Sometimes bad luck is that close

SDE

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Driving 55. Being passed by a car. Check the rear view to see if another car is going to pass when I hear a bang. Look left and the hood has popped up on the car passing me. They continued the pass and I slowed down and they moved back into the right lane and then over to the shoulder. It was a 20 something woman. By time I stopped and got back to her car she was out of her car and on her cell phone. I put the hood back down and re attached the two hooks that they had used to hold the hood down.(failed red neck engineering) I told her she was good to go (windshield had and area that she could still see out)and that she had handled it very well. Later I realized that if she had panicked , cranked the wheel to the right, while I was looking in the mirror, It could have ended badly for both of us.
 
Hope it doesn't come up again,and,someone gets hurt or damages happens,then she remembers who "fixed it" for her, ands gets her a TELEVISION LAWYER".......................just saying
 
Glad all turned out OK. I was driving south through Cincinnati on I-75 a few years ago when an older white pickup passed me in a lane to the left. About 4 car lengths ahead of me, I heard bang, and his hood flew up and probably smashed his windshield. All he could do was coast several lanes to the right blindly seeing nothing ahead of him. That's a scary situation to be in.
 
Have we all become so stinkin paranoid that no one can offer any help. Holy BALLS!! People need to take some responsibility for their actions, and quit playing Chicken Little. The sky isn't falling all the time.
Comments like this where you are telling everyone that they are going to get sued just irritates me to no end!
 
Big Ed, please post your picture. If I see you in need of help on the side of the road I darn sure don't want to stop for you and get sued.
 
In certain circumstances you can be arrested in AZ for failing to stop and render aid - and the injured person is not supposed to be able to sue you, but the lawyers have found some ways around that so they will sue you.

I'm getting too old to render aid anyway, so I let the young folks take care of that.
 
I still remember as a child leaving town in our old C60 Chevy travelling about 40 MPH. The hood flew up and both hood springs popped out. As we neared to a stop the hood slammed back down. We were only able to find one of those springs. We used a pipe to hold the hood up after that. The hood had never flown up before and never flew up again. Im sure it was a sight for the cars meeting us on the road.
 

A few years ago I was traveling west on local interstate. Met a east bound car in opposite lane. It was just at the end of a bridge over a river. Jut as we came abreast I happened to glance over at him as his hood came loose, broke off, and flew over the car and off the bridge. I think he kept going, don't know if he came back for his hood.

KEH
 
Somebody always has to start this nonsense about lawsuits, what insurance covers, etc.
Try this: if your hood flies up, and causes a collision or a near miss, it would most likely be considered an ACCIDENT. Most judges would not allow it in court as being frivolous, and would dismiss it before it went too far. Most insurance would cover the damage sustained by any other motorist.

So, therefore, it would be appreciated if you could simply not pee on the charcoal here while dinner is on the grill, OK?
 
(quoted from post at 19:41:45 04/25/15) Somebody always has to start this nonsense about lawsuits, what insurance covers, etc.
Try this: if your hood flies up, and causes a collision or a near miss, it would most likely be considered an ACCIDENT. Most judges would not allow it in court as being frivolous, and would dismiss it before it went too far. Most insurance would cover the damage sustained by any other motorist.

So, therefore, it would be appreciated if you could simply not pee on the charcoal here while dinner is on the grill, OK?

Actually not true. As the insured you have a duty to maintain your vehicle in a safe manner. Hood latch system broken and not repaired properly and can result in a claim being denied. Then the darned shyster lawyers kick in. If she knew who helped her and it happened again causing an accident the person who helped out and secured the hood without proper repaid could also be held liable. Unfortunately we have become sue happy society. And if an insurance company can legally get out of paying a claim they will. And in the case of sexier injury or death you can bet a judge isn't going to toss it as frivolious. They have terms for it like " gross negligence" and "reckless endangerment.

Rick
 
Some 20 years ago I was flowing an old grey pickup I was driving a tow truck one car on the ramp and one trailing behind. I started to see his right rear wheel shake within a few seconds the entire wheel drum and axel came out bounced right in front of me when I say bounced it was up there and it continued thru the 4 lanes of traffic 2 going one way and 2 going the other. Surprisingly it didn't hit a thing of course the truck stopped abruptly and I came very close to rear-ending him. I still think about what could have happened had it hit the windshield.
 

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