What a day! Bad accident on the way to get TT
My family and I were exciting to go back to camping. We were going to go camping next week with boy scout group. After few months of searching for a camper, we found one 3 hours away. Last Saturday, I went there to look at it and negotiated a deal and put down a deposit on it. It was a nice camper and I got it for 50 dollars over the low retail value without adding any options.
Today, we were going to bring it home. My kids and my wife did not go with me, so it was just by myself. As I got on 45 East Toll in Austin, I could feel the road was slippery on the bridge, so I slow down to around 40PMH on 70MPH highway. A car in front of me spun out and I slowly steer to the left and slow down by letting off the gas (I did not hit the brake) to avoid hitting the car. I lost control of the truck. I kept turning the wheel to left and then right and then left and back a forth for about 20 second and the truck was still sliding at around 20 MPH. No matter how hard I tried, after about 20 seconds of trying to regain control, I hit the guard rail. :(
Here is the kicker, the impact was soft, but it hit right on the frame at an angle and then spun the truck around and the rear left side hit the guard rail. Its amazing how much damaged occurred at low speed. The frame is bent like crazy. The hitch and the axle shifted big time. The front end is crocked.
Before you bash me about speed, I thought I was going at safe speed as I used to live in NY. The cop said that people were going much faster than me anyway. Cop said that because I had to steer to avoid hitting another car, I was done. As I was waiting for help, about 8 out of ten cars were losing control in the same area as I did. Cop shut down the highway until the deicer truck came. I thought I made a good judgment call by going ahead to head to Houston by going at lower speed, but I was wrong. If I had delay it by few hours, it would had been fine.
I am just ticked that I lost my favorite truck. It was bare bone 2004 F250 with V10 and it only had 70K miles. I never thought I would like my truck because it had nothing in it, but it turned out to be the best truck I ever owned
I had to cancel the loan and tell the dealer that I am not going to be able to buy the TT. Now I have to start a painful process of shopping for another truck and when time comes, then shop for another TT. Oh what a cruel world. The bright side is that I am okay, just banged up my head. Kids and my wife was not in the truck with me today, so that spare them any trauma. After this incident, I will make sure my next truck have side airbags!
Today, we were going to bring it home. My kids and my wife did not go with me, so it was just by myself. As I got on 45 East Toll in Austin, I could feel the road was slippery on the bridge, so I slow down to around 40PMH on 70MPH highway. A car in front of me spun out and I slowly steer to the left and slow down by letting off the gas (I did not hit the brake) to avoid hitting the car. I lost control of the truck. I kept turning the wheel to left and then right and then left and back a forth for about 20 second and the truck was still sliding at around 20 MPH. No matter how hard I tried, after about 20 seconds of trying to regain control, I hit the guard rail. :(
Here is the kicker, the impact was soft, but it hit right on the frame at an angle and then spun the truck around and the rear left side hit the guard rail. Its amazing how much damaged occurred at low speed. The frame is bent like crazy. The hitch and the axle shifted big time. The front end is crocked.
Before you bash me about speed, I thought I was going at safe speed as I used to live in NY. The cop said that people were going much faster than me anyway. Cop said that because I had to steer to avoid hitting another car, I was done. As I was waiting for help, about 8 out of ten cars were losing control in the same area as I did. Cop shut down the highway until the deicer truck came. I thought I made a good judgment call by going ahead to head to Houston by going at lower speed, but I was wrong. If I had delay it by few hours, it would had been fine.
I am just ticked that I lost my favorite truck. It was bare bone 2004 F250 with V10 and it only had 70K miles. I never thought I would like my truck because it had nothing in it, but it turned out to be the best truck I ever owned
I had to cancel the loan and tell the dealer that I am not going to be able to buy the TT. Now I have to start a painful process of shopping for another truck and when time comes, then shop for another TT. Oh what a cruel world. The bright side is that I am okay, just banged up my head. Kids and my wife was not in the truck with me today, so that spare them any trauma. After this incident, I will make sure my next truck have side airbags!
