Anyone see my wife do a 360 on the 110 in pasadena? She's fine.
Yep, 99 E300 did a 360 from the middle lane and steered it into the center divide in the rain. Pics will be coming of the damage. The airbags didn't go off even though the front right part of the bumper was crushed in passed the head lamp. Also the rear bumper was thrashed along with the right rear quarter panel up to the diesel filler cap.
Any suggestions or comments.
Consider yourself and your wife fortunate that the airbags didn't deploy. That would have...
Consider yourself and your wife fortunate that the airbags didn't deploy. That would have added another $5,000+ to the repair bill. The airbags aren't designed to deploy on that type of frontal-offset collision. Had the collision taken place directly head-on with the front, then they would have deployed. Your car probably has an "event data recorder (EDR) or "black box" that recorded the information at the time of the "incident." Check with your service folks to see if they can share the "black box" info with you. (They probably won't do it since the infois supposedly recorded solely for research purposes.) It can be pretty enlightening...speed, brakes on or off, throttle open or closed, etc.
Glad to hear no one is hurt. That stretch of freeway is narrow, hilly with lots of twists and turns. It is one of the oldest freeways and one with an accident prone reputation. Cruising late night at 80 mph used to give me a rush (I would never try that on rainy days though).
I went to Performance plus in Long Beach yesterday to get a replacement tire. The guy who helped me said that he had the same experience 5 years ago on that same stretch of fwy. Maybe I should cut my wife some slack about her driving skills... by the way... thanks for the well wishes and the star at half staff. My wife has had no residual effects.
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