Crash: My Yaris vs. Dodge Ram

[j8smith]

In the Blue corner, my 2006 LE+B 5dr with only 11 000 km on the clock.
In the Grey corner, a 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab 4x4.(weighing close to 3x as much as the yaris).

The Story. The driver of the Dodge was lost. She pulled off onto a side street, made a U-turn, then came back out onto the main street without looking. Right into my path. I had just enough time to touch the brakes, then I hit square on her drivers front wheel, spinning her out of the way. The roads were partly snow covered, had they been dry It would have been like hitting at brick wall at 50km/h.

The result: the steering and a-arms on the dodge were fubar, as well as a caved in door and fender. My poor yaris wasn't so lucky. It dosen't look that bad in the pic but all front bodywork is toast. most of the plastic just shattered due to the -25C weather. The rad support is bent, all crush structures crushed, and both left and right frame members are tweaked to the left. And the airbags didn't even go off.

She admitted it was her fault, so everytimg is covered on my end, but I was Shocked when I got the estimate today. $5200 just in parts and materials, totaling $9200 including labour. And they don't want to right it off! I'll try to scan the estimate and post it, as it has a complete break down of all the parts prices.

Jay