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Originally Posted by LtnML  Greetings!
It has been about a month since I was last on here....Well just wanted to share what has happened to my ML since...Well a couple of days before Christmas I was heading home from work and there was the usual Northern Va traffic at 5. I was on centreville rd, which is a 3 lane road one way, and 3 the other. I was on my right lane, the two left lanes were jammed with cars, and I was approaching an intersection and there was a Honda civic from the opposite direction trying to make a left and cross the intersection, my lane was clear, cars on the left lane had left room at the intersection in order to not block the intersection. The Honda Civic saw that space and crossed immediately but did not look at the oncoming traffic on the third lane...well needless to say, I had no time to brake and ended up colliding with her on her right fender...It was a female driver, she was blaming me for the accident, she said I had to stop for her to cross, but she ended up with a ticket...she was at fault for not yielding at oncoming traffic..and she ended up going to the hospital for a foot injury.
On Christmas eve, the Insurance estimator took a look at my car.....and declared it a TOTAL LOSS...When I heard his message stating my car was a total loss I started to tear up...I loved my ML...It was my first car, I had bought it when I was 16 and now I'm 19. I spent so much time and money into it...and now its gone!! I had just bought projectors about 6 months ago...and loved the new look on the ML...Well I learned my lesson, sometimes its not worth spending so much money on making your car look real nice.
Well now I have no car, I'm broke because I just paid my classes for spring 08 semester. So now I'm currently waiting for a check from Geico. |
Looks like a bumper cover, bumper, grille, hood, LF fender, LF headlight and surrounding assembly, hood, lf suspension components, radiator and fans plus numerous other 'little' things and paint ( you didn't mention air bag deployment). Easily totaled for a 2001. Insurance Companies tend to total out vehicles with 60% or more damage, especially older ones.