"This might as well happen" x100

[viridian5]

My horrible month continues to be horrible. My car hit someone's car Friday. Because he sped up but that's unprovable so fault looks 100% mine. I haven't had an accident prior to this for over five years. No injuries at least

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[aubergineautumn]

Hello twin. I backed into a parked car as I exited a driveway this week. First fender bender since I was 18.

And I hear you about new cars crumpling. My car is very old. It didn’t even have a scratch. The car I backed into, it’s entire side door crumpled in. It doesn’t even seem possible. My Mom said maybe someone else ran into it before me???

[viridian5]

I hear newer cars are designed to crumple more, to take and shift more of the impact into and through themselves to protect their passengers.

I remember many years ago when I was driving my '88 Topaz down a narrow street one night and inadvertently hit a newer parked car's side mirror with my side mirror. The Topaz's mirror casing barely had scratch on it, but the impact had ripped the other car's mirror off.