Stroker's come in
Last night coming home from a friends house house, I was in the TA in the left hand lane of I-85 with an 18-wheeler right beside me. He started coming over on me (guess I was in his blind spot) so instead of nailing the brakes, I punched it and tried to get in front of him since I was closer to the front of his vehicle. From 4th gear, my car started spinning wildly and I lost control of it. It swayed side to side a few times on the wet pavement. The truck dove back over into the right hand lane when he saw (or heard) me. I couldn't regain control and ended up sliding into the concrete divider with my front end and passenger side quarter panel.
Air bags did deploy, but I wasn't injured whatsoever. The car had cosmetic damage on the front and passenger side. I got out and called Emergency who patched me through to the Highway Patrol. I told them what had happened, that it was a just one car involved and no one was injured at all.
Not two-three minutes after the accident, traffic was still coming and most of them getting over into the other lanes to avoid my car, except one. A purple Crown Vic never appeared to hit the brakes at all. He T-boned my passenger side door and front quarter panel as I jumped over the concrete divider to avoid getting hit while not in my car.
The passengers inside the Crown Vic were shaken up pretty badly, but none of them seriously injured. They did have a 4-5 year old girl in the back but she may have only had a scratch or two. The woman (passenger) was bruised up and two months pregnant. EMS told me she would be fine, but she was going to the hospital as a precautionary measure. The guy (driver) was also banged up but he was totally conscience and just said he was in minor pain.
I'm just glad I got out of the car when I did and that my legs are still good enough to jump a concrete divider in 1 second or else I would have been seriously injured or killed.
I'm pretty depressed about the car, but its just a car and not my life, or someone else's life. I'm going to try to dig up most of the reciepts for the engine build and hopefully get reimbursed for some of it.
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BTW pictures? Sounds like your WS6 is hurt pretty bad.

Jon
Here is a couple pics of the aftermath.











