Got rear-ended!!!

[MPC Motorsports]

The title says it all. I was at lunch last week with my Wife. We were stopped on a four-lane street waiting to make a left hand turn into a restaurant parking lot when, all of a sudden...BAM!!!

My Yaris was struck from behind by a 1997 Chrysler Town & Country van. The driver said that the brakes did not work...yeah right.

Doesn't look like much, but it's over $3,100 worth of damage.

It's hard to tell in the pic, but if you look at the quarter panel there is a buckle just below where the roofline goes up. The right rear of the car was pushed out 6mm and down 5mm according to the shop.



The bumper cover, the plastic bumper absorbers behind the bumper, the rear body panel, the trunk latch and some trunk trim will be replaced and the quarter panel and decklid repaired and painted.

My Wife and I suffered a bit of whiplash and, while getting better, are still a little stiff and sore. And, while the car is in the shop, a nasty door ding is being repaired at a cost of $365 to me. A big dent that chipped the paint to the primer. It will be like new in a week or so.

My rental is a Kia Rondo.
Like I said, only a week or so.

Marc