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FYI, this is going to be a long read, so you TL;DR guys can just skip to the pics if you want.......
On Saturday night Nicole (GF) and I went to a wedding for a friend of her's that was out in the sticks in Southwick, MA. On our way home around 11pm I took back roads so that I didn't have to back track through Mass to get back to CT. The road we were on I had driven maybe three or four times and it's very rural, mostly tobacco fields then over a mountain, then more tobacco fields. Just before going over the mountain there was a very gradual right hand turn, Nicole and I were just talking, listening to some music with the roof open and I looked at her for a split second and when I looked up it was already too late. That gradual right hand didn't give way to the two mile long straight that went over the mountain, it gave way to a 90* right hand turn just before it. I was doing (myself and the cops estimated) around 45-50 when I discovered that I was inevitably going off the left hand side of the road. All I could do was mash the brakes, but by the time I did I was already going off and because of all the rain we had last week the ground was really soft and all the car did was slide. First into a small drainage ditch that was about a foot and a half deep and maybe three feet wide, then through a small vegetable garden headed directly for a small shed that was already on Nicole's side of the car and because of the trajectory the car was traveling, there was no way I was going to steer the car to the right of it and the only place I had to go was to the left of it and immediately to the right of the tree line. So I guess I steered INTO the understeer, if that makes sense and the car missed the shed but hit a small birch tree that was about 6-8" around almost dead center in the front, deploying the airbags and stopping the car.
Remarkably, I was the one freaking out and Nicole was the one calming me down. I immediately called the police and they were there shortly after. I was honestly expecting MAYBE one or two cops and an ambulance, but there were about six or seven police cars, an EMT in an Expedition with some bad *** LED spotlights on it, and an Ambulance. So I guess the Town of Suffield Connecticut rolls deeper than I thought, but I'm glad they got there as quickly as they did.
By the time Nicole and I were done getting checked out, the EMT in the Expedition with the bad *** LED spot lights had one end of a strap hooked up to the birch tree that was now under my car and the other end to the push bar on the front of the truck, put it in reverse and yanked it out so the flat bed could get in there to pull it out from where it was wedged.
Luckily Nicole's sister didn't live far and she and her boyfriend gave and got us and took us home. I spent the rest of the night replaying the tape in my head trying to figure out how this happened. I have done a lot of stupid **** in my life when I was younger but this was nothing like that. I wasn't speeding, I was paying attention accept for that split second, I know the limitations of my car and NEVER have I even come close to losing control of that car. I still have no explanation other than the fact that it was just her time, and hopefully the end of The Curse. I am 100% without a doubt getting the next car blessed by the way.
Met the insurance adjuster this morning and saw the car for the first time after the accident in the daylight, and this is the aftermath..............
I am very grateful that Nicole and I walked away from this unscathed with the exception of a couple airbag burns and some soreness and that for just once, The Curse that was this car gave something back instead of just taking.
On to bigger and better things........BUT....I'll still be sticking around here as the NE Chapter Leader.
(Sorry for the book)
On Saturday night Nicole (GF) and I went to a wedding for a friend of her's that was out in the sticks in Southwick, MA. On our way home around 11pm I took back roads so that I didn't have to back track through Mass to get back to CT. The road we were on I had driven maybe three or four times and it's very rural, mostly tobacco fields then over a mountain, then more tobacco fields. Just before going over the mountain there was a very gradual right hand turn, Nicole and I were just talking, listening to some music with the roof open and I looked at her for a split second and when I looked up it was already too late. That gradual right hand didn't give way to the two mile long straight that went over the mountain, it gave way to a 90* right hand turn just before it. I was doing (myself and the cops estimated) around 45-50 when I discovered that I was inevitably going off the left hand side of the road. All I could do was mash the brakes, but by the time I did I was already going off and because of all the rain we had last week the ground was really soft and all the car did was slide. First into a small drainage ditch that was about a foot and a half deep and maybe three feet wide, then through a small vegetable garden headed directly for a small shed that was already on Nicole's side of the car and because of the trajectory the car was traveling, there was no way I was going to steer the car to the right of it and the only place I had to go was to the left of it and immediately to the right of the tree line. So I guess I steered INTO the understeer, if that makes sense and the car missed the shed but hit a small birch tree that was about 6-8" around almost dead center in the front, deploying the airbags and stopping the car.
Remarkably, I was the one freaking out and Nicole was the one calming me down. I immediately called the police and they were there shortly after. I was honestly expecting MAYBE one or two cops and an ambulance, but there were about six or seven police cars, an EMT in an Expedition with some bad *** LED spotlights on it, and an Ambulance. So I guess the Town of Suffield Connecticut rolls deeper than I thought, but I'm glad they got there as quickly as they did.
By the time Nicole and I were done getting checked out, the EMT in the Expedition with the bad *** LED spot lights had one end of a strap hooked up to the birch tree that was now under my car and the other end to the push bar on the front of the truck, put it in reverse and yanked it out so the flat bed could get in there to pull it out from where it was wedged.
Luckily Nicole's sister didn't live far and she and her boyfriend gave and got us and took us home. I spent the rest of the night replaying the tape in my head trying to figure out how this happened. I have done a lot of stupid **** in my life when I was younger but this was nothing like that. I wasn't speeding, I was paying attention accept for that split second, I know the limitations of my car and NEVER have I even come close to losing control of that car. I still have no explanation other than the fact that it was just her time, and hopefully the end of The Curse. I am 100% without a doubt getting the next car blessed by the way.
Met the insurance adjuster this morning and saw the car for the first time after the accident in the daylight, and this is the aftermath..............
I am very grateful that Nicole and I walked away from this unscathed with the exception of a couple airbag burns and some soreness and that for just once, The Curse that was this car gave something back instead of just taking.
On to bigger and better things........BUT....I'll still be sticking around here as the NE Chapter Leader.
(Sorry for the book)
holy sh!t Justin! 
. I hope for the best for you and your girlfriend. You are a great person. Time to lay the curse to rest.
