my choice for the Challenger over another Veloster. More protection from stupid.
 
I was in a bad rear end collision back in Feb. 2006 and only had "soft tissue injuries". To this day, I'm still feeling the results of that wreck. My wife said that my personality changed after the wreck and I have never been the same since, mentally or physically.
My step-mother had neurological damage from a car wreck. Even developed "chemical sensitivity syndrome." Either that or it is was just another symptom of her hypochondria.:);):D
 
Back in the 80's a friend of mine who was a pickup driver*** and I were discussing vehicle integrity.

I had a small car and was boasting on its safety ratings, "crumple zones", and crash tests.

He said "the crumple zone of my truck is the other guy's car".



***(Young'uns won't know this, but prior to the early 90's, the people driving pickup trucks were mostly people who had a use for a truck. Trucks were relatively rare on the road).




Here's a fun fact: The rise of the pickup truck and SUV as a mainstay of passenger transportation is an almost direct result of US tax law.

In 1991, the US imposed the Luxury Tax. A tax on vehicles over $30,000. To make sure this didn't hit "working people", they didn't tax vehicles over a certain weight, as those surely would be work trucks/farm vehicles/etc. There was no such thing as a 'luxurious' truck in 1989.


In the early 90's, there were also changes in the way you could write off a vehicle for business. It made more financial sense to have an overly large truck or SUV than a minivan from a total-cost-of-ownership perspective.

With the changes in buying habits, "regular" people followed, as market offerings increased. The US economy embraced this change, as Japan had made a huge hole in auto sales, and only the US was cranking out large SUVs and trucks in the US market.



In 2002, the luxury tax was repealed, but the damage was done. The US market had gone all-in on overpriced inefficient trucks.


Also note, the dates of these rules correspond exactly with the last time you could buy a reasonably priced truly small pickup truck in the US.

Yep, yep, yep.

It's a plain-jane F250SD XLT gasser, not fancy. I need to tow a fully-loaded 14' dump trailer (work), not often or far, but I gotta do it.
 
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I am glad it wasn't worse for you, and also hope you get checked out. My wife has had a moderate concussion from a seemingly minor accident, and it affected her more than you would think for severy weeks.

Take care and I hope you can get it repaired right soon and then move up to your van!
 
In'68 a girl I knew in HS got her drivers license and her dad bought her an Electra 225 to drive.
Biggest car in the HS parking lot.
 
My step-mother had neurological damage from a car wreck. Even developed "chemical sensitivity syndrome." Either that or it is was just another symptom of her hypochondria.:);):D
OMG, she has hypochondria? Have you told how serious that is and the multitude symptoms that can present with???

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Close call. A very good friend of mine from high school was a state trooper in SC. He was in a high speed chase and made a move similar to what you describe and instead of clipping the quarter panel he ran into the back of the car at about 90 plus mph, killing him and the innocent person in the car on impact.
 
OMG, she has hypochondria? Have you told how serious that is and the multitude symptoms that can present with???

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She is a character. You should see the pile of medicines and supplements she takes.
She is also borderline agoraphobic.
But she is generally nuts. If I could is add her to the NICS prohibited person list.


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Dang dude. Glad your ok. For sure get checked out. Especially since you had a headache after.

The brain is supremely tough, yet so very fragile. Sitting in your skull encapsulated in shock absorbing fluid though it is. Just the right shot can cause it to contact your skull and cause issues.

It is super weird/interesting how a solid shot results in nothing but a light, grazing blow at just the right angle can cause serious issues...
 
I called an urgent care place today around noon, my headache was still bothering me (still is, actually).
They said to go to hospital where they could handle CT scans etc
I went to Novant in Thomasville, they did a CT scan and said no swelling or bleeding of brain, and if I still had headaches on MOnday to contact/go back

It's just a droning headache, not sharp pains, just steady frontal area
 
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