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Old 10-27-2006, 04:51 AM
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Friend of mine totalled his tacoma yesterday, hit the back of a porto potty truck, he was going maybe 75 and the truck was going 5mph trying to turn into a driveway on a back road near my house i was behind him but wasnt going that fast. Here are some pics of it, despite what you all may think he acutally got out of the car himself through the window, and he got out of the hospital within 3 hours. JUst a word of cautionWEAR YOUR SEAT BELTS







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I bet that scared the crap out of the porta potty driver. Pun intended...............
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I bet that scared the crap out of the porta potty driver. Pun intended...............
yeah it is a poopie job to have
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your friend is very lucky!
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yeah i know, when he hit the truck he hit it on the right side and that actually spun the truck around on 3 wheels, he spun him off the road, when i saw it i was like oh great another replay of last week, a friend of mine died last week when a drunk driver hit him. But he just climbed out the window as fast as he could
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Old 10-27-2006, 03:21 PM
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Glad to hear that he is ok.
Thank god for Airbags and Seatbelts. Without the airbags, he never would have it onto to 3 wheels.
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Old 10-28-2006, 12:59 AM
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why was he going that fast jsut asking?

glad to hear he's ok! a litttle bondo and sheet metal and i think it will be good as new
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Speed can kill
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he's lucky to be alive
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omg, look at the steering wheel!!!
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Originally Posted by pinoy_tC
omg, look at the steering wheel!!!
It was the steering wheel that killed most people in head on collisions before they were made to collapse. This one sure did its job!!
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Old 10-28-2006, 05:01 PM
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he was in a hurry to pick up his brother and go to a class it was around 1:50 and he had a class at 2, yeah the steering wheel did its job, this wasnt head on it was a rear end
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looks really bad
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yeah looks bad but he was out of the hospital in like 3 hours maybe even less
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what a stunna .... 75 mph ? very few freeways allow that kind of speed in california much less city streets i hope he learned his lesson by turning that tacoma into a taco ...
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it wasnt freeway it was a back country road by my house, no cops ever there, and its relatively safe and straight street to do that, just that the porto potty truck was stopped in the middle of the street
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Originally Posted by rrimportracer
it wasnt freeway it was a back country road by my house, no cops ever there, and its relatively safe and straight street to do that, just that the porto potty truck was stopped in the middle of the street
I'm glad you put that in there.
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...and the rims are fine! *bow* Thank you, thank you... for my next trick.....
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Old 11-16-2006, 07:35 PM
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actually one of the rims got damaged on the passenger rear, got filled and scratched up with dirt as you can see he went into the little ditch also got dirt in his exhaust pipe
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